Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

I really enjoyed this video entitled "High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules for Faster Pages" from the Yahoo! Developer Network. When I talk to other people in the technology field we talk about how we can make the server handle requests as quickly as possible. Steve Souders' talk ...

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One of the main features of the iPhone is its built in browser that is ready to surf real websites, not cut down versions designed for mobile phones. From the Apple marketing material: "iPhone lets you see web pages the way they were designed to be seen" However, the popularity of ...

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I heard something downstairs tonight and figured that Reagan couldn't sleep because she was thinking of the upcoming school year. I look to my left and I see that Reagan is still fast asleep. "Oh well, it was probably nothing", I convince myself. Minutes later I hear ...

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I was reading a little bit about Apache optimization tonight and an article suggested offloading all image requests to a lighttpd server via mod_proxy. On the surface it made a lot of sense because a sysadmin can throw mod_proxy and lighttpd up without needing to notify web developers or ...

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Last week I entered a drawing and won a $100 gift certificate to kleargear.com. The question is, what should I get? Help me spend my money.

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Before I switched to WordPress I was constantly dealing with comment spam. To fight it off I wrote my own scripts to blacklist words and URLs. It worked okay but required that I add words to the list every day. Spam has always been a moving target. Since I've used ...

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Public Service Annoucement: Do not forward emails with video files attached. Upload them then share the links. The admin of your mail server will delay slashing your tires until he realizes that your password is password. Total Eclipse of the Heart Easter Bunny If Microsoft had designed the Ipod Kick ...

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Playing around with Dad's video camera last week has me interested in digital video more than ever. I was playing around a bit on YouTube and thought I should share a few links. Large hornet crawls on a persons hand Top 10 baseball fights Randy Johnson destroys a bird Ipod nano running Linux and ...

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I can't tell you how excited I am about Google Video. Media search and playback without giving a rip about the codec. As a Linux user I'm very grateful. My favorite finds: Insane soccer dribble. Lets get this guy on TV to replace some no-talent reality show. Backstreet Boys mockery. ...

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I had this big commentary about this years Linucon event which completed yesterday in Austin. Slade beat me to it. He sums up my feeling quite well. Since I'm not a scifi guy my only interest was in the Linux sessions. I shouldn't complain much. Rather, I should just ...

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