December 1, 2005: The 2005 Christmas Calendar Blog Run
The start of what I’ve dubbed The 2005 Christmas Calendar Blog Run.
Posted on 2005-12-01 23:48 by Jørn Støylen [permalink]
I’m typing this first entry of my 2005 Christmas Calendar Blog Run on my new iBook, sitting in the livingroom couch. I got it mainly so it would be possible for us (Christina, Hyndla and I) to do what we want at the same time without having to be in the same room, disturbing eachother. My G5 Mac and Christina’s Windows box are both in the bedroom, which leads to trouble when, for example, Christina wants to have a nap, Hyndla wants to play games on the PC, and I want to do stuff on my G5. Eventually we’ll move the PC to Hyndla’s room, so she can play without having to occupy our bedroom, but she’ll need a flat LCD monitor, since Christina’s HYOOJ CRT monitor would take up all available space on Hyndla’s desk.
Don’t get your hopes too high about this blog run, though. For one, you’ll probably be disappointed when we get to 24, because it won’t be a climax of any kind, I’m afraid. (I’ll have better things to do on that day than heavy blogging.) Unless I manage to type up something beforehand, which I might or might not.
I got the idea from Clagnut, which mentions a Christmas Calendar blog thing called “24 ways (to impress your friends)”. I haven’t been good at updating my site lately, and maybe this will get me going.
I don’t promise it’ll be good, but the goal is to write something every day.
Today, I’ll share a link to a blog post on The Ãœber Geeks called “Five more Photoshop tips you might not know”, from which even I, with my ten years of experience, learnt a couple of nifty Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. (See comments.)
Also, I should mention that on Tuesday, a colleague and I officially launched EnMillion.no, a shameless copy-of-concept of The Million Dollar Home Page, which sooner or later would’ve been snatched by someone else if we hadn’t done it.
If you read Norwegian (which you probably don’t, since my handful of readers are all English speakers), you can read more about how it’s been going in our blog. If you don’t (hi, handful of readers), here’s a quick summary: We sent out a press release by email Tuesday morning. It was quickly picked up by ITavisen.no, the biggest IT web site in Norway, and got a lot of hits from there. Shortly thereafter it made it to Dagbladet.no, which is the web site of the second largest newspaper in Norway. Due to how the site was set up on the TextDrive server, it very soon brought the server to a halt, taking a couple of hundred other sites with it. (Sorry, fellow TextDrive hostees!)
That evening I moved the site over to Lighttpd instead of Apache, which, had I configured it like that from the beginning, would’ve had no problem handling even the huge traffic from Dagbladet.no. Oh well, one learns from one’s mistakes, I guess.
Tomorrow’s entry might be a bit shorter. It should be, because if I keep writing this long, I will never be able to do one every day until Christmas!
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