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How much traffic is required to be considered slashdotted these days when running a simple blog?
Tangenting away from the OP, but curious because I'm getting into setting up and running my own web server for the first time, and while I don't expect to be slashdotted, it's something I'd like to prepare for.
Combine that with the popularity that WordPress has drawing in people who know enough to program themes and plugins, but not enough to program said themes and plugins securely (avoiding simple SQLi and XSS) and you get the perception of an insecure system that WordPress has.
The weird beating seems like my heart is either beating normally or weakly and then there's a "hiccup" every minute or so. When I lay down with my ear against the pillow when this happens, I can hear my blood flow, which seems weird, like my blood containing tubes/pump is wider than the amount of liquid in the chambers; like an echo-y water flow sound.
Part of me thinks this is the L-arginine I take (to get "swoll" as they say) combined with the amount of caffeine I take in? Another part of me thinks this is a valve issue from bacterial endocarditis, since I still have my wisdom teeth, though I brush 3+x/day, but I've had 2 splinter hemorrhages without trauma on my fingernails recently, though I like any signs of Osler nodes.
I'm 6'1", 184-ish, muscular build, so maybe it's all in my head and the above paragraphs are the result of hypochondria exacerbated by a lack of health insurance or the money to even pay for a routine doctor's visit. I mean, I eat all healthy homemade food; currently cooking black beans + garbonzo beans to make a hummus of sorts.
Hoping my anxiety stays tempered long enough for me to get back on my feet while finishing my current project.
EDIT: I forgot to mention a frequent shortness of breath, though like in Jason Scott's case, this doesn't seem to prevent me from physical activity, but it bothers me that I can't take deep breathes all the time.
EDIT: Er, scratch that. Didn't realize there was audio attached. I think audio might be the incriminating factor in the two party consent thing. I mostly just wanted to make a bad pun.
Like the other commentor though, I'm not very strong with my physics knowledge, so I can't answer for certain, but I'll be reading about it at the gym tonight I think.
EDIT: Adding this: ( http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=23476 )
Sodium is essential to being healthy; the reason it's made out to be a big deal is due to how much processed food the average person eats. It's almost as though it's assumed that people are going to eat processed food regularly.
That being said, doesn't appcache provide the offline page if the browser can't connect?
With programming you can build something gratifying and real at no cost, which, if you're good enough, can actually lead to monetary reward rather quickly. This type of instant and rewarding feedback is immense when it comes to learning something.
Think of every other STEM subject. With Chemistry, sure you can learn about the subject, but to perform experiments you need money to buy materials, and nobody will hire a chemist without a degree. With Physics you're in a similar but different sort of situation, where even if you could afford the materials, you're limited to rather boring experiments along the lines of projectile motion, which doesn't seem to offer an rewards unless you become big on youtube. With engineering, I guess you can build some stuff, and that might actually pay off in the long run and be useful in the short run, but again, material costs.
With programming you just need a computer and you can pretty quickly make something that you can monetize, even simply using free hosting if you're idea is decent enough. With a super minor investment in a market license you can put a good enough app up and start making bank. The only real limit is your brain.
I've even had some sites do this where during the autoplay the site would autoscroll back to the location of the video and then not let you scroll away from the video until it was done playing. You'd be somewhat interested in the article, so you say "Fine, I'll watch the whole fucking ad" and then go back to reading only to have your fucking reading inter-fucking-rupted 15 fucking seconds later. FUCK!!! Seriously, fuck these web developers who do this absolute bullshit.