You reap what you sow, I suppose. Yesterday, I criticized Cuil partly for their lack of stability under stress.

Last night, one side of my UPS died. Just died. No beeps, nothing. One side works, the other doesn’t. I guess one of the batteries has finished its lead-filled little life. That took out my primary name server and my in-house hub. At first, I thought it was just the hub, so I borrowed one from my brother-in-law and swapped that out. Still no light on the name server. Figured that out and managed to keep the downtime to an hour or so. Given that the two secondary name servers were alive and well, all was okay. it didn’t last. [read more]

Cuil was finally ready for its big debut. The Press had picked up the story. Digg was awash with stories of how it would kill Google.

So, I decided to check it out and I have to say I am disappointed. I’m cool with their Gaelic spelling of “cool,” but there are two significant problems with their service as currently released. [read more]

[09-Jun-09 - Checked against 2.7.1. After an upgrade, you need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin to turn off revisions again.]

While the WordPress 2.6 upgrade has not gone smoothly for a lot of people, one new feature that has yet to bite too many people is post revisions. Whenever you save a change in a post in WordPress 2.6, it saves a copy of the old version as well as your changed version. If you hit ’save’ a lot while writing, that can add up to a lot of extra crud in your database.

Now, these can be turned off by editing your wp-config.php file, but that’s a bit gross for a system like WordPress where everything else can be done through a nice web interface. Better solution: the No Revision plugin. [read more]

It is not often I get some scoop, but this one got leaked to me (shhhh!), so I’ll share it.

SingleHop is about to release a slick new management tool for their servers called LEAP that will definitely raise the bar for their competitors still using Plesk or CPanel. You get the interactivity of a desktop application but all in the portable convenience of your browser. Everything from configuration to provisioning to billing in one place. Pretty sweet.

For my fellow geeks out there, some details. It is Ajax, not Flash (or Flex), all built on top of Ext JS. Always good to seem web standards winning over proprietary stuff.

In any case, check it out. SingleHip should be releasing LEAP this week:

Update (21/Jul/2008 12:21): LEAP is now live on SingleHop’s site. I guess my “scoop” is now old news. Still a nice Ajax app, tho.