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I like this idea: mondo-geekiness.

CSS reference on your iPod

It seems that Dave Winer shares my paranoid feelings toward Google.

I have been ranting to friends and colleagues for a long-time that I would never work for Google, as it is going to be the Microsoft of the early 21st Century. The rosy glow will wear off as they become more and more omnipresent.

They also hired a VP away from a company I used to work for, Now, that isn’t so bad, except that this gentleman has a great deal of experience that can’t appear on his resume for reasons of National Security.

Great search engine, but that’s all Google will get from me.

If you want to extend your paranoia, go here and watch the movie.

You would kind of expect it, but to do it in such an obvious way is kind of mind-boggling. Comcast started scanning my home IP every 15 minutes on November 24, 2004 for signs of a live Port 80. A simple IPTABLES rule and that’s the end of that.

Now, that move will likely get me in more trouble than having an active Web server on my IP.

Starting at approximately 18:00 EST on December 14, 2004, Sears began blocking all incoming requests from my public IP address, most likely due to the GrabPERF testing I do from here.

How do I know it’s a filter and not a performance issue? Well, when I re-route traffic through one of the many thousands of open proxy servers available, the page comes up instantly. Also, they are doing a smart thing, and not sending an explicit TCP Reset; they are simply routing the TCP SYN requests into the "bit bucket" — a DROP rule for firewall wonks out there.

I have terminated testing of this site. Guess this means my wife can’t access her order information for the oven part — my bad.

A while back, I suggested that maybe the Mozilla Foundation should save Netscape Server/iPlanet/SunONE. Well, looks like Redhat is going to do it instead.

Somehow this does not fill me with glee.

Ok, I need some help in writing a Regular Expression that will allow me to split up IIS logfiles into a usable format for entry into a database. I have one for NCSA/Apache, but no one on the web seems to have one that I can use for the mangles output that I am getting from the IIS logs I have been asked to analyze.

Drop me a line if you can help out.

Scott Berkun has written a very thoughtful essay on building a better browser (#37 – How to build a better web browser). Scott cut his chops on MSIE 4 and 5, so he has seen the inside of the process used to kill the reigning champion (at the time, Netscape).

Very interesting perspective, placing browser development in an historical (if you can call just over a decade historical) perspective.

Did a Technorati search on Web performance and came up with this interesting little piece of advice on how to implement multi-threading in .NET.

Boost Web Performance With Multithreading

.NET is definitely an improvement over ASP and multi-threading should make it even more better faster!

Thanks to Ahmed Salijee for the data.

So, I am reading Ensight and there it is — a whole list of American bloggers at a Canadian blogging conference.

Guess being a Canadian blogger in the US doesn’t qualify you anymore. Oh well, who would want to go to Vancouver in February…oh yeah…ME.

The MSN Toolbar Suite is out. But not in this house.

Get it now! Free!

Warning! Your browser does not meet the minimum 
system requirements. 
You are recommended to use the MSN Toolbar Suite with 
Internet Explorer 5.01 or later.

Gee, you need to integrate it with MSIE…NOT! Anyone out there going to build a desktop search app that ties into the ‘Fox?

Ok, in the interests of fairness, here is the unabashed positive MSFT view of the toolbar.