Any site that receives billions and billions of unique hits an hour is going to have performance issues. Having that much traffic is tough to manage. Lately this site has been loading slowly for me. Even with wp-cache and MySQL cache, its lagging. I am beginning to think this server has hit its peak. The server I have over at MediaTemple is “blazing” fast. Granted it’s currently receiving 10 times less traffic, but it is handling the current load perfectly. So I am going to move WDP over to that box and see what happens.

Once upon a time this took 48 - 72 hours and was a major headache. I can now move the site with 0 downtime and the entire process will take less than 30 minutes. I’m like a magician withouth a creepy blank stare and ridonkulously hot girlfriend.

Besides fixing the tag cloud which has been broken for several months, I added a graffiti wall. Drop your name and a comment to leave your mark on the WDP Wall.

Making the user experience better is one of the most important things at WDP. That and the fact that you all agree with 100% of what I say. If you scroll to the bottom of the blog you will notice that after the 12th post, the blog automatically, through the magic of AJAX (JSON and JQuery to be exact), loads the next set of posts. This is known as the infinite blog scroll or “the blog that never ends.” There is one known bug that I am hoping my crack team of coders will solve asafp.

Let me know what you think. Go tag (old school tag) up the wall and enjoy the (new school) tag cloud.

• Bourbon
• Panda Dance
• Technology
• Drinking
• DVR
• Quotes
• SEO
• I’m Voting Republican
• Gasobe
• WordPress
• How it should be
• Links
• Currently Reading
• Netflix
• Cool Kid
• The Dark Knight
• Weekend Top 5
• MGMT
• New Music
• Numnah
• Weekly To
• Shoebacca
• I hate Taxonomy
• Damien Rice
• John McCain can’t remember what he said
• Slow Blogging
• Entourage
• Lists
• Space Roach
• WDP Updates
• Wish List
• Gambling
• Spelling Bee Champ
• Trade Lamar
• Concerts
• Phuked
• AJAX
• Gust Bloggers
• Obama
• Weekly Top 5
• Radiohead
• Song of the Momemt
• deprecated
• Rage
• Crunk
• Triple Crown
• Real Douche of the Day
• No More Phone
• Chappelle
• Flags are cool
• Kings of Leon
• Politics
• Hip Hop
• Hova
• Blogs
• Food
• Coldplay
• New Rules
• Too many Buffalo
• 10 Worst Facebook Status Updates
• Web 2.0
• Humor
• is_home()
• RNC Protest
• Phuking beeps
• Do Something
• Odom for Artest?
• COD4
• Penny
• Tattoo 9
• Hottness
• I owe tmobile how much
• NBA
• BlackBerry Bold
• IRS
• Computers
• The OC
• Tag Cloud
• Basktball
• Guess Blogger
• Egg Gun
• Oh Shit
• Guest Bloggers
• Poems
• Wu-Tang
• KFed
• Repub
• Progress
• Bluetooth
• USA Olympic Basketball
• BlackBerry
• Blogs can hurt
• Saved by the Bell
• TV
• Music
• Death Cab
• Car Audio
• Wasting Money
• Bullshit
• Random Rant
• Bill Maher
• Holla
• Aires Spears
• Ubuntu
• Sportsbetting
• Lyrics
• The Roots
• Sex on Fire
• George Carlin
• Updates
• NBA Finals 08
• Vote 08
• Nolan is the best director
• Art
• Football
• Lakers
• Best Of
• The best concert ever
• No More CA Co-op DEA Raids
• Tattoo
• Vegas
• Fake Plastic Trees
• Taxes
• CNN’
• Guns
• Dark Night
• Yahoo
• LA Under Construction
• Celebrity
• Hip Hop is Dead
• Religion
• Movies
• McSame
• Hannah Montana
• Verse
• Numbnut
• Basketball
• Programming
• Books
• Fiscal Conservative
• Tmobile
• Zack Morris is a Douche
• Warren G

Within the next few days (possibly weeks) I will be making some changes to WDP. One of the most exciting changes will be the addition of guest bloggers. If you want to partake in the blogging experience and want to post on your favorite blog, let me know.

Spaceroach.com is officially the property of What Da Phuk! Well not officially, I still have to do that whole transfer domain thing. Unfortunately, sacrifices had to be made for this to happen. As a blogger, I am constantly struggling with “should I post that? Can I say that? Is this too far?”

As we (bloggers) progress as writers we learn the limits and dance along the line. I know I have personally affected others in the past. I truly hope they were all hot college girls that immediately disrobed and had a pillow fight. But unfortunately the reality is you can hurt people with something as stoopid as a blog.

So while I continue to offend the masses on What Da Phuk! please note I have some pretty big plans for spaceroach.com.

Space Rooooaaaaaach…dot com…coming soon!

I finally did it. While waiting for some ranking reports to finish, I finished the upgrade of Wordpress 2.5. Holy-phuking-shit it is much better. Not just the back-end. I have noticed the front-end (the website) loads much faster too.

Since this is an upgrade, I upgraded the design…slightly. I changed the font, font-size and link color in the posts. I am still messing with sIFR for the post titles. I want to have some calligraphy headlines. I am also working on a new social bookmarking plugin.

So enjoy…I know I will.

Ok, ok, this is now my second time installing Wordpress 2.5. It is soooooo much faster. Time to upgrade. Can’t wait any longer. Must do it this weekend.

I just used WordPress 2.5 in a live environment. Holy shit they sure did fix the load times in the admin. Unless I am completely missing something, the Dashboard is not customizable. I must be missing some settings link, cause all I can change is the RSS feed. Anyway, to quote Josh Axelman, “this shit is ridonkulous, it’s the bomb shit, leroy jenkem. knibb high football rules!”

After reading the aritcle by Dougal Campbell, Upgrade or Else, I now have no choice but to upgrade within the next week.

WDP is getting a new home. The time has come. A brand new building. It opened Jan 08. I am the 14th person to move in. Trying to figure out which Plasma (or DLP) is most definitely a great problem to have. It’s a refreshing change. It’s pretty crazy how quickly the pendulum can swing from good to bad. It can happen over night.

The past 15th months have been a humbling journey. I carried my spoon through the good, the bad and the really bad…and the really really really bad (no plumbing, construction and screaming birds). I made it. I carried my spoon. I spilt some water. But I made it.

Focus. Believe. Resilience.

È il momento di ubriachezza. Raccontaci le ragazze oltre a venire, il decollo e ottenere la loro abiti nel mio letto. Stiamo per fissare il tetto sul fuoco in questa casa.

For those of you that are interested – in the very near future, I will be writing technology based blogs on another blog. I will provide all of the details as soon as we are ready to start publishing. The posts will mostly cover Web 2.0 topics such as: Social Media, SEO, AJAX, JSON, Comet, E-Commerce, CSS 3.0 and Blogging itself.

There is a lot to cover and a lot of time I find that WDP is not the best outlet for these posts. It’s tough to follow “Bryan Spears is the father of (sister) Jaime Lynn’s baby” with a post on using JavaScript to create equal column heights in a pure CSS XHTML layout. So we’ll keep talking about irreverent satire and I’ll move the serious posts to a serious place.

The WordPress 2.5 preview just a mini preview of what’s to come.

Holla! Can I get amen?

I have created a photo gallery dedicated to my trip. If you look at the top of the page, over towards the right, you will see a link sitting next to Home. It says Dallas. You can also access it by going to www.whatdaphuk.com/dallas/

I just started taking pics. I will continue to post new ones so check back often.