Happy Memorial Day!
Cheers!
technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
Our father who art in Philly. Hockey be thy name. Thy will be done. The cup will be won. On ice, as well as in the stands. Give us this day our hockey sticks. And forgive us our penalties, as we forgive those who cross-check against us, Lead us not into elimination. But deliver us to victory. In the name of the fans,…Lord Stanley, and in the name of the Flyers. Amen.
I realize the “prayer” above has been around for quite some time and adopted over time and it wasn’t written by me.
Good luck to the Philadelphia Flyers!
Game 1: Flyers at Blackhawks, Saturday, May 29, 8:00 p.m. (NBC)
Game 2: Flyers at Blackhawks, Monday, May 31, 8:00 p.m. (NBC)
Game 3: Blackhawks at Flyers, Wednesday, June 2, 8:00 p.m. (Versus)
Game 4: Blackhawks at Flyers, Friday, June 4, 8:00 p.m. (Versus)
Game 5: Flyers at Blackhawks, Sunday, June 6, 8:00 p.m. (NBC)*
Game 6: Blackhawks at Flyers, Wednesday, June 9, 8:00 p.m. (NBC)*
Game 7: Flyers at Blackhawks, Friday, June 11, 8:00 p.m. (NBC)*
I had a little nostalgia on Saturday when Google placed a copy of the game Pac-Man on their homepage. I grew up playing Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man so it brought back a whole lot of memories. I have very fond memories of the Atari 2600, it was an amazing piece of technology for it’s time. I can probably attribute the Atari 2600 as one of the initial catalysts for my interest in Technology and Computer Science. I remember games like Pitfall, Adventure, Pac-Man, Q*bert and Frogger.
I also remember wasting away hour upon hour playing Head-to-Head Football. I can remember playing against my dad and god father on many an occasion. It really wasn’t until I was introduced to the Commodore PET that I really became excited in technology. I can remember spending hours typing in hundreds of lines of QBASIC code, the introduction of the tape drive allowed users to load and save programs to tape. I was able to convince my parents to buy me a Commodore 64 which was my first personal computer.
What was the first computer that you ever used or owned?
Cheers!
I’m truly amazed at how fast the time flies. I’ve been blogging for 2 1/2 years now and it’s been a very exciting adventure. It all started back in October 2007 when I created an account on Blogger. In July 2008 I decided to branch out by purchasing my own domain name. At the same time I converted from Blogger to WordPress, hosting it on a Go Daddy shared web hosting account. At the time Go Daddy was a convenient one stop shopping purchase, for both domains and web hosting.
I’m now coming up on the renewal for Go Daddy and I’m considering upgrading to a virtual private server (VPS).
Why? In my role with my current employer I work with hundreds (almost thousands) of servers, both virtual and physical. It’s always been a little depressing to know what’s possible from a real server and then settling for what I can personally afford with this being a hobby. In addition to my wanting more control over the environment I’ve seen a significant growth in traffic to both my blog and the discussion forums which are hosted on the account.
Over the past 6 months the traffic to my blog is peaking daily at around 1,000 page loads which is pretty decent in my opinion for the amount of material I have posted and the narrow focus of that material. The traffic to the discussion forums have really started to ramp up over the past seven months.
As both of those endeavors have grown I’ve noticed the response time of the site go up. I’m the first to recognize that while some of the reason is the traffic a large portion is also the number of features I’ve added to the site over the past 2 years. Thankfully the little bit of advertising I’ve been running has helped defray the current hosting costs (thanks for the support!). With that in mind I’m considering stepping up to a VPS solution in order to provide a significant performance boost and provide a platform for future projects.
Anyone have any recommendations on VPS web hosting? I’m probably looking at a budget of $30-$50/monthly, let’s not forget it’s just a hobby and I have no intention of giving up my day job! (I’m told my grammar is terrible and I need to spend more time proof reading).
I was considering RimuHosting based on a blog post from Colin McNamara, not directly related but anyone with that name must be smart ;).
Cheers!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone out there. It’s amazing how fast the time goes by, yet another year in the past. If you’re looking to listen to some traditional and folk music straight from Dublin, Ireland browse over to www.liveireland.com.