I wanted to blog sitting in the bus through my new posterous setup :P. Couldn't come up with a better topic. So, thought I will rant a bit about my last night's 75 wasted minutes.

So, US state department wants me to fill a form before I schedule an appointment for my visa stamping in India. You know the estimated time for filling it. 75 mins! I can live with it if the information I was giving was all new. But no, every single detail I filled in is already in the Government system! Dammit! Why can't you guys just take it from there and save 75*no. Of people around the world entering US. And the most annoying part (which my lawyer had warned) was that the form timesout, every 20 mins and all you info will be lost! So, better keep saving. Oh, just saving doesn't do anything. You have to save it as some exe file to your disk and upload to their system everytime you resume filling.

Oh well, that's Government systems for you, you might say. So true, the problem is universal I say!

Anyway, just wanted to blog something. I finished it and my stop is still not here. Hope this blog reaches you because my RSS setup was screwed up and you all missed my last post. Thanks @timoax for confirming!

See ya!
Mahesh Murthy

It's been months since I wrote anything here. Now that summer is over and I have mostly settled at my new job at Signal, I don't have any excuse to not blog :-) Well, let's just say it was a lie. I am a slacker, that is the real reason.

Anyway, just want to write something here. If you haven't noticed (if you are reading from within a rss reader), I moved out of Wordpress. My blog is now on Posterous. They have made it real easy to import all the content from WP to their system (except all the formatting of my old blogs is screwed up .. grr). Somehow, the simplicity of it attracted me to it. Now I can blog through email which I want to really try out.

The other big change is I got out of my old hosting provider hostmonster. It just started to get on my nervers with all the restrictions they started enforcing. Can't run cron jobs, can't run any process for more than 10 mins (my vim, screen session everything used to get killed after 10 idle mins). Plus all my sites were loading real slow and my customers started complaining (one customer who is actually my friend!).

Now I am on linode. It is a VPS, 3 times more expensive than hostmonster but I have so much freedom to do whatever the hell I want, I am loving it. They are definitely cheaper than all the other options out there for the configuration. I have 2 rails sites and 4 blogs running. Now, only if I could monetize something, it would have been nice :P

Oops, forgot that the title of the post was strong and slick

Strong == Linode Server

Slick == Posterous

On that note, signing off for the night.

Adios!

Mahesh Murthy