We use to have 8 or 16cpus there. I can’t remember which, but it was definitly more than 1 cpu.

And why this is important is because we are on shared hosting, and this IP address hosts like 397 websites. Case in point:

My guess is somethings happened to the usual server, and they’ve had to put the whole system up in some old beige box that they had lieing around. They’ve also lost all my cronjob entrys, so my lifestream hasn’t updated in a week. Cron’s take like 10minutes to run now, when they used to run in like 15 seconds.

Don’t host with a cheap NZ webhosting company!

EDIT: Case in point: The email which gives all the feedback from everytime CRON runs, used to put the servers name as “SARAH” and now it is “EMMA” so it is assuredly a new server. A much worse new server.

Commenting is now up. Still so much to do.

More content to follow
-Daniel

Spoiler warning for everyone in NZ watching Doctor Who on broadcast tv.

Have watched the final episode of series 6 of Doctor Who. Absolutely bloody brilliant. Loved it. This isn’t a real review just a few quick notes about it.

First off what a shit name this episode has. With previous punchy names as “A good man goes to war” and “let’s kill hitler” this title seems to lack. Especially for such a major arc ending episode.

I think using the tesellecta to get out of the doctor’s death was a little surprise. I like most people thought the doctor would have used a flesh copy of himself to get him out of his inevitable death.

Rory is still awesome. Amy saying that the eye patch would lick in any second, and Rory saying it already had was super cool.

This could have quite easily been a double parter, and I think the last ten minutes was a bit rushed. They could have easily cut an episode from the second half of the season.

I still feel slightly cheated out of the main arc of the season, the doctors death. I feel like using the tesellecta to get out of it could have used a LOT more selling, and it doesn’t fully explain everything perfectly.

Lastly I love how the stirrings about the silence and what exactly is going on is going to continue into Matt Smith’s third season as the doctor. I really enjoyed the stronger arc based episodes this season, and an on going arc between seasons.

Bring on the Christmas episode. Doctor goes to Narnia I believe!

Disco Inferno & I

Chris Judge & I

Avery Brooks & I

ARCHIVE:Originally posted on old blog.

It’s been a while since I updated this website. I don’t think anyone really knows it is here. My life, and my awesome child has meant that while I had a whole lot of stuff planned to talk about here I really haven’t had anytime to do it, and this site has become pretty dormant.

However some one has noticed that this website exists. Or really that this domain exists and is going to be expiring at the end of October. Last week in the mail, in my home in Christchurch, New Zealand I received a snail-mail letter from an American company called “Domain Registration Solutions”. Here’s a copy of the letter:

The company offered to become my registrar, and offered me a rate of AU$45 a year for this service. They didn’t specify why I would want to go with them, instead of my current registrar (godaddy). That didn’t state any services that they offer which godaddy does not.

Such a great deal AU$45 which roughly translates to NZ$54. Compared to godaddy, which a years domain registration costs full retail of US$11.44 (no one ever pays full retail at godaddy). That translated in my local currency is roughly NZ$15.75. I’m still at a loss why I would pay 250% more for my registration than currently, with no more services included. What’s more I would be dealing with a company I have never heard with, which has no problem spamming people with domains expiring, after grabbing their addressing information from their domains registration information. And a company that would act on this sending a snail mail letter half way around the world.
I think I’ll be staying where I am. And I think it might be time to look at anonymous domain registration.