Asymptomatic

Mess with gravity in your own home.

I picked this up from Scott’s site: If you know me, please fill out this Interactive Johari Window, which will compare what you think of me to what I think of myself.

Here’s the best way to let your boss know you care.

A chart of the top and bottom twenty performers at Grabperf.

Have you noticed slowness when posting lately? I’ve seen more than a few recommendations on how to fix this issue, but no real fix for the fix.

WordPress 2.0 has moved the essential trackback/pingback/enclosure mechanics into a special script that gets loaded separately from when you publish a post. Instead of cycling through all of the pingbacks and trackbacks that it has queued before returning control to the browser (like in version 1.5), the publication process spawns a request for the special script and just continues normally.

The result is that you don’t wait for pingbacks to finish when you publish, and they still get published properly, but in the background. So what’s causing the big delay these days, if that mechanism is set up to prevent it?