Slow Performance
It appears the box my sites are on is getting hammered with spam mail, which is spiking the CPU, which is not allowing MySQL to do much work, which is of course slowing VJ Army/Pop’n Navy/the...
View ArticleDon’t Let It Go
This post is going to be somewhat cryptic and bizarre, and I apologize for those of you who end up scratching your heads. I promise, this will be the only one for now. A little over four years ago, I...
View ArticleSlow Country
VJ Army/Pop’n Navy users may be noticing the site is terribly slow. There are a few causes for this – explosive growth in the user base in the past few weeks, my rather poorly optimized code – but...
View Articlebeatmania IIDX RED Rival Exchange
The recently released *[beatmania IIDX RED](http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/bm2dx/11red/)* features a new set of functionality allowing you to load up to five saves from other players into your game as...
View ArticleIllogical
You may have noticed the server is having some availability problems lately. I can assure you that we’re working on it, but at this point it’s pretty baffling. The hardware has been replaced, the OS...
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VJ Army 4.0 Preview
In January of 2004, I launched the first major version of [VJ Army](http://vjarmy.com/iidx/), my Beatmania IIDX score tracking and community site. Since that time, over 2500 users have registered,...
View ArticleVJ Army Thanked In Burning Crusade Manual
I can’t claim discovery rights for this – said credit goes to [Omni](http://omni-remix.livejournal.com/) from my forums – but [VJ Army](http://vjarmy.com/iidx/) was [thanked in the...
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Regret, Sadness, Heartbreak, and Disbelief
It is fall of 2005, and Bemanistyle is down for an indeterminable length of time. An upstart gaming center in Rhode Island called Tokyo Game Action immediately felt the effects of this outage – their...
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Going Beyond
On May 3rd of last year, I made a critical decision that I never spoke about here: I began a shutdown of VJ Army and Pop’n Navy, the two Bemani community sites that had been the lifeblood of my web...
View ArticleGame Over Media Interviewed Me
Back in November, I got an email from a friend-of-a-friend named Alan Flaten, a grad student at University of Florida. One of his projects was related to beatmania IIDX, and he felt that an interview...
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