Dear Reader
My cruel owner got very excited last night when he went to play with his
rotating tagline. Instead of his precious blog, much to his surprise, he
was presented with
this. His reaction
to this mundane error was startling.
At last ! Look, blog, look at this. 18 months and I've finally done
it. At last ! We've been dugg ! Why did it take them so long to catch
on ? Look blog, look. Finally, we've been Slashdotted !
The poor old servers at Bluehost don't know what's hit them. Thousands
of hits per second. Apache is on its knees begging for mercy and more
swap space. Why, I bet Matt Eaton will be on
the phone any second now. We've done it.
Technorati Top 100.
Blog, look, just look at that
screen !
18 months, 3 different hosting providers, 500 articles, 4 readers, 6
comments and 2 self-inflicted disasters. And now, finally, it is all
worthwhile. My life is complete. And you know what - I think it is
very interesting how all this happened shortly after my brilliant idea
to introduce the rotating
tagline.
Of course, you know what this means, blog. We're going to have to move
house (again). Prestigious, high traffic sites on the
TailRank front page can't live on cheap, 5
dollar a month hosting.
We are going to have to move to
MediaTemple with a powerful grid
infrastructure. Of course, the hosting will be absolutely free because
MediaTemple will be fighting off Google and Microsoft for the
privilege of hosting us !
Now I need to go and powder my nose. I'm doing a podcast on the
Scoble Show in 10 minutes.
My cruel owner was so excited and happy, I couldn't bear to tell him
this was just a temporary glitch on the Bluehost monitoring agent and
everything was back to normal now.
Yours
The interminable bytestream that is 'Blog in isolation'