For the longest time I just didn’t see what the big deal was about twitter.  This was partially because I never bothered to really find out what it was, most of the time when something is the latest buzz, I don’t pay attention because things come and go.  It was only a couple months ago that I signed up for twitter, and I enjoyed using it and when I signed up for Pownce I enjoyed using it too.

I like Pownce a bit more than twitter because of the interface and the media sharing, I don’t have a lot of friends on Pownce so it is somewhat boring and I don’t use it much.  The other reason I don’t use it much is because of the lack of desktop clients.

I have been using Twitteriffic on the Mac, which is a great app, but they need to stop pulling the most recent items and forgetting what you have already read, it would also be nice if they were keeping older items in the list.  Pownce has an Air app, but I freakin hate Adobe Air applications which prevents me from using a lot of the multi-site clients.  There is a nice addon for Firefox that allows you to Pownce urls, but I am so afraid I am going to send something work related so I never enable the plugin.

I guess this is an indirect request to Leah of Pownce, please please please create a nice desktop application.  I’ll sign NDAs and beta test out the arse just hook me up!!  I would work on one, but I don’t have desktop application experience, only web apps.

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Hello again everything.

Sorry for the downtime, I signed up for a Dreamhost account to take care of static content and downloads since the connection is fast and the accounts are cheap. After signing up for it I wanted to wait a month or two before colocating that server again. I would like to get it down to a 1U and do a few upgrades to it. I also have some new projects to get integrated so I need some time to do all this. I just got around to putting everything on Dreamhost this evening so that is why everything was down for so long.

I should have a few new posts coming up in the next few hours or days, but not a whole lot has been going on for the past week.

I just finished moving everything over to the new server. I just colocated DIGITAL39 and a few other sites on a box I have. It is a Pentium 4, 2.6HT with 1GB of DDR400, which will become 2GB soon. I have two SATA 120gb drives in RAID1 and thats about it. You should notice better performance and now that I am back on Linux I will be adding some more cool stuff to the site.

I just looked at wp-shortstat and I just hit 100,000 page views. That only covers pages within Wordpress and posts, nothing outside that. That is since June 2006. It started out very slow though, only recently did traffic really go up, but I don’t market my blog so all traffic is from search engines in most cases.