For those of you who are interested in social bookmarking, you’d be pleased to know that reddit now has an ‘reddit’ for Sri Lanka.
Please note that you will have to be a reddit user to submit links - registering on reddit is free and just takes a few seconds.
Please go ahead and check it out: http://srilanka.reddit.com
January 26th, 2008
If you are a dreamhost customer you might want to check your credit card/bank statement. A glitch in billing means dreamhost customers were charged various amounts from $200 - up to $4000 for their accounts..
Dreamhost is working to fix the problem and refund victims, if you are a customer I suggest you check your credit card/bank statement as you may experience overdraft fees, etc.
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/01/15/billing-issues/
(more there but page is down now due to digg etc)
January 15th, 2008
Have you ever noticed how fast your PC is after a fresh OS/Software install? How the OS seems crisp and fast, and applications load up almost instantly?
And how… after a few months of use, your PC seems to slow down to a crawl? How even booting up seems to take forever, and how launching the simplest applications causes your PC to struggle? Well I’ve always wondered what causes this ‘Windows Rot” phenomenon.
Continue Reading September 8th, 2007
Some time yesterday night, I found out that my monkey wasn’t running. Apparently, diggers found this amusing, so my site was featured, for a fourth time this week, on the front page of digg, bringing this weeks unique visitor count to something over 250,000 (excluding the large number of people who couldn’t get through due to the server glitches).
Continue Reading August 19th, 2007
So a server glitch (file permissions) meant that 99% of the traffic coming to this site over the past 48 hours was unable to get through. For the moment things are stable, though I’m still getting a lot of traffic.
Continue Reading August 17th, 2007
As of today evening I’m somewhat unable to log into skype. Are any of the local ISP’s blocking it? or are Skype experiencing any problems?
Continue Reading August 16th, 2007
This site experienced a surge of traffic (more than 50,000 unique visitors) over the past 48 hours, as well as some downtime (especially yesterday), thankfully now things are returning to normal.
Continue Reading August 15th, 2007
I can’t remember school being this much fun for me…
Continue Reading August 9th, 2007
Credit: Photo is by Chris Danals, National Science Foundation
Continue Reading August 5th, 2007
Coming soon, my article on how to turn a 200MHz PC into an encrypted fileserver. Or a really decorative wastepaper basket. Whichever comes first.
In the mean time, here’s an amusing advert I ‘borrowed’ from some Swiss bike maker:
Continue Reading July 12th, 2007
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