Chatting with a friend in Australia, and I came up with this gem: “my code is like a tank”.
It’s slow, but built to withstand any sort of shit and abuse. I was describing the code that underlies GrabPERF. It was built to be ignored for long periods of time, performing a lot of self-maintenance.
I am no photo geek, but we finally buckled down and bought a real digital camera: the Kodak Z612.
And here is the first picture out of the camera.
Technorati tags: Kodak Z612, Flickr, digital photography, camera
I spent my entire life escaping from Golden. It’s a much different place, 20 years and one massive ski resort development later.
But, as you got on the Trans-Canada Highway to leave, hopefully for the last time as a 25 year-old grad school dropout, you looked over your left shoulder, and saw this.
[Photo: raarky]
An eerie beauty…the sterotypical vanishing point, where man gives up control to the wilderness he has carved a town from, where the land rises, and swallows your ego.
It’s always funny when somewhat tech-savvy folks purposely make their bandwidth bills higher than they need to be.
Here’s TechCrunch’s HTTP header response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:02:23 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 PHP/5.2.0-8 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8 X-Pingback: http://www.techcrunch.com/xmlrpc.php Status: 200 OK Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Port80 Software’s Compression Checker gives us some idea how much bandwidth Mr. Arrington, et al. could save just by activating this little feature, which comes baked into Apache 2.2.x.
Turn. On. Mod_deflate.
Ok, now that I have your attention…
Nissan has a test program in Japan that is placing receivers in cars to alert drivers when children wearing special RFID/WiFi bracelets are in the area. This is supposedly for the protection of the children. [here]
Do you see a few problems with this, mainly due to the naivete of the implementation?
Pedophiles can’t live near schools or parks, or other places where children gather. Now they will not be able to buy Nissan vehicles, for it could be used as a hunting rather than tracking tool.
The tracking bracelet idea sounds good on paper, but it is extremely naive, and likely will never appear in the US, or any other half-sane nation.
In Victoria, BC, double-decker buses have been used as tourist icons of a faux-english heritage for many years.
Here is what happens when these wonderful old beasts outlive their usefulness.
They deserve a better fate than this.
I have recently discovered the amazing beauty of HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. The amazing vibrancy of the colours seems to fire of the neurons deep in my brain.
And tonight, I found a photographer who is experimenting with HDR pictures of Victoria, BC [here]. The places I know, exploding my crazy mind, reminding me of the vivid way I see the world.
Check it out. See Victoria the way my mind sees it.
Technorati Tags: HDR, Victoria+BC, Victoria, High+Dynamic+Range
Every day, the Digg search measurement times explode.
Maybe they need to look at that code again…
Technorati Tags: Digg, Digg.com, GrabPERF, Web+performance
You may have noticed some subtle changes in the GrabPERF interface over the last few days. I have been tweaking the layout, of only beause I have a weird screen size (1280X800) and some of the text was falling off the bottom of the short screen.
One part of the update you may miss if you aren’t looking is in the top right-hand corner: I have changed the copyright statement to reflect the new owners of GrabPERF
In April 2006, Dave Sifry and the team at Technorati, who have been hosting the service and supplying the hardware since November 2005, bought the service.
I want to thank Dave and his team for putting up with me (I can be a real pain in the ass, especially from 3,500 miles away) and supporting GrabPERF in such a positive way.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Technorati
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