Independence Day 2010 holiday hours

Our business offices will be closed on Monday, July 5 to observe the US legal holiday. As always, we’ll provide same-day support for time-sensitive issues via our ticket and e-mail systems. However, questions that aren’t time-sensitive (including most billing matters) may not be answered until the next day, and telephone support (via callbacks) will be available only for urgent problems.

Good news, everyone! Futurama is back!

We’re big fans of Futurama here at Tiger Technologies, so we’re excited about its return to the Interwaves. (We hesitate to make the “Good news, everyone!” reference, but it’s just so obvious…)

We thought the recent 2-hour movies were OK if a little, um, “uneven.” But we have high hopes (“higher than sugar cane growing on Mount Everest”) that the Futurama team will hit their stride and churn out some great episodes.

The fun starts with two back-to-back episodes tomorrow night (Thursday) at 10pm on Comedy Central. Set your TiVo’s!

Even better performance from WP Super Cache

In a previous post, we talked about how increasing the WP Super Cache “Expire time” from 1 hour to 48 hours can help the performance of WordPress blogs.

Here’s another tip that can help dramatically: Remove “bot”, “ia_archive”, “slurp”, “crawl”, “spider” and “Yandex” from the Rejected User Agents box in the WP Super Cache plugin settings. (In most cases, this will leave the box completely empty.)

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