Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures, Spotlight Friday, 8 January 2010 17:41 No Comments
Well its not really the end of my exams yet 
Only week one! There’s still week numéro deux leaving the rest of my weekend to a good advantage for me to revise (or leave things till Sunday as usual)! As you can see, I lost my creative juices lately as well as most of my inspiration (if you had notice the new and retarded logo on the top left of the blog). But no worries! I shall revamp this blog sooner or later.
Since I haven’t been posting for a long long time, I shall set this on spotlight category (: (it is a highlight is it not?). In short, I have spent the whole 5-Days of this week with no more than 5-Hours of proper rest. Increase in loss of hair and probably gained a few one or two pimples. FML. Yes. Exams. Although its only mocks, I have no idea why I’m taking it so seriously, P.S. Jafnee: Ms.Southall Notes!
One thing I’m really proud of now… my great collection of Biology and Chemistry notes for IGCSEs!
Oh, I forgot to mention, due to various obligations, I missed my one chance to “win” something from the Adobe Innovative Awards 2009. I can’t forgive myself till today. Seriously. But it’s the past, so I’ll have to just move on. Anyhow, I have installed LiteSpeed on my Netherlands server recently, and wow, a significant performance improvement (Yes, its only a 15-Days trial at the moment).
Previously, with suPHP, the RAM (Memory) usage was at an average 20% (If I’m not mistaken), but due to the way ’suPHP’ works, I often suffered High CPU Loads (for no apparent reasons) resulting in absolutely slow loading pages. Another factor I believe that has cause this is because of the I/O problems. With not much knownledge of the actual situation, I recompiled Apache and PHP into FastCGI mode (mod_fcgid). Yes, it was great at first, but many sites suffered random and unexaplainable problems. Sadly, it did not really help in terms of CPU reduction, even with nginx working as a reverse proxy. Which led me to my final solution, LiteSpeed.
So, Thank God It’s Friday! I have the rest of the day to fool around and sleep (yay!) .
Perhaps I should also get started on revision?
I won’t have time to update. Sooo don’t expect anything for a while 
Credits to:-
~Tenchi12 - For the amazing ’spotlight’ image taken from his DeviantArt.
I really find quite a lot of deviantArt images great pieces of art, thus I’ll continue using them to show people what I mean!
As usual, shout out to: Winn, Han Yang, Jafnee, Haren.
Byeee!
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures, Spotlight Wednesday, 23 December 2009 20:33 3 Comments
I haven’t been blogging for ages! By ages I think it has been over a few months now. However, a simple explanation for this is… “exams”. Yes, the cruel and deceitful evil that revolves around education. Its currently: “23rd December 2009″ and with Christmas only a few days away, I would like to wish everyone out there a big Merry X’Mas! And Happy New Year, wherever in the World you are. I’m stuck at home this holiday, but thats great. Nothing beats some family time and together-ness away from all the 21st Century disturbances.
To all the readers out there, I would like to extend my very best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Lets hope for an dreadful exciting start to a new year with new challenges (I have enough challenges already, thank you very much).
For those who did not notice, this blog/website was actually closed for a good 2-weeks I believe? Well, I was fed up of having a bot do all the posting, fed up of the constant plugin updates and everything that goes along with Wordpress. A simple lesson I learnt from all this was: KEEP IT SIMPLE. So I spent the last 2 days removing unnecessary plugins and trying out a more simple layout approach, like it?
There’s not much else I can update besides the fact I was considering the idea of a “New Start” by removing all my old posts since I dislike several of them, but I’ll just keep it to remind myself how much I hate them .
With that being said, yes, I find a “Post Rating” utterly useless. Yes, I find the “YouTube Widget” completely useless. Yes, I find all those “security” addons ineffectual. And yes, I find everything else I removed, unnecessary.
A few “what’s happening lately” is all on my Twitter, so go there and check it out. I’m still pretty sick after like what? 2 weeks? And I was given some “Pfizer” medication today by a new clinic (seeing as the last 3 failed). I only just realize “Pfizer” was only familiar to me cause of all those spam e-mails I get. Never knew they were actually advertising legitimate drugs (but their just affiliate sales websites, an attempt to earn easy money), hehe.
Well, happy holidays once again and hope to see everyone soon!
P.S. Thank you for the wonderful 1,000+ Unique Visitors PER DAY.
I would like to make a shoutout to:
YUI, HOMEN, ALEKS (FROM KRYPTODEV), MATEO (FROM LEAFRE), ALEX (FROM BANKAI), TOSHI AND EVERYONE ELSE!
EDIT #1: Check this video out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=104cdcySpEs
And Happy Christmas Eve!
EDIT #2: Merry Christmas Time to open up some presents!
Goodbye (:
( Ian )
Compliments to *Suryakami of DeviantART for the amazing “spotlight” image!
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