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March 11, 2010

Other (probably intelligent) wordpress plugins to install

Following up on my post about RAM (or lack of it), i decided to install a proper wordpress plugin to cache most of the stuff in static HTML files. It’s called WP-SuperCache and i’m hoping it’s really super

But now i cannot but wonder if i shouldn’t – somehow (…)
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March 10, 2010

Lack of RAM will kill your blog host virtual machine

I know what you are thinking: “Well, duh Pedro, how come you didn’t know that?”.

I’ll explain: Recently i started having some service shortages on my blog. From times to times the CPU usage would just go rooftop and then nginx and apache both stopped serving requests. I am using Linode (…)
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February 18, 2010

Video speed controls on youtube’s HTML5 player

I don’t know if you noticed, but youtube introduced speed controls to their HTML5 video player. I have no idea if it was there from the beginning, actually, but it’s a really cool feature indeed

February 17, 2010

The quest for a simple music player on mac OSX

I have to say this: looking for a simple music player for OSX is like searching for a needle in the middle of lots of big sticks; it should be easy, except the needle is under the carpet. Nevertheless, between trying out iTunes , Songbird , and a few other options, i have always felt like there should be something, you know, simple and memory efficient. (…)
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February 16, 2010

Bomb This Country

After an awesome Japanese dinner with my good friend Luizzz , we came to the conclusion that the website that was missing was one where you could bomb any country in the world. … So over the course of about 8 hours – the next day – we came up with bombthiscountry.com , a meaningless website where you can bomb any country in the world (yes, China, Tibet is a country). (…)
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