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iPhone saves a parking ticket
The other night, my wife and I went to downtown San Diego for dinner and to goto a dueling piano bar (we left the little one with my parents). Parking, of course, is a nightmare, and after driving around for a little bit (my wife said I wasn't aggressive enough in finding parking), I saw a spot in a yellow zone and zipped into it. I couldn't recall what the regulations are regarding yellow zones after 6 pm, so I pulled out an iPhone and searched. I found a few references to parking in yellow zones and then stumbled upon a document from the city. With the information in my hand, I was sure that I could park in the yellow zone. We had one of the best parking spots in downtown; I'll have to remember that for next time.
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Faster than a speeding bullet
Now that I've migrated most of my web traffic to another server, I took a look at some settings on my server. Awhile back I added QOS rules so that I'd still have good VOIP traffic even if people were hitting my website. I turned off the rules to run a speed test and almost fell off my seat. I'm consistently getting over 13 Mb/s down and about 1.5 Mb/s up. Last time I checked, I had 6 Mb/s down and 1 Mb/s up. Thanks Time Warner!
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Toll Roads are your friends
Yesterday I had to drive up to Santa Monica, a drive that could range anywhere from about 2 hours 15 minutes to 3 hours 10 minutes according to Google Maps. Google Maps said to take state route 73 which is a toll road for part of the way. I usually avoid toll roads because of the cost, but decided that if I could stay out of some traffic and shave some time off my drive, it was worth it. It cost me $4.25 each way (I went at off peak hours; peak is $5 each way) and it is definitely something I'll use in the future if I have to go up that way again. While it may sound like a lot of money, the drive is extremely pleasant (it is very under utilized) and scenic (if you can call driving through Orange County scenic). I always thought toll roads were a bad thing because I'm used to east coast toll roads where you pay a fortune and they carry a fair amount of traffic; toll roads around here seem to be avoided even though time really is money!
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Virtual Server - Day 2
I managed to move over most of my domains to the virtual server and am pleased so far. However, I had to jump up to their next plan because I was running out of memory. So due to the limited amount of memory (512 MB with no disk swap), I've decided to leave mail on my server as SMTP has built in retries so if my server goes down, my store and website don't do down with it.