Uncubed: The Life and Times of an Indian Guy named Krishna

Archive for October, 2008

9 items.

On a serious note…

October 30th, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Blog

I’m blogging this from the emergency room hospital. Sonia’s had massive diarrhea which started last night and has only gotten worse today. When I came home from work this evening, Aarti mentioned what had happened. Unfortunately for both of us, our Verizon phones are both dead (our new replacement phones arrive on Friday).

Because we couldn’t communicate by phone, I only realized the seriousness of the issue when I came home. More stuff was coming out of Sonia than going into her; we were quite naturally concerned. She also had a terrible rash on her bottoms, no doubt due to the irritation caused by the diarrhea.

We’ve been here since 8:30PM (it’s 11PM as I write this), waiting for our doctor to look at Sonia. I hope that everything is okay with my baby girl. We’re stressing now, not knowing what could have caused this sudden turn of events.

I’ll try to keep everyone posted.

-Krishna

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Career Aspirations

October 28th, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Comic

Beginning a closer look at how I fell into art… Part 1 kicks off here.

-Krishna

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10 Years of PCW!

October 21st, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Blog

Come on over and celebrate! And try your hand to win some prizes at the caption contest while you’re at it!

-Krishna

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Unfinished Business

October 21st, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Comic

Sorry – I just ran out of time and didn’t get a chance to ink this one up. Maybe I’ll get to it later this week..

We went to Disney World last Wednesday. The four hours we were there amounted to two trips to the Baby Changing Center, one ride on “It’s a Small World”, and a Merry Go Round ride which lasted all of 2 minutes.

The upshot is our trip was free, and Aarti and I met a great couple with their kid. Fun times, but in a different way.

-Krishna

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One Small Step…

October 14th, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Comic

Kids do the darnest things – but why won’t they do it when we want to record ‘em?

-Krishna

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Feeling the Full Brunt of The Digg Effect

October 13th, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Blog

This evening, pcweenies.net experienced the full effect of Digg.com. I was unprepared for the sudden surge in traffic, and my WordPress / ComicPress site went down shortly after the comic made Digg’s first page.

Lesson learned: use WP-Super-Cache to make static versions of the pages that can be used in place of the database driven version which consumes ridiculous CPU under an intense load. In the nearly 10 years that PCW has been running, there has only been one other moment when my site was shut down – that was in 2005 when my traffic blew through the bandwidth as a result from being linked over at PvP.

I’m not sure how long pcweenies.net will be down. I do know that my hosting company, Lunarpages, said I was spiking my shared server with 49% of the CPU. Because of this, they were forced to lock my site’s scripts down.

In the meantime, if you’re visiting over from pcweenies.net via the temp page I’ve posted – welcome. I hope UNcubed will tide you over until pcweenies.net becomes operational.

And hey… at the very least, maybe UNcubed will pick up a few new readers. =)

-Krishna

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More Robots

October 8th, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Blog

More warm-up sketches from last night…

-Krishna

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In the Future…

October 7th, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Comic

Another double-sized edition. Enjoy!

-Krishna

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Updates

October 3rd, 2008 | by krishna

Posted In: Blog

Just finished a double-sized edition of UNcubed – which will appear next Tuesday. If you enjoy reading UNcubed, don’t forget to vote for it at the Webcomics Readers Choice Awards.

Registering to vote is FREE – and votes are cast up until October 14th.

-Krishna

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