http://www.milestonedrive.com Accomplishing my ultimate life goals, milestone after milestone Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:19:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not sure why i didn't put a post up a few days ago to announce this but HBS application is officially submitted. For my two readers out there, make sure you say an extra prayer or two for me. Hopefully I get called for an interview. http://www.milestonedrive.com/hbs-submitted.html I recently added a high-traffic site to my web server, and it gets a significant amount of traffic. The site is local to the worcester area, though, so it isn't a google or anything, but i'd say it gets a good amount of hits each day. Plus, there ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/openx-brought-my-server-down.html I added a high-traffic website to a web server that I configured myself over the last year, and the extra traffic brought it down to its knees. The server would stop responding and report that it was out of resources. After upgrading the server and almost doubling its memory capacity, ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/my-debian-server-died-and-i-still-have-no-idea-why.html I was messing around looking at general open source projects out now, and came across an amazing site.  Open Web Messenger does the job of enterprise support chat clients, but it is free!  I at one point looked into adding this functionality to a client website but they didn't want ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/add-live-web-support-to-your-company-website-free.html I attended a Sloan Admissions Tips session today, one of about 25 or so people to attend.  It seemed pretty informative.  I sat next to a girl who had worked for Lehman Brothers for a few years and obviously was been laid off.  It was uncomfortable because one of my ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/reactions-from-the-mit-sloan-admissions-seminar.html I have a washington mutual credit card, with a modest credit line.  I admittedly ran into some credit trouble and slow payment times when at college, so I like to keep a bit of a balance on my card, hovering right around 30%.  I have savings with ING Direct, making ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/my-credit-card-rate-doubled.html I wanted to write about one more thing, today.  What $700 Billion actually means. In 2006, an estimated 135.5 million americans filed tax returns.  Of those, it's estimated that 32% had zero or negative tax liability.  That leaves 90.8 million people filing tax returns with tax liabilities. Now, I realize that different ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/putting-the-economic-bailout-in-perspective.html So, it's been a while since they've announced the bailout.  I've calmed down a bit, but still think it is somewhat of another "middle class gets screwed" situation. You have an Harvard Business School alumn with a bank account of $700 billion able to write checks to anyone and everyone he ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/more-rant-on-the-economic-bailout.html My Aunt Sydney told my mom about this website that is set up as a "donation" website, however, it goes one step further. The donation you make... gets repaid.  The donation is actually combined with other donations to become a small business loan to entrepreneurs in developing countries.  What a fantastic ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/first-kivaorg-repayment.html I am working on a system that will automatically check email addresses at a specified interval using CRON on a linux machine.  I have my web server available for just such a task, but there has to be a way to easily access POP3 web servers through PHP, right? My initial ... http://www.milestonedrive.com/easy-pop3-access-with-php.html