March 2007
27 posts
Customizing RadiantCMS with Extensions
Sean Cribbs’ presentation on Radiant and writing extensions (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
Corn is not the future of U.S. ethanol: DOE
Thank goodness someone up top has their head on! (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
RIAA Backs Down After Receiving Stern Letter from...
In SONY BMG v. Merchant, in California, the defendant’s lawyer wrote the RIAA a rather stern letter recounting how weak the RIAA’s evidence is, referring to the deposition of the RIAA’s expert witness, and threatening a malicious prosecution lawsuit. The very same day the RIAA put its tail between its legs and dropped the case. (via News dugg by jamiemwilkinson)
Reinventing the Tea Bag
check out this creative tea bag! (via News dugg by jamiemwilkinson)
Zalmay Khalilzad is the man
Frontpage of the NYTimes this morning: ‘Senior American envoy’ Zalmay Khalilzad met with Iraqi insurgents. Interesting stuff.
Wait, what’s that on his bulletproof vest?
It’s official, Zalmay is the man.
Thanks to Annie for spotting this one.
tags: humor,
iraq,
politics
(via Tramchase - Blog)
MacFUSE sshfs vs WebDAV benchmarks
With the wonderful MacFUSE filesystem layer I can mount a remote disk using ssh — awesome. But how does it compare speed-wise to the more universally supported WebDAV? Some quick Xbench that would make my statistics professors blush:
sshfs
WebDAV
Conclusions
Whoa. I mean, whoa.
15.78 to 0.54 — sshfs is almost 30 times faster. No more WebDAV for me.
tags: benchmarks,
sshfs,...
Tribler 3.6 release
“4th gen” social P2P client gets a big facelift, and a Mac binary (!) (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
Slingshot gives a peek at the Joyent Connector...
Joyent leaps into the Rails blogosphere spotlight with Slingshot, a simple way to run Rails apps as desktop applications. I could have certainly used it with the blainedavis.com installation, which ran the site on big ol’ touchscreens. To keep it snappy we ran the site locally using Instant Rails. It wasn’t difficult to setup, but certainly wasn’t compile-&-forget. Like many other commenters...
Dubnet: collusive 4th-gen BitTorrent downloading
I have access to several servers which don’t do much with their plentiful bandwidth. I would like to exploit them to speed downloads to the DubTV, the home-rolled Linux DVR in my living room.
The Dubnet project attempts to provide a layer of communication and collaboration among a small subset of a BitTorrent swarm, providing preferential upload capacity to a central control node. This...
Stefans Webseite - Wiki: DokuWiki Gallery
Improved version of Andreas’ gallery-from-namespace-images plugin (German) (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
6 Bucks For Free
Register for pay-by-text service, make $6. Promotional offers *rock* (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
Officially OurTunes
The OurTunes project and the SaveOurTunes project finally finish merging. Development continues and the villagers rejoice. (via News dugg by jamiemwilkinson)
Faster Google Analytics with a local urchin.js
Cronjob to download it daily, pageloads are sooo much faster. www.google-analytics.com is down right now, too, so it’s really the only way to fly. (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
$6 for free; no joke
At Jelly last Thursday a cash-strapped Adam introduced everyone to pay-by-text service Obopay by texting me a $4 reimbursement for covering his gyro. It was pretty neat — I could actually see myself using the service occasionally. But the best part is that they give you $5 for signing up, and Adam got $5 for referring me… so Obopay paid for both our lunches. Two cheers for insane promotional...
$6 for free; no joke
At Jelly last Thursday a cash-strapped Adam introduced everyone to pay-by-text service Obopay by texting me a $4 reimbursement for covering his gyro. It was pretty neat — I could actually see myself using the service occasionally. But the best part is that they give you $5 for signing up, and Adam got $5 for referring me… so Obopay paid for both our lunches. Two cheers for insane promotional...
Broken urchinTracker calls; Google Analytics down
Noticed Firebug picking up Javascript “urchinTracker is not defined” errors on 6bucksforfree last night ~2am EST but didn’t pay much attention. This morning I’m getting them on every website I load (which certainly says something about the service’s popularity)
Looks like www.google-analytics.com is down, which is the site they suggest everyone use for the urchin.js script.
On...
Broken urchinTracker calls; Google Analytics down
Noticed Firebug picking up Javascript “urchinTracker is not defined” errors on 6bucksforfree last night ~2am EST but didn’t pay much attention. This morning I’m getting them on every website I load (which certainly says something about the service’s popularity)
Looks like www.google-analytics.com is down, which is the site they suggest everyone use for the urchin.js script.
On...
Broken urchinTracker calls; Google Analytics down
Update 3/19 9pm: looks like google-analytics.com is back up. See this tip on how to locally cache urchin.js to avoid this in the future.
Noticed Firebug picking up Javascript “urchinTracker is not defined” errors on 6bucksforfree last night ~2am EST but didn’t pay much attention. This morning I’m getting them on every website I load (which certainly says something about the service’s...
6 Bucks For Free
Register for pay-by-text service, make $6. Promotions offers *rock* (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
$6... for free
http://6bucksforfree.com Register for a new pay-by-text service and they put cash in your pocket, no catch. They want a fair bit of personal information to confirm your identity, but I used this like crazy to pay people back when I was out of cash and it works like a champ, so we hacked our own referral system onto it to spread the love. Kudos for Diggs & delicious bookmarks (via Jamie...
No catch, just 6 bucks for free.
Well, the website wants your social security number and its a roundabout way to gen involved a service of questionable value. But it is, literally, 6 bucks for free. (via News dugg by jamiemwilkinson)
claimID.com - Manage your online identity
nice way to compile all of your sites, and provides OpenID… but then what? (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
Website Grader - SEO Tool
Ranks & gives suggestions on performance (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
Wimpy - Streaming WebSite Audio and Video Media...
Another Flash MP3 player, with simple and more advanced modes (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
Extension:Fotonotes - MediaWiki
MediaWiki extension for fotonotes image annotation (via del.icio.us/jamiew)
God is Vane - Or So Poon Tells Us
How does a counter-culture underground brand strike a balance between being hip and selective yet corporate and profitable? In this interview with Vane creative director Eric Poon, we find out if the pressures of corporate America have gotten to Vane, if his vanity has anything to do with his being single, and why Wal-Mart isn’t all smiley faces. (via News dugg by jamiemwilkinson)
Dan Smith Will Teach You Keystroke Logging
New York City residents should be familiar with Dan Smith’s “Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar” fliers he’s been putting up for years. Well now a computer artist in NY is trying to get everyone to start putting up “Dan Smith Will Teach You” fliers, in their town, to confuse the public at large. Instructions included. (via News dugg by jamiemwilkinson)
