Archive - Nov 4, 2005

I just got a warning from DreamHost that our resource usage is much too high. I'm now experimenting with limiting the number of articles on the front page, removing some blocks, turning on Drupal's throttling, and reducing the news aggregator update frequency.

After finally having added a few dozen new music videos at its standard $1.99 pricing to go along with the original batch of two thousand videos released last month, Apple appears to be quietly experimenting with different pricing points and methods of packaging its new videos. In a vivid example, the new single "Burn the Witch" from Queens of the Stone Age is a two-track single selling at the oddball price point of $2.49 (possibly the first item in iTunes history to sell at this particular price), and the second track just happens to be a music video.