I liked the idea of open source, so began researching WordPress. I was impressed by the size of the development community and the diversity of options, features and themes. I also knew that my hosting service offered an easy install option on the Xserve that hosts gulker.com. WordPress has been straightforward to install and configure, and after a few posts I had mastered most of the features. I've even manage to localize a fun template I found from German to English. The AJAX text editor is very nice, and ditto for the integrated tools for photo uploading and placement.

In testing this past weekend, I've been impressed with the speed of the page loads. My experiments with database-driven web pages in the 90s showed that flat html loaded much faster, hence the strategy of using Radio's database to render and manage flat html pages. Now it appears the opposite is true - MySQL, PHP and Apache seem to offer very good performance. So, now the big question is when and how to throw the switch. We may need a beta 2 'shakedown cruise'...
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Why Netflix needs to move to better distribution methods. Here's a crtitcal moment from the film Eight Below as seen when it ground to a halt thanks to a scratched DVD. Seems like this happens a lot, especially to the popular movies. Looked into P2P over broadband? Bit Torrent?
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