About bloody time: CBC Gets RSS.
Thanks to Dave Winer.
Month: December 2004
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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!).
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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.
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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.orgI will be re-positioning content from these sites to my remaining domains today/tonight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ensight author going Kerouac
Jeremy Wright of Ensight soon will be doing his Jack Kerouac imitation.
Godspeed, fellow traveller.
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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.