Dan Grossman | 2007 October

Ron Paul’s support is fake

October 31, 2007

If you watched Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC before and after the Democratic debate a few hours ago, you would’ve seen a crowd of students behind Chris and his guests throughout the show. You’d also notice that just about every huge sign these students waved the entire night was for Ron Paul (and [...]

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Democratic Debate at Drexel Tonight

October 30, 2007

Drexel University, the university I attend, is hosting the Democratic debate tonight. Brian Williams, the moderator, is broadcasting his news show from Drexel prior to the debate, then the debate itself will be held in the school’s main auditorium. There were only 250 tickets available to see it in person, and thousands that wanted [...]

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Design at a snail’s pace

October 28, 2007

It takes me so long to do so little with Photoshop. Still feels like it’s missing something too. Next thing I need to do, at least, is some CSS text replacement with images for those cruddy people still running IE6 with no anti-aliasing and without my favorite ‘Trebuchet MS’ font.
I won’t have much [...]

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54 million visits per day on a VPS?

October 27, 2007

More stress testing the VPS with scripts since nobody’s volunteered a real site. Just running a couple scripts continually downloading the tracker image from the VPS, it seems to be handling 2000-3000 queries per second on the database while extremely responsive.
Either something’s wrong or I underestimated just how little resources you need when you [...]

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Friday’s entertainment

October 26, 2007

Used a gift card from my sister to buy both DVDs of Karas. Judging from the first 5 minutes alone, I may enjoy this more than the movie that stub was from. Extraordinary animation — a magnificent blend of drawn and 3D rendered artwork.
Have I mentioned on this blog that I love good anime?
I [...]

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Who knew there was a Chinese version of my site

October 25, 2007

I was going through the popular pages report for Website Goodies when I came across something strange. Looks like something written in a non-western character set… coming up as a page of my site? Turns out doseo.org copied the HTML and images for Website Goodies and filled in (mostly) their own content. They even [...]

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Where can I buy unique articles?

October 25, 2007

Anyone purchased pre-written articles before and can recommend a site? I’m looking at Constant Content but find it rather sparse in some topics. I’d like to buy a few articles for Website Goodies to publish over time. The ECPM there for AdSense is awesome, so I shouldn’t be neglecting the site so much.
No volunteers [...]

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I should hire a designer, but I’m lazy

October 22, 2007

…so I’m doing it myself again. I thought about holding a design contest, but that didn’t work last time I tried it. I don’t know if someone will get the details right from rough mockups, and details bug me.
W3Counter tells me less than 4% of visitors to the site have screens less than 1024 [...]

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

October 22, 2007

Kansas State University’s really putting out some interesting videos. Stumbled upon this one, essentially defining “web 2.0″, while reading the SoftLayer blog.

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Does anyone have a 500,000 daily pageview site?

October 21, 2007

The VPS is handling artificial load well. Now I need a real test, but I don’t have any sites getting nearly enough page views to see if the VPS will slow down with more realistic data. Anyone want to volunteer their high traffic site for a day?