Justin Germino Ramblings

I am still struggling with some issues with my new VPS hosting from MyHosting and working to iron out the details and figure out how to solve the problems.  My latest issue was when trying to setup Amazon S3 for my JustinGermino.com blog and just trying to sync files with the W3 Total Cache plugin caused the entire VPS to go down.

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In addition my wife noticed she can recreate this issue sometimes when uploading images to her blog site.  There seems to be some issue with # of connections or something that keeps the VPS unstable.

I am working with the MyHosting tech guy who brought me in and helped tune things previously to see if we can increase stability and figure out how to resolve these issues.  I checked online and couldn’t find anything at all with Google searches even closely related to my issues and since my entire VPS collapses when I test this I can’t really watch logs or performance in real time since all my connections get disconnected.

In the meantime, I may be having some random outages on my Poetry, Personal blogs until we get this figured out and resolved.

-Justin Germino

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I have to admit that this was a cool game trailer to an update for League of Legends. I found the game to be incredibly difficult and faction based, my son originally started playing and I joined him in a game but found it to be a frantic nearly endless battle. I run to help others fight, die, respawn, repeat over and over for 45 minutes a gaming session. I wish there were a little more story and a little less constant battling over and over but it was fast paced and furious. I am just not ideal at multiplayer tactical combat games even if they are RTS style (except you have 1 unit only with the ability to customize with equipment/potions).

Still, the game was fun even though I am not good at it and it is popular. Here is the trailer for League of Legends: Demonblade Tryndamere

How many of my readers are fans of League of Legends?

-Justin Germino

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I have always been a fan of Fig Newtons, but the traditional cake like snack is packed full of calories and isn’t exactly the healthiest treat.  So when I saw that Newtons had some fruit crisps which were lighter and had fewer calories I decided to give them a try.

The only package I bought so far was the [easyazon-link asin=”B004FEN3GA”]Newtons Fruit Thins Blueberry with Brown Sugar[/easyazon-link] and they were delicious.  3 crisps have 140 calories but my only problem is forcing myself not to eat 5-10 crisps in a single snack session.  It makes me wonder if the [easyazon-link asin=”B004FEJ968″]Cranberry Citrus Oats Newtons Fruit Thins[/easyazon-link] are as good and I may try them next.

If you are looking for a fruity snack and a fan of Fig Newtons, I was pleasantly surprised with the new fruit crisps offering from Newtons.  They are delicious and though they are lower calories I have a hard time eating only the serving size listed.

-Justin Germino

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Persian Poetess who is one of my writers over at DragonBlogger.com gained early access to Pottermore to help showcase features, tips, clues and breaking news about the new Potter project by J.K. Rowling to DragonBlogger.com fans. She included a great video walk through on the Quill Clues and how to register and gain access to Pottermore. If you are a Potter fan then you should jump on this quickly as only 1 million people will gain early access before Pottermore goes live in October.

Visit Pottermore and the Quill Clues for more information and to watch the video!

-Justin Germino