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Back to Normal

Gosh, all these visitors were giving my server a hard time.

No wonder, after my cake story got dugg more than 3500 times, slashdotted, “valleywagged” and I don’t know what else…

You guys were very supportive when it came to helping me picking up the tab, thanks! I got a lot of help from supporters who all gave me a dollar-or-so, so I decided to send a small check to the Mozilla Foundation and another one to the OSU Open Source Lab.

The OSU OSL is where some of Mozilla’s servers are and they work hard for some of the finest projects in the Open Source world, and they also need our support. Through the collaboration of the OSL and Mozilla, that a whole lot of Firefox downloads can take place flawlessly at the same time, free of charge.

You are great. Thanks again!

(And I hope some people keep my blog in their feed reader :))



This entry was posted on Sunday, October 29th, 2006 at 7:59 pm and is filed under Mozilla Crosspost, OSU OSL Crosspost, fredericiana. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Back to Normal”

  1. 1
    George Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 1:32 am

    Hey Fred,

    Your blog’s rss feed isn’t working for me.

    Error is:
    XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
    Location: http://fredericiana.com/feed/
    Line Number 131, Column 12:
    -----------^

    This seems to be due to the code in the entry titled "Fixing Backspace and Delete for SSH in OS X’s Terminal.app"

    I'm not quite sure why the CDATA identifier isn't working, but you might want to try having the feed escape special characters.

  2. 2
    Core Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 3:35 am

    maybe it’s time to put an adsense XDD

  3. 3
    Fred Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 9:13 am

    Hey George, thanks for the info — I had to replace the backslash there by an html entity and now it works!

    Core: I do have adsense.

  4. 4
    Sam - MindSmack.com Says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 8:27 am

    Alexa is your friend :)

  5. 5
    Xavier Says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    Hey there. Did you notice that your site is now listed number 7 with a 80,000% growth in Alexa ranking? That must be the biggest alexa growth ever! :)

    And all for a cake? :P

    Congrats, cya.

  6. 6
    Fred Says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 3:59 pm

    Wow, Xavier. That’s impressive. Now I don’t even wonder anymore why my little server was so much under pressure ;)

    Thanks for mentioning!

  7. 7
    Fred Says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 4:04 pm

    George, am I in your feed reader now ;)

  8. 8
    George Says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    Yep =)

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