29/08/2007 - Wednesday

100th Post

This is my 100th post on this blog so far. I created this one on the 2nd October 2006, so 100 posts in just under 11 months isn't too bad. I know I should post more, and I do try, but most of the posts I could do would just be the same all the time (about website updates and things like that). I prefer my posts to have a specific subject and usually be more than a paragraph long.

To celebrate this milestone I'm going to add averts onto the bottom of the posts (or at least three of them on the main page). It's a new feature of Blogger that I thought I would try out. I already have two advert blocks and I had actually thought about putting some at the end of the posts but my trial attempts didn't work out. Now they're doing it for me so I just had to turn the feature on and it should all work.

Computer Problem

For a while now I've been experiencing rising process id numbers which would hit 450k-480k after 7 days (my computer is restarted every sunday after a defrag). I had recently installed and updated a few pieces of software but wasn't able to track down which one was causing it. I just left it as I didn't really see any adverse effects. On Sunday, after restarting, a popup window informed me that there was a new version of a piece software that I had installed when this all started, so I decided to take a look at what had changed. One of the changes was about fixing a handle leak which would be a cause of the high pid's. After installing the new version of the software the highest pid so far is 38716, which is the pid of the software itself. So it definitely was the cause of the problem. If anyone uses Wakoopa (social website for software) and have experienced the pid problem then you should make sure to install the newer version of the software.