-
Englandland
June 26th, 2006Tags: armley, england, flags, football, leeds -
Guardian Warming
June 7th, 2006Tags: bias, documentary, global warming, guardian, newspaper, propagandaThis article on the Guardian website is amusing. They tell the tale of Al Gore’s new Documentary about global warming, named An Inconvenient Truth.
The Guardian, as most mainstream media, make the vast majority of their income from advertising. And the majority of advertising revenue comes from the automotive industry. So, obviously, the Guardian cannot afford to discourage automotive advertising in its newspaper and on its website by taking global warming seriously.
The article reduces the film to “wooden vice-president and failed presidential candidate, wheeling his suitcases from town to town and presenting a slideshow about climate change”. It goes on to suggest that it’s only popular because it was produced by the same guy as Pulp Fiction (huh?).
Read the rest of this entry » -
Combing Carla
June 6th, 2006Tags: armley, black cats, carla, cats, combing, leeds
-
High performance Wordpress
June 5th, 2006Tags: benchmark, cache, eaccelerator, lighttpd, lua, mod_cml, mysql, performance, speed, wordpress, wp-cacheOf all the Wordpress installations I manage, two of them bring in a rather large number of hits.
To speed up Wordpress I usually just enable the MySQL query cache and install the eaccelerator PHP opcode cacher. On one particular box, an Intel 1.3Ghgz PIII this increased performance from around 3 requests per second to around 10.
Recently I came across the WP-Cache plugin for Wordpress. This takes the finished output from any given wordpress request and caches it to disk, serving directly from the static cache for the next hour (configurable). Any new posts or comments in the mean time immediately mark the cached version stale, so you don’t need to wait around for an hour.
On the same hardware and blog, this increases performance from 10 requests per second to over 250. A 2500% increase in speed.
Read the rest of this entry »
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.