Archive for October, 2008

Failure to lunch

Monday, October 27th, 2008

At 25 years old, I have had my fair share of failures. In retrospect, I think I have failed more than I care to remember. Recently, I have had two colossal debacles that made me waste a few good night's sleep, money and, most importantly, time. Strangely, unlike other fiascos ...

I was down, but now I’m up

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

EM was unreachable during most of the day today. The culprit seems to be a deviant configuration file in the web server, as expressed in this email from Scott (a DreamHost customer representative): Elvis, Sorry for the trouble. There was a misconfiguration with the web server. Everything looks to be up and running ...

Technology and Poverty

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The Poor Children Source: job_earth's photo stream The worldwide financial crisis has been receiving constant press coverage during the past two months or so. The occasion could not be more opportune for us to join the thousands and thousands of blogs that will bring attention to the Blog Action Day 2008. This ...

Processing cycles battling deadly diseases

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Cancer, as many of you already know, is the unrestrained development of certain cells in the organism. The disease, according to its Wikipedia entry, takes millions of lives every year: Cancer may affect people at all ages, even fetuses, but the risk for most varieties increases with age.[1] Cancer causes about ...