Server scalability and Oxbury Publishing.

Design, Micro Blog, Techie March 12th, 2009

Currently Hive Minds Hosting is hosting Oxbury Publishing, including their other web properties. As the company business is growing, and it is expending in to customized reports and articles, delivered via newsletter, I know that the current server will not be able to handle the load of newsletter campaigns that are going to take place. I’ve spend today consulting the company owners about renting a dedicated server and moving their operations to a machine, which only serves their needs.

I have also selected phpList as the mail list management solution. Once I have configured their new server, I will be installing and configuring…

Email Signatures – I Hate Them.

Around the World, Critic's Realm, Design, Techie January 20th, 2009

email-signatureI f-ing hate email signatures. For most part they are useless and only take more space than the actual email content is. In my time of receiving emails and providing customer support I have come across a variety of email signatures and other text and image email appendages that are completely unnecessary. It is rare for me to come across an email signature that is simple and small.

People use company logos in addition to their names, emails, alternate emails, phones, mobiles and fax numbers, as well as toll free customer support numbers. To those we corporate addresses, social network addresses,…

Invites… Get your Invites here!

Announcements, Invites November 18th, 2008

I have created an Invites request page where you can view my reviews of various web sites and services on the web that require invites to become a member, or did required one at the time of the review. As I spend a lot of time on the Internet, I register on many websites and thus come in possession of invites, which I am more than glad to share with others interested to test the web site in question as well.

You can request an invite via two methods;

  1. You can leave me a comment on the blog post about the website you…

Valve being bought by Google. Please say it isn’t so.

Critic's Realm, Entertainment, Techie, Today I learned, gaming September 17th, 2008

Valve being bought by Google! That is a horrible thought, but there are number of web sites which are reporting this. Here are a few links:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/17/google-valve
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/google-to-acquire-valve/

I decided to send Valve a quick email, and I think that everyone that is agains this happenign should do as well.

Good morning,

TechCrunch and TheInquirer are reporting a potential acquisition of Valve by Google.

Please say it isn’t so. I’ve been a fan of you company and games since you guys first started. I have been following your company and enjoyed your products all these years. An acquisition by google might seem like a financially good…

Google’s Chrome browser

Critic's Realm, Techie September 2nd, 2008

magitam: Google’s Non-launch of Chrome – do you think we should hold Google accountable for their broken promise? http://life.magitam.org.uk/2008/09/02/google-too-big-to-keep-its-promise/

Google has decided to create their own browser, dubbed Chrome. It is open source based on WebKit and powered by Google Gears. Another browser amongst many others. I don’t particularly care for most of Google’s products, thus I most likely won’t even test drive this product. I think, though, that Chrome will gain popularity, and it will be fast, very fast for couple of reasons.

First reason being – people, for some reason, are just crazy about Google and what it has to offer….

Twitter tool plugin: finally doing what it should have!

Design, Micro Blog, Techie August 21st, 2008

Yayeee, finally the Twitter tool plugin for Wordpress, by Alex King, has been updated to add the options of being able to choose the digest post time. The plugin is still in beta, but it still works, and I am happy with it.

The only reason why I found out that there is a new version of the plugin is because I want to tweet (Micro post.) but I want my tweets (Micro posts.) archived. The only way to have the tweets archived is to use the twitter tool plugin, but it does daily digests. I find the post formats some what unappealing, and I…

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