Let me tell you about it. I started watching Beauty & The Geek S4. I used to do series-marathons in Copenhagen, when S1 was aired instead of S3 (danes tv lagging behind as usual).

In a series of unexplained events, (spoiler:) Amanda has been kicked out of The Mansion in the second episode. Where has the world come to? How does a girl with $8,000 investment of boobjob is thrown out of a tv show without a night-at-the-beach-special, or heck, at least a mud-wrestling-trailer. Come ‘on! Though I did also get to see Next today, phew, (spoiler:) at least Jessica Biel’s boobies are safe from a nuclear holocaust! Thank you, Lord!

Google must love me.

I haven’t put much work into this yet. This is a learning project, and it has its learning curve. As you all remember, a few days ago I announced (hear hear) that I’m trying an ambitious project, optimizing “Genius at Work” to link to megidish.net.

* Sep 21: not at all in google
* Sep 22: @350
* Sep 23: @150
* Sep 24: @120
* Sep 27: @24 !

That’s right! I’m on the 3rd page of google, and it’s all automatic. So what have I done so far?

1. Changed title of megidish.net to “genius at work”. Though the density of the title is desaturated by “megidish.net”.
2. Changed in wordpress the name of the blog, so ALTs now contain the same phrase
3. Changed some of my social networks user accounts (such as dig) to include the name “g@w” as website-name
4. Wrote a post about it, and used <strong> around it.

That was it. Now, starting from place 24, lets see if I can make it to number #1. Any bets?

Yay me! I finished God of War 2!

Who’s da man? Who’s da man?! And it only took me ~15 hours (straight) with around 150 deaths Must say getting to the third sister was no fun on Normal mode. Alas, I am The Gawd of W0r, bow down before me. Now where’s III ?

I wanna try something. I want to seo myself. A wise man once said “I hope I’m not arrogant when I say that I’m the best man, in the world”.

Well, I’m not the best, nor the tallest form of chicken, but I’d like to try to seo the term “genius at work”. 40,600,000 results from a google search, with only two having the actual title at the top. I wonder if it’s going to hard to seo. If it turns out to be an easy task, I’ll try and optimize “genius”. That’ll be a difficult one!

So.

Sep 19, 2007: “genius at work” yields megidish.net as not in the top 100

And so our quest begins…

is celebrating its 25th birthday!

Sep 19, 1982, that’s when it all began. Visit Scott Fahlman’s page at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley/

I have just fired up two new categories, and this is their official initiation post.

Welcome to Entrepreneurship and code. Both will serve the community well. I think it’s time that I shared the learning process that I’ve been going through with all my online social projects, they would be of somebody’s benefit. I surely would have liked it if other people shared their experience with me. I cannot promise much (read: family of lawyers), but I will do my best to tell my story, and maybe run a post-mortem on my projects (wait, do I have to kill them first?)

So, welcome everybody and enjoy the stay. Swarm of posts are coming up your way. (woot! rhymes!)

I have cut my own wings
I no longer walk among the gawds
I have tasted the forbidden fruit
For I have finally seen Lord of The Rings

Megidish dot net has been doing the up and down dance. This is because Midphase is the best hosting in the world, to say the least. I just renewed my account, and a day later the server died.

Not that it’s a biggie, hard drives die all the time. But good ol’ Midphase have no raid mirroring. Soooooo it took about 12 hours to run fsck with badblocks, and then some more to fix the file allocation tables, and then some my sites were up with wrong databases. When I asked them several times where are the backups, how old are the backups, why don’t you use the backups? I just got a reply: “we won’t use old backups”. Who said backups need to be old?

Two days ago the server died again. When megidish.net dies, mail doesn’t make it through either. It’s funny that their support sends me mail to megidish.net I emailed them, where is the 99.9% uptime guarantee, it’s already below 80%! They completely ignored it, and said the server will be up in a few hours.

So, choose Midphase/AN-hosting! The best values for your money! Just like magic,, you wonder all the time what the fuck is going on!

Need to move hosting again. Any suggestions?
Thank god for cpanel all-around backup script!

Just when you think they cannot surprise you anymore:

your blog is so important. you are the new media…

I am the new media! That’s brilliant! I feel like I’m fighting off evil spammers on an hourly basis. I just get flooded with mail about how my post is important, and that some Joe Spam likes my design, oh, and btw, here’s a link to cheap viagra.

WHO BUYS CHEAP VIAGRA ANYWAY? people die and dicks explode for expensive viagra, so there are people who actually buy cheap crap?

Oh, and if I’m already ranting, here’s another thing. Screw all you assholes who uploaded crap videos that match the term “Dora Explorer” on YouTube! I’m babysitting a kid, I just promised her Dora clips, how the hell do you explain SNL skit to a 2-yr old? No, that’s a joke about immigrant sweety, this is not the real Dora… oh, hell..

My cat’s back for a visit
Eels is playing in the background
Having growth problems with dumpr (scale late everyone?)

AND, Sue posted this on her flickr stream. How cool is that? It’s titled “dumpr possibilities”.
Thanks, Sue!

He’s a newborn, weighting godknowshowmuch, spawning on dual core xeons at 2.00ghz, with a nice parking space for 250gb and a raid1 mirror. A whopping 2gb ram and a nice 10Mb uplink.

It’s my new httpd server, my asterisk server, my squid proxy (for pandora.com, of course), my ssh tunnel box, my love.

IT’S SO CUTE I WANT TO KISS IT!

There’s an itch I must scratch. Well, there are several of them. It’s not easy being me, trust me. I come up with ideas on a daily basis, and can never find the time to implement. I’m already over my neck with stuff to do and falling behind, and yet, every day I see a new opportunity to do something that has never been done before.

We always say that an artist never blames the tools. I’ve been trying different ways of organizing my thoughts and to-do lists. I’ve tried spreadsheets with due dates, I’ve tried sticky notes, online to-do lists, heck, even, hung a drawing board on my wall with priorities. Nothing works; and I’m always looking for answer: why can’t I get my stuff done? Can’t be because I have too much to do.

A friend of mine once tried to quit using his computer. He emailed everybody that he’s putting an end to it, and everybody emailed him “best of luck, don’t forget us”-kind of emails. The next day he emailed that he’s still alive, and on the third day he was online on msn that’s how it works.

I have this nasty habit of checking my statistics every minute. I haven’t even merged them into one-click views. I need to telnet my machines, check my google stats, check my webalizer, feedburner and whatnot. And I do it all the time.

I wonder what I’m doing wrong…

On a side note, I have finally released a new effect for dumpr. It’s a Rubik’s Cube Generator. Check out the image below! What do you think of that?

My buddy, Mark, is an undiscovered talent. Screengrab from a jabber conversation: