Not very flattering Mr. Flood... not flattering at all.
This is last call for Christmas 2009 limited edition digitalflood.com branded merchandise in the df.com Merch Shop. There is a limited time to purchase all Groucho Claus t-shirts. We’ve already pulled down the Christmas ornaments and with less than 48 hours to go until Christmas this is your last chance to get overnight shipping on any df.com merchandise. After 12/23/09 these items will disappear until 2010 when the next wave is released so if you want them– act now!
Random side note, I’ve added new photos to the following galleries:
None of the photos are “new” per say, but new to df.com itself. You’ll recognize them from our Facebook and MySpace galleries.
Finally you notice we added some images here and there on the site to pretty it up. Nothing major, but just some minor sprucing up to keep things fresh.
You would may have checked your Mayan calendar earlier today thinking it might have been 2012. Specifically if you tried to visit df.com between 3 pm EST and 7 pm EST this afternoon. During the course of setting up the new tagged posts feature on df.com, I managed to severely upset my server and proceed to crash it therein taking down df.com for some four hours. I was able to boot the server remotely, but because I hadn’t done that in awhile it ran scan disk and needed some disk errors cleared, which meant I had to physically go to work to actually manually finish the reboot process.
Once I was able to do that things were righted and then I was able over the course of the last hour able to finish tagging up all 247 plus entries on record to date. You’ll notice the “DF.com Hot Topics” box in the left hand menu. The way a tag cloud works (that’s the technical nerd name for that little doodad) is the bigger the font the more it gets read. All you need to do is click on that topic and all the posts that share that tag will come up. Hypothetically those posts are a “hot” thread, but opinions may vary. Let me know what you think of this neat little new feature.
I’ve been getting blitzed with so many hits lately. Couple that with a noticeable increase of spam emails and I’ve noticed page load times slowly creeping up. To temporarily fix the issue (and overall avoid having to deploy a new server) I’ve offloaded email to another server more apt to handle such a task. This will over the course of the next 48 hours significantly improve the situation and bring things back in order. I’m noticing shorter load time improvements already, which is good news for you and me. Yay us!
I came across a rather amusing “Twilight” parody that has landed on YouTube just in time for the “New Moon” release that apparently happened yesterday evening (or so I assume based on the thousand Facebook posts this morning about it and how “wonderful” it is… *gag*).
If you’re as confused as me about the whole Emo gender confused vampire thing as I am then I’m sure you’ll get as good a chuckle out of it as I did. I’ve never been able to sit through “Twilight” or even get through a paragraph of one of the books. It all seems so Harper-Collins dirty novel cheesy to me. I fail to comprehend how making a relationship complex by not only being exceptionally melodramatic, but an outright undead damned soul can be sexy. Alas, I am not woman so you neither hear me roar nor will you have me understand undead fetishes. I think I’m better off either way.
The aforementioned video has been immortalized in the df.com Video channel on YouTube. I also added a few other miscellaneous music videos to the channel as well. Be sure to check those out too.
Finally, I leave you with another Dan web gem. Today he told me about the wondrous “Cats For Gold” program. If there’s something here at df.com we’ve always had trouble with it is too much gold jewelry lying around and just not enough cats. I mean we’re pirates after all and what do pirates have lots of? Gold of course! ARRR! Well, we’re in luck. The Cats For Gold program promises us 25% more cats for our gold than the leading competitors’ programs. The wife may be mad at me, but with a tabby on the way sleeping outside in sub-freezing temperatures won’t quite feel as bad!
Ah yes, promotion. The act of promoting a bunch of things in a very promotional promoted manner. We like doing this. It makes us feel good. Like petting a kitten. Or singing to the birds. Or other Disney princess movie type of stuff. So, in df.com’s grand tradition of promoting random shows featuring our friends in a shameless manner I give you:
Armed Suspects playing with headliner Cold War Survivor
and fellow opening act Ruin!
This should be enough metal, punk rock, and good old fashioned beer drinking fun to keep you busy for the night. Be sure to tell Scotty Violence that DJ digitalflood sent you. If he then proceeds to punch you in the face and throw you out it’s not my fault. Look on the bright side– you’ll have a great story to tell your friends or co-workers the next day and me to thank. We all win in the end! 😀
When you spend hours laying around unable to move one thing you do manage to do is catch up on the tech world. With that, here are some of the neatest things I’ve been following in tech lately:
If you’re as confused as me about the whole FaceBook Farmville and Vampire sim thing, there still may still be online multi-player gaming hope yet for the nerd community as a whole– Civilization is coming to FaceBook by 2010!
Remember a few days back I told you about Verizon’s new Droid phone and how both open availability of both the Moto Sholes hardware and the Android OS itself could lead to other things? Word is Dell is working on a mobile Android hand held of its own right now.
The US FCC Commission has unanimously declared Net Neutrality as a top mandate in regulation for online access and that is great news for consumers as a whole.
If you’re into on the go computing like me, be sure to check out Portable Apps. They rock!
The BK Windows 7 Whopper is amazing, but only sold in Japan.
Kudos to the US Executive Branch IT team for moving the White House site over to an open source CMS saving all tax payers money and developers’ time. Excellent job!
R.I.P. to GeoCities. Your wealth of poorly designed sites may have not been much to brag about, but being the first to offer the masses free web space is not only notable, but changed the way web content hosting would forever be offered to the residential market as a whole. There would be no MySpace, AOL, or Facebook had there been no GeoCities.
At the end of this month, Ubuntu’s latest OS (9.10) will be released. Looks slick. Why would I pay for an OS again? Windows who? iPhone what?
Right arm is still sore and 95% unusable, but the intense pain has died down. Able to take a sponge bath, which is nice. You forget how much you take simple pleasures like bathing until you can’t do them.
Our domination of social networks continues to expand. We have recently joined Twitter and you can now follow df.com at: http://twitter.com/djdigitalflood. Just like our MySpace and Facebook accounts; we feed all df.com updates to you so you can follow us at your leisure through your social network profiles. I also have a LinkedIn account where you’re welcome to add me. Just be sure in the invite to note you found me through digitalflood.com. We’ll be working on a YouTube account next. If there’s a social network you’d like to see us on let me know and we’ll consider it as an option in the near future.
