The Gap Between Google and Rivals May Be Smaller Than You Think – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com Over the last 5 years or so I have seen, based on traffic to my sites, Yahoo and Microsoft (MSN, Live and now Bling) fall to less than 5 percent total share of all traffic… combined. I didn’t [...]
Category Archives: General
Being modern
6/11/2009 – 11:12 am
.!. Op-Ed Guest Columnist – Notes From the Chairman – NYTimes.com “Jazz is about the moment you’re in. Being modern’s not about the future, it’s about the present.”
A brief analysis of social media spam
2/28/2009 – 10:43 pm
A fun little post over on the StyleFeeder tech blog about social media spam.
Douglas Bader quote
1/25/2009 – 4:44 pm
“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.” from Douglas Bader on Wikipedia
You can’t possibly be serious
11/20/2008 – 8:59 pm
I wanted to futz around with Django tonight, so I figured I’d update my installed version with the latest release, but I didn’t count on having to deal with crap like this in order to get the python MySQL driver working on the current version of OS/X. I’d understand if I was trying to install [...]
The Global Pool of Money
9/22/2008 – 8:44 pm
I remember listening to this TAL show while driving in my car earlier in the summer. The Global Pool of Money seems like something that our politicians should have been listening to for years, but I’d have been happy if they had started paying attention to this mess before, well…
Amazon finally launches a CDN
9/18/2008 – 10:59 am
That only took 21 months since I asked them nicely. What I don’t like about what I’ve read so far is that they are not using a lazy-loading proxy (ala Akamai, EdgeCast, Panther) and are instead opting for S3 as the content origin. That sucks, because it basically means that you have to do something [...]