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Happy (Belated) 5th Birthday to Loosely Coupled by Tim Marman

I started blogging on January 29th, 2003 . We've been a little heads down trying to get Notches to launch and I completely forgot to write about this, but I've now been blogging for over five years. I talked last year about my motivations for blogging...

Security implications of MyBlogLog vs. BlogRovr by Tim Marman

According to a TechCrunch story , Citibank is putting a warning message up for users of comment and blog tracking services. As it turns out, there is a known issue with the coComment plug-in and, though I'm not familiar with the service, it sounds like...

The Intense Debate Experiment by Tim Marman

As some of you may have noticed, I've been trying out Intense Debate on this blog. Though the Intense Debate homepage advertises that you can import your existing comments, I haven't found a way to do so. As of now, this means I need to show all of my...

Sorry for the downtime by Tim Marman

Right after the move , the power supply in one of the new servers died. Unfortunately, the database was also running on this server and I didn't have mirroring set up yet. It required a physical trip to the data center, but we recovered the data and failed...
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Moving Day! by Tim Marman

I'm moving slashstar.com to new hardware today - I just put in the DNS request, so you should be seeing the new site shortly. Hopefully there are no issues with this, but I'll be keeping an eye on it and ironing any kinks out as soon as possible. Performance...
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