About bloody time: CBC Gets RSS.
Thanks to Dave Winer.
Month: December 2004
In the category of Oxymoron…
Why is the Phoenix Airport called the Sky Harbor? Last time I checked…well, you know where I am going.
Also just noticed that the Typepad editor limits you to 256 Web-safe font colors (16 of which are black!).
When the tracking site goes down…
So, what is a geek to do when SiteMeter goes down? He writes his own tracking code and embeds it on his blog page!
Really simple PHP Code:
<?php
include([DATABASE CONNECTION INCLUDE]);
$logtime = date("YmdHis");
$ipquery = sprintf("%u",ip2long($REMOTE_ADDR));
if ($REMOTE_ADDR != [EXCLUDE SOME IPS]){
$query2 = "INSERT into logger.blog_log
values ($logtime,$ipquery,'$HTTP_USER_AGENT','$HTTP_REFERER')";
mysql_query($query2) or die("Log Insert Failed");
mysql_close($link);
}
print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=[IMAGE FILE]"/>";
?>Then I create a table in my logging database to trap the results. Once I have that, I created an IFRAME call in an MT Typelist and away we go!
There is always a geeky solution to a customer service issue. If this works, I will cancel my SiteMeter subscription.
Need to become a reformed domain squatter
I just had a look at the list of domains that I own and realize that I want/need to clean house. There are 3 domains that I want to keep, and 9 that I am looking to get rid of.
Domains that I want to unload include:
mod-deflate.net
mod-deflate.org
performancecore.org
performancecorps.org
performancefreaks.org
performanceguru.org
webcaching.org
webcompression.org
webperformance.org
I will be re-positioning content from these sites to my remaining domains today/tonight.
New Work Laptop
Ok, so it’s not completely new; it’s recycled from our former CTO. And it came with 256MB of RAM. How can a CTO even consider only 256MB of RAM sexy?
Anyway, I ordered 512MB to supplement whatever I find in here, and off I will go.
And if anyone is curious, it is a Dell Inspiron 8500. A step up from the Thinkpad 600X I had been using. And thankfully this is one of the only Dells with a pencil eraser pointer, not just the glide pad. I have NEVER liked glide pads.
Ok, I have spent the last 3 hours tweaking this thing…off to do something resembling work.
Firefox NY Times AD
I held the NY Times in my hand and was awed by the two-page spread. The people of the Spread Firefox team have outdone themselves.
A PDF of the ad can be downloaded (here and here).
Congratulations everyone.
Doc Searls reminding the Big Players to pay attention
Doc Searls, in a posting today, comments on a message from Doug Knapper of DoubleClick.
I won’t get into it too much as Doc covers most of the concepts pretty clearly. Suffice to say that the Internet DoubleClick was created for has evolved. I recently said in an e-mail "You are now leaving 2004; Welcome to 1999", and this is how I feel when I talk to some companies, especially about the evolving world of Web performance.
We are all connected. We will talk about everything.
Ensight author going Kerouac
Jeremy Wright of Ensight soon will be doing his Jack Kerouac imitation.
Godspeed, fellow traveller.
Blog on Bandwidth Usage of Blogs
I am throwing this into Web performance, because I firmly believe that the use of HTTP as an application platform (commonly referred to as "Web services") will re-invigorate the bandwidth business.
And the fact that we have a blog dedicated to RSS Bandwidth Usage indicates that this will grow if we are not careful.
Compression, use of proper caching and Modified headers are crucial.
Web performance never dies; just gets a new name.
Severe Geekiness
I like this idea: mondo-geekiness.