Category Archives: Site News

Server Benchmarking Diary - Debian, Apache 2 and MySQL

This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing […]

Nick Change - Placid to atc

I’ve given up on the nick ‘Placid’. Gonna use my initials ‘atc’ instead. Much cooler The term ‘be placid’ remains, as I like it as a slogan/way of life.

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Introducing My Photography

Over a month ago I deployed a photography section on my website. You could call it Placid Photography if you wanted. Anyhow, it’s a small gallery application I wrote in Django that provides a clean and simple interface to the photos hosted on my server that I’ve taken with my new Digital SLR camera, a […]

New Horizons…

I’ve been very busy these last few weeks. The majority of my time has been migrating this site to a new server, provided by slicehost.com (more on them later). My old host had reached its limits, both in its physical-capabilities and my patience with it. In this post i’m going to discuss the migration from […]

‘The Perils of MySQL’ - Update

If you search for Placid via Google, you’ll see that this site is now result 9 or 10 if you’re searching via their .com or .co.uk domains - my recent pledge to get my site noticed by Google and various other search engines is finally working out, and in all honesty it wasn’t that hard! […]

Site Redesign

Simon Coltman, has kindly designed an excellent style for the site. I’m extremely pleased with the colours, gradients and choice of fonts. So a big thank you to him!
I’ll blog again soon, watch this space

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