Vdsat.com

Blogging withdrawal is very painful. Earlier in the day, I barely resisted the temptation to blog only 12 hours after swearing it off. I ended up lasting abit over 20 hours.
So this is what I am going to do. I am going to stop blogging slowly. I will not blog tomorrow, but I will blog [...]

About a month ago, I blogged that I would stop playing Tribes 2 and stop trading.
What happened? I have not played Tribes 2 since then, but I have been in the market for about a week.
I realized today that now it is the month of September. I have a technical conference to go to in [...]

I registered vdsat.com exactly two years ago. The site was up a week later.

The easiest way to:

Increase the average time spent on your site
Decrease your site’s bounce rate

is to embed a video on your site.
I embedded a video during the early hours of the 19th and the average time spent on my site increased and my site’s bounce rate decreased.
Average time spent on site

Bounce rate

I just upgraded Wordpress from 2.5.1 to 2.6 and it took me 12 minutes, 17 seconds. I claimed it was doable under 5 minutes.
What slowed me down:
1.  I had to download Smart FTP. I did a fresh install of Windows a few weeks ago and didn’t have Smart FTP.
2.  In my post about upgrading in [...]

Anyone want to tell me why a huge gaping hole is on the side of my half gallon of milk?

Now if you’re going to rip me off by keeping the price the same and reducing the amount of product inside the container, that’s fine. But if you are going to keep the same half gallon [...]

Yes, I am bored.
With the recent release of Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5, it looks like EV SSL might actually take flight now. Users of IE 7 already had it long ago, but (a) only idiots still use IE and (b) the idiots who do don’t enable the anti-phishing filter when they are the ones [...]

WordPress MU is a multi-user version of WordPress. I have installed it at http://blogs.vdsat.com and you can go right ahead and create a blog. Note that I’m just playing around with it so don’t expect the site to last.
Update: I disabled new account creation and deactivated all blogs.?? Bots were trolling around, creating blogs, [...]

In this post, I will show you how to upgrade WordPress very quickly. It’s possible to do the upgrade in 5 minutes flat. To make the upgrade as fast as possible, you need to already have the following:

The WordPress Database Backup plugin.
Shell access to your hosting account. <– This is why I switched my hosting [...]

My blog’s webhost has just been changed from godaddy to FastDomain. I’m paying $3.95/month for two years. If you can see this post, the data is coming from FastDomain and not godaddy. Please let me know if there are any bugs with the site or any performance related issues.
Site performance should be slightly better than [...]