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As you may have noticed, until about a week ago the Damn Interesting web server was about as sturdy as a pair of paper pajamas. A sustained orgy of traffic was exhausting our finite resources, cramming all of our ports with bits. A superior server remains out of our price range, and even the most potent WordPress caching plugins have proven unequal to the influx.
In response, a few weeks ago I set to work tailoring DamnCache, a more robust protection from such sustained pummeling. After a week or so of testing I am happy to announce that the server is now approximately as sturdy as corrugated cardboard pajamas.
Speaking of unusual apparel, our Zazzle-powered logo store is now online and peddling goods such as T-shirts, hoodies, and iPhone cases for all of your holiday shopping needs. To celebrate, each week from now until the end of December we’ll be giving away a $25 gift code that can be redeemed for logoey goods. Watch our Twitter feed and/or Facebook page for details. The first will be given away shortly.
Speaking of shortly, moments from now we’ll be posting our first-of-maybe-many Damn Interesting Shorts. If these fun-size word-wads are well-received they will become a higher-frequency feature to help fill the gaps between the full-lengthier articles. Feedback is welcome.
Speaking of feedback, we have recently acquired a high quality microphone for the purposes of performing another experiment: the much-rumored and long-awaited Damn Interesting podcast. Details are forthcoming, but if the pilot episode is as awesome as we anticipate, it will become a tradition for each featured article to be accompanied by audio.
Thank you for your kind attention.
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Hooray! Any news from DI is news I want to hear!
Two posts in a year!
Fantastic Sir!
Thanks for the update! As a faithful reader of your articles I’d like to suggest that some of us readers with web servers can offload some of your burdening traffic to keep the site afloat. Don’t know how that would work, but I wouldn’t mind taking 5-10% of the server burden to keep it up and running :)
Weeeee! Podcasts! I love it.
Been here since the hayday… There was once an article that included a radio interview with you Alan and not since then have I heard that dreamy bedroom voice.
Damn excited.
As an IT professional Server Woes are an everyday battle for me. Keep up the good work! Let me know if I can help.
What is the name of the woman in the photo? May seem like an odd question, but I must ask. Danielle?