Bitchin' Blog Posts : Esosoft

Who Are the People in the Neighborhood?

September 24, 2009 | Thursday | 24 Comments

Who are the people in the neighborhood, the people in the sidebar each day? They’re the advertisers, and I’m starting a new feature where each month I give you a round up of who is supporting the site this month. The advertisers in the neighborhood help me run contests, pay for international postage, do some conference travel, pay for postage, cover fees and web hosting, assist in bribery of the Esosoft technical support staff when we Google bomb Amazon on Easter Sunday, underwrite postage and cover other expenses like postage. (Guess which is the largest item in my budget?) So… read more »

Comments and Loadtimes: Why I’m a Pain in Esosoft’s Ass

April 13, 2009 | Monday | 1 Comments

If you’re looking for comments and they’re not loading, it’s because of the record traffic being hurled at the Smart Bitch Server housed at esosoft.com. Our site is balanced across a couple of servers at this point, and so the comments are one of the things loading slowly. So some of them are off line - what can I say? Our science is tight, our comment threads are huge and our commenters are verbose. Stay tuned - they’ll be back. read more »

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