Last month I was 2 blog posts short of 50. This month is 1/3 over and I am 2 blog posts short of 3. Don’t worry, I’ve got plenty to talk about. I was in NYC for a week. I went to the Belmont Stakes. I represented the Lakeshow on the east coast! I’m deathly ill right now so it’s kind of difficult to post anything. Stay tuned…I’ll be back in full force shortly. I’m gonna go drink half a bottle of windex…I hear it cures everything.
“here we go…here we go…”
So I guess that was the plan…release 3 completely terrible tracks and the 4th one won’t sound so bad. Wait, I think this is the 5th one. There were “Relapse”, “Crack a Bottle”, “We Made You”, “3am” and now this. I think this track is called “Old Times Sake.”
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Love him or completely hate him…from 96 – 2002 this guy was one of the best lyricists on the plant. He would murder anyone in a freestyle battle. But his financial success catalyst a brutal decent with each album, turning him into a TRL seeking, formulaic gimmick. I guess no one told him TRL is over.
In 5 tracks, he has not once resembled a human. Marshall Mathers??? He’s light years from Slim Shady’s alter ego. Fuck Relapse. Hit me up when he drops Sober.
So far this shit gets no blunts. I seriously do not understand the production and the voice. I’m tired of this Weird Al shit. Marshall, Slim, Eminem, is this it? Are you done? Let me know…I’ll be listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album.
Editors Note: In the track “3am”, Eminem references Hannah Montana. The WDP counsel has yet to convine to detemine if this acceptable. They are still busy taking care of the chevy chase situation.
I spent the better part of tonight and the Lakers game (nice win over Golden State) installing and configuring a brand new server. The server that has been running WDP is almost 2 years old. It did its job and I don’t hate on it, but it definitely wasn’t the fastest box in the world. In terms of servers it’s a ford focus.
It’s Lamborghini time! This new Quad Core Xeon with 4GB of RAM, 2 250GB drives running RAID1 is screaming FAST. It’s ridonkulous how fast this box is. Page load, image load, file upload, video streaming…this box phuking rawks!!! But that is not all…
With a brand new server it was time to upgrade WordPress (the content management system that powers this blog) to the latest version. WordPress 2.7 is pretty much a complete overhaul from 2.6. Why they didn’t call it 3.0…who the phuk knows…and that’s a different post all together. So a brand new server + brand new code = phuking FAST!
Wait…there is more. I don’t have apache (the most popular webserver software in the world) installed. What Da Phuk! is finally and proudly running LightTPD. I have been messing with Lighttpd, the ultra fast, super light (footprint) webserver, for the past year. It’s a favorite of sites like youtube, isohunt, wikipedia and meebo. It doesn’t load unnecessary modules by default — unlike it’s popular predicessor. One of the best things about lighttpd is its utilization of fast_cgi for PHP parsing. In other words, lighttpd (aka lighty) is phuking awesome!
So…brand new server + brand new code + super phuking awesome webserver software = 
What it do! Lakers 2009
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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.