I just thought it was worth mentioning, but my site does not use Adobe Crash Flash in any way, shape, or form.  It is a crashy, proprietary, closed-source system and has no place on open-source Linux computers and servers.  It also has very poor support for Linux altogether, and especially 64-bit Linux, so I am boycotting it.

After a recent kernel upgrade on my webserver (from 2.6.33-rc8 to final), my webserver has decided that it only likes to boot up about once out of every five tries.  I had to wait until I came home from college to troubleshoot it, and that is why my site has been down for a few days.  If you tried to send me email, don't worry, because my email is no longer handled by my webserver and I received it anyway.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

I recently (about a day ago) switched all of my email from going through a local mail stack (with Postfix and Dovecot) to going through Google's mail server.  I made the switch to cut down on the ridiculous amount of Spam I have been getting lately.  It is highly unlikely that any emails didn't make it through, but if you sent me something and I did not respond you might want to send it again.  Thanks!

Happy New Year, everyone!  And remember to be Safe!

I don't know how I missed it, but MySQL got updated 4 times since the official version in Ubuntu.  Today, I just compiled and installed MySQL 5.1.41 on my server.  Bugfixes and security improvements only, I believe.  I am excited for the release of MySQL 5.5, however, because it should bring performance improvements.

This is the first site design I have done for anyone but myself.  Ahava Jewelry Designs is a small, one-person jewelry design business located in Burlington, NC.  I designed and eCommerce site for Ahava Jewelry Designs to help expand the market and increase profit.  The content management system is written in PHP with a MySQL database, and the HTML code produced conforms to the W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard.  Right now, the backend code is messy and slow, but I will be working on a major refactoring of it soon.  You should check out the website.

A few days ago, I switched the HTTPD application from Apache to Lighttpd 1.5 (pronounced lighty).  I had read in many places on the Internet that it was faster, especially for Drupal based sites like this one.  I have decided to keep it, so now my site will most likely be a small bit faster.

I wanna wish you a merry CHRISTmas, from the bottom of my heart!

PS.  There are no typos in this post or its title.

I am completely done with my exams!!!!! Now I get to go home for three weeks!!!!!!!