Back in Philly for a bit
Well, now that I’ve been home from Turning Stone for a bit I guess it’s time to write a blog where I say that not much has happened. I do have some random news on a few fronts.
1. I am starting to hear back from law schools. So far, I’ve heard back from three. I got into two and I’m wait-listed at one. I still have a few more to hear back from over the next month or so. Once I have my choices laid out, I’ll probably make a post offering my opinions on each possibility, then maybe I could get some feedback.
2. My sleep schedule is waaaay off. One of the problems with not forcing yourself out of bed in the morning is that you tend to go to sleep later and later, eventually finding yourself going to bed at 10-11 AM and getting up at 8 PM, thereby missing all of the daylight hours. I’m constantly struggling to stay on schedule. I got up last night at 1 AM after going to sleep in the mid-afternoon. I’m hoping to be able to stay up tonight until around 10-11 PM, then go to sleep and get up at 8 AM. After that, I’m going to try to stay on a good schedule for at least a few weeks.
3. thepokerdb has been really slow sometimes lately. I’ve had trouble looking up a player to the point where I was going into my timebank to wait for the results. Right now, we use something called a VPS, which stands for Virtual Private Server. Essentially, it’s a server that hosts more than one website, but has dedicated resources for each one. In addition, it looks to us like it’s just our computer. The problem is that the speed of the VPS is definitely affected by the other people on the computer. While the VPS has been okay overall, it’s too unpredictable. Obviously, that isn’t acceptable, so we decided to upgrade our servers.
Now we’ll be using what’s known as a dedicated server. This means that we get to choose our processor, RAM amount, disk system, etc. We went with a server that is designed for database heavy operations (all our users constantly looking people up), but isn’t overkill on the bandwidth end. The reason we don’t need a lot of bandwidth is that we only serve text information, which is very light compared to multimedia information. Sending a bunch of numbers and html to people over the web is very cheap, so we were able to save money on that end and throw a ton of resources in our RAM and processor. In the end, we should all see a huge performance increase on the db in the next week or so as we move everything over.
4. Like I said in a previous entry, I will be meeting up with schaefer when his baseball trip rolls through Philadelphia in early May. However, I recently decided to extend that trip with him to include visits to Boston and NYC as we’ll be attending games on May 7th and May 9th. In addition, I’ve heard credible rumors that MLG/anakinso will be along for some of that leg of the trip. I’m excited as I somehow have never been to Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium. In addition, the one at Yankee Stadium is a NYY v BOS game, so that should be good. The only downside is that they only have single tickets available, so we’ll all be sitting in different parts of the stadium.
5. 2+2ers are planning another Turning Stone trip, this one in mid-late May. It will co-incide with my sister’s graduation around the same time period, so I’ll probably do another Ithaca-Verona combo-trip of some kind.
That’s it for now. Since I’m going to be up for the daylight hours today, I should probably go get some stuff done while everything is open.
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