Hey folks - just wanted to let you know that I’m on vacation here in New York City for the next two weeks so updates to Krunker might come sporadically while I’m gone. I’ll try and catch up during the morning and late evening hours. Thanks for dropping by!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend. We spent the weekend grilling up a storm, playing some volleyball, and just relaxing. OK.. I did sprinkle in a little bit of work here and there (BTW - I have this love/hate relationship with Ruby on Rails right now.. mostly hate.. but oh well) but for the most part, I took time off from Krunker.
Of course, this week will certainly be a pretty big week - at least towards the end of the week when the new iPhone 3G launches. You can probably count me in as one of the many who will upgrade their iPhones to the newer model as well as upgrading (and paying more) for the 3G service.
A couple of other interesting notables. I hope to finally bring out a review of an HP Pavilion Slimline system that I’ve been using as an HTPC system as well as a review of the Chumby. Oh yes - hopefully you’ll see a short review of a new MadCatz Xbox 360 add-on that brings HDMI connectivity to first generation Xbox 360 systems.
Ok.. that’s it for now, got some work to do but I’ll be back later on in the day!
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Feel free to add Krunker to your account and we’ll get the conversation going! (as long as there’s no downtime at Twitter of course)
Enjoy!
Why we were offline this past weekend
Hey folks, sorry for being offline for most of this past weekend. Our host provider, The Planet.com, had a slight problem this past weekend. I’ll use the words from Kevin Hazard of the Planet to describe what happened:
This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.
Ouch! This impacted roughly 9000 servers and 7500 customers.. further OUCH. In any event, we’re back online now and things appear to be running somewhat smoothly. Having worked for a company that had major datacenters also, I can totally emphasize with what The Planet must have been going through. In any event, hope everyone will have a wonderful week!
I apologize for the lack of updates over the last several weeks. I’ve been utterly bogged down at work (yes.. again, I have a real day job!!) but things are starting to clear up again - so hopefully, I’ll be back at writing posts here at Krunker.com.
What have I been up to exactly? Well, I’m actually in the middle of rolling out a new REST based web service for my company. One of my next projects will be to integrate the new API that I’m developing into a WordPress blogging engine. Should be fun! I’ll also be able to talk about what exactly I’m developing shortly but let’s just say it has to do with language translations of course!
In the meantime, I’m going to try and recruit some help along the way to make sure Krunker gets the attention the site deserves. With that said, I hope all of you have a wonderful week!
Yes.. I’m a few days late but nevertheless, I wanted to wish all of you a very Happy New Year. I hope all of you had a great (and safe) time off celebrating the coming of the new year. Here’s to a wonderful 2008!
I’d like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas!!! Hope your day was filled with love, joy, and gladness .. and yes.. lots of presents too! Anyone get good gifts this year?
The last Friday before Christmas…
Before I forget, I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Friday! For most of you out there, this is the last work day before the holidays kick into full gear and the start of the last weekend of Christmas shopping. Hopefully you’ve gotten most of your shopping done already - I for one never really started so.. I guess I’ll be doing a bit of shopping this weekend!
Finally, we here at Krunker would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It’s been an incredible year thus far and I’d like to thank all of you for visiting Krunker and making it a regular destination in your daily life.
For those of you traveling this holiday season - please be safe and make sure to give yourself lots of time on the roads. Enjoy the company of friends and family; eat lots of food; watch lots of TV or movies; play lots of video games; and enjoy the time off!
I apologize for the lack of news over the last several days. I’ve been under the weather with a bad case of a stomach virus (and man.. I’ll never wish that upon ANYONE I tell you!). The one thing this virus allowed me to do was to watch the entire first season of Battlestar Galactica on HD DVD this weekend.. yeah.. I know - exciting right? I thought so. In any case,my body and more importantly, my stomach appears to be a bit better now so I’ll try and catch up with the CE world a bit now.
Thanks again for visiting.
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving holiday weekend! I had a nice relaxing (and quiet) four + day weekend here in Los Angeles (unfortunately got a little sick along the way). Ironically enough, I didn’t get a chance to enjoy any Black Friday deals nor today’s Cyber Monday deals but I would love to hear from all of you! We’re down the final stretch here for 2007 so stay tuned for a number of articles and product reviews!
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