So, I'm helping out my partner with a site that runs under software that starts with W. You all know what it is, marketing says it is "better" for the beginner. That may very well be so, but if you don't give the beginner better tools they will never get any better, thus keeping the web at the level of myspace. Remember that mess of html pages? Well, that software that starts with W is the same thing, just shinier.

Drupal gives you better tools all around.

Upgraded the nginx version to 1.0.10 and while testing noticed a very bad timeout with the php fpm backend. Since it was well past midnight and it didnt appear to be causing an issue with the Drupal 6.x sites, I decided to get some sleep and put the task of resolving the issue in the background.

Finally upgraded (yea I'm slow). Spent some time writing a custom theme for the site, hope you like it. Little did I know that my choice of colors would be a foretelling of the first loss of the OSU Buckeye American Football team to the University of Michigan American Football team in something like 7 years, or so says the corporate media. I'm not an American Football fan so I could really care less, but I do think it is funny.

Preparing for upgrade to Drupal 7.0.

Finally put in place the new web server. I think it works pretty well

Below are the stats for linuxcolumbus.

Document Path: /
Document Length: 23524 bytes

Concurrency Level: 4
Time taken for tests: 3.968 seconds
Complete requests: 500
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 12007500 bytes
HTML transferred: 11762000 bytes
Requests per second: 126.02 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 31.740 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 7.935 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

From the BBC:

Apple has released official advice for iPhone 4 owners to overcome the problem of the device losing signal when held by the lower left corner.

Steve Jobs responded to a query about the problem from one owner by saying: "Just avoid holding it in that way."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8761240.stm

I have a term for stuff like this: Junk.

Got to configure a CradlePoint MBR-1000 for a friend last night.

Installed the 4G modem driver for a Sprint 4G WiMax card with no issues. Worked with friend's VOIP phone so he can now travel and have shared Internet where ever he goes.

This device rocks.

linky

Foxconn suicides: 'Workers feel quite lonely'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10182824.stm && http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100526/wl_time/08599199162000

Is your iPhone/iPad really worth that?

This makes me sad, because there is nothing I can do.