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Archive for January, 2007
Flickr: My Photo Mods
In: Photos
20 Jan 2007I am starting to play with Gimp and some of the photos I have been taking with the new camera.
This is my favourite mod so far. I call it Altar of the Everyday.
Technorati tags: flickr, gimp, altar of the everyday, z612, photography
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Technorati: Some days you get the bear…
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
19 Jan 2007Dave Sifry and his team have been very good to me. You know, bite the hand, etc.
But I got up from my afternoon siesta, and found this,
And when I finally did get a copy of the page…
Ouch.
Wonder what a Technorati Monster looks like….
UPDATE, 17:19 Jan 19 2007: Technorati sites are back up. Good to see [...]
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My code is like a tank
19 Jan 2007Chatting 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.
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Kodak Z612: The first picture
19 Jan 2007I 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
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Telecommuting and Career Advancement
18 Jan 2007The Network World article on telecommuting appears to be getting a lot of play this morning on the RSS feeds.
I agree with Daemon at the Web Worker Daily: Yeah, and your point?
I learned a long time ago that I would NEVER be happy as a do-nothing management hack (whoops! did I say that out loud?). [...]
GrabPERF: Digg Measurements Disabled due to Firewall
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
17 Jan 2007I have had to disable the Digg measurements in GrabPERF as a number of the monitoring locations have been blocked by the Digg firewall.
Technorati tags: GrabPERF, Digg, digg.com, firewall
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Flickr: Escaping Golden BC
In: Life
17 Jan 2007I 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 [...]
Flickr: When the cable breaks…
In: Life
17 Jan 2007When I lived in Victoria, BC, there was always a ship idling in the harbour, engine turning over, a low steady hum that was always there when you went to the water.
Well, they have built an on-shore power plant for that ship, and it looks like they may have brought in a new one, but [...]
TechCrunch: Ever heard of HTTP Compression?
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
16 Jan 2007It’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. [...]
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Nissan: RFID Helps Pedophiles
In: Life| RANTING| Technology
16 Jan 2007Ok, 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 [...]