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  • Here For:

    Friends, Networking

  • Member Since:

    April 02, 2001

  • Sex:

    Male

  • Dating Preference:

    Female

  • Age:

    32

  • Relationship Status:

    Married

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  • Education:

    Some College Coursework Completed

  • Location:

    Brooklyn, NY

  • Race:

    Asian/Pacific Islander, White

  • Zodiac:

    Libra


recent blog posts

Been a while...

Posted February 15th, 2008 at 09:29pm

...since my last post. Figured I ought to update periodically.

 

We've had a bunch of outages on the site, and that's our fault. (My team, specifically, was involved in most of them.) There was a new release to the site - which we had a standard maintenance window for. But we've also suffered from several hardware failures and also a human error, each of which led to a period of downtime. Hopefully we've gotten that all behind us, now, and things should run stably.

 

On the plus side, though, the new release is good and on top of that we rolled out our new Spam fighting solution, which I helped to put together, and I'm very happy with. Member Services has already reported an improvement to the spam on the site - hopefully you'll all notice it as well, soon!

 

We've got some big improvements in the plan, the site should be running much faster and more stably over the next few months. We're also testing out new service providers for some of our content - trying to get rid of the slow ones and get more fast ones, and maybe even save a buck in the process. All in all, a lot of good changes coming up on BP soon. Keep your eyes open. And let me know if you see any spam!

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BP Performance

Posted September 10th, 2007 at 11:06pm

Ok, there've been a lot of changes to the site, and our recent efforts have really been focusing on performance. (BTW, I'm back. ;) )

 

What I'd really like is some feedback: what parts of the site are slow for you? Which parts are fast? Have you seen things get better, or worse? Are there specifics days or times when the site is especially fast or slow? Let me know! The more info you give us, the better we can make the site.

 

Thanks!

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First post!

Posted August 24th, 2007 at 10:40pm

First post! And I'm not even here.

 

Yes, I'm posting to say I'm on vacation on the west coast (Vancouver, BC if you're curious). I'll be back in about a week. Once I get back, I plan on using this a little more actively (i.e. "at all"), and talking both a little bit about me as well as about the things going on behind the scenes at BP.

 

Anyways - enjoy your week, I'll do my best to enjoy mine, and I'll see you all in a bit.

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personal message

Hey all. How`s it going? I work here, in Operations - we`re the group that wakes up at 3 am to fix the servers when BP (or AA or MG) have problems.

I`m a self-trained sys-admin who studied art in college and the single father of 2 adorable children. I`m also a born and bred New Yorker, living in Brooklyn.

I like taking photos, although don't have much time to do it in any sort of serious fashion, or enough money right now to get any serious equipment. But I've got a digital camera (like everyone else) and I like taking some snaps. You can check out my photos in my Photo Gallery, or just scroll down to see a few of them!

Enjoy the site - and drop me a line sometime.



"I`m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist always has to be out of step with his time."
-- Orson Welles

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
-- Theodore Roosevelt


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