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I guess I find it odd that this happened, but UTF has been dugg on Digg thanks to this link on the whereabouts of Timmy. In checking the Feedburner traffic I noticed a huge spike in traffic the past three days, and after doing some “digging” around, I realized it was a result of the Digg effect. In some ways, I guess it’s an honor to finally be a victim of the Digg effect, but since I no longer care for Digg, it’s not that big of a deal to me as it would have been a year ago.

Even though I have the WordPress cache plugin active, it’s possible you may have had trouble reaching the site. In any case, I just wanted to let you know that if you experienced some downtime the past couple of days, the Digg effect is the reason why.

I have posted complete audio files of Timmy’s two most recent songs, “Shot by a Lover” and “Bible by the Bed,” for your listening pleasure. You can find the two songs in the Media>Music section. Enjoy! I sure am.

UTF version 5 launches! At last, at last, at last! I’m sure some of you are saying, “It’s about time.” Trust me, I am too; I was just as sick of the old layout as some of you. I slaved, I kept my nose to the grind, and I worked my entire Easter vacation to get this done; however, I think you’ll find that it was well worth it. I would have been ready to launch sooner had the web site outages halted the backend work I needed to complete, but unfortunately, no one can predict when server issues occur.

Because my web host is still experiencing some problems, it’s possible that UTFv5 is a little slow to respond when you initially click on a link or page. Slower responses in page load will also occur because I’m precompiling everything upon initial load. I know I’m speaking a bit geek now, but that essentially means the site is loading the page contents upfront before it displays in your web browser. When you revisit that page (once it loaded the first time), it will display pretty fast because it was preloaded and cached (stored). Continue Reading »

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