2007 – Page 11 – Lefthandedlayup

Lebron James has come up with a performance we all knew he was capable of and we all had been waiting for. In a double overtime victory, the Cleveland Cavaliers have taken one game ahead of the Detroit Pistons 3-2.

Here are the stats: 48 points, 7 assists, 9 rebounds, 10 of 14 freethrows and 2 out of 3 three point attempts, two at each overtime period, both just at the right moment to steal the thunder away from Detroit whom at various times looked like they were about to pull away.

In a performance heralded as ‘one of the most spectacular in NBA Playoff history’, the game itself was a heart pounder, with 22 lead changes and 16 times tied.

Read the rest at Basketball Exchange.

P.S. I’m gonna start reposting basketball exchange posts here. Not that it needs any more of a push, but it helps, just as my reposting my movie review posts at movie ex helped that site :)

I’ve always wanted to be a writer

Since I can remember. Which is why it was very difficult for me to make the decision to finally decide to forego contributing to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Partly because I had been doing it off and on for five years, and partly because it is just time for me to do so.

Events of the past few months have seen my schedule reach toxic levels. Just last night I realized I was doing two different things on two computers, one of which was beside my bed as I lay down trying to keep from falling asleep. I did so anyway, and woke up at 1am and 3am to work on them even more. It has been that kind of busy for me for the better part of the last few months now, and I just cannot find the time anymore to do the necessary things to remain as such, which is primarily, attending events. Writing about these is easy enough, but all the necessary events and event – related stuff is just too much of a time – eater. Since I feel I cannot do a good enough job, I therefore feel it apt that this responsibility go to someone else. In my mind, someone younger and who’d jump at the chance to experience these, as I did when I started out.

And with that I close with finality an important chapter of my life. Mind you I’ve always known the time would come, and it’s one hundred percent clear to me that this is the best thing to do. I can’t say I don’t hope that others would feel the same, and sadly that is not the case. But having said that I wish they’d wish me the best as well, as I would always, always do for them.

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Server RAM Upgrade. Again.

From the server grease monkeys at my host:

Hi Gabriel, I logged into your server to investigate the problem and I’ve found that
you’re in dangerous territory concerning memory:
> root@exchange:~# free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 256 250 5 0 0 1
> -/+ buffers/cache: 249 6
> Swap: 95 95 0
That shows you have 6MB of free RAM, but at some point you’ve exhausted
your entire SWAP Allocation (see last line). If the load had been any
greater, your server would have been killing processes (which would show
in /var/log/messages) in order to remain stable.

So to make the long story short, I had to buy 96mb. more RAM to handle the load. The load usually spikes around lunchtime, exactly when the office girls take a break to check out Kikay. I know that sounds funny, but it’s my best guess and historically, our stats support it. During weekends, hardly anyone views it, with less than ten views per hour. Then on weekdays, especially around noon, 30+ views per hour, viewing as much as 82 pages at the same time.

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