Category Archives: Internet

No place can spam like South Florida reports the Sun-Sentinal.

That won't be news to veteran readers of this blog: Spam Comes From Florida? (Feb '04).

Feedburner, the nice people who give me a free RSS feed and some primitive statistics about who reads it have launched a ‘premium’ pay service which offers higher-class statistics. If I were going to spend more money on this site, I would move it to a host which gave me more processing time. Or invest in snazzy graphical design. Or hire a writer. (Just kidding.) But I guess my ego can limp along without knowing details about which posts are getting read more.

The latter part of Burning Questions – The Official FeedBurner Weblog: Premium Service: Total Stats Pro, the new Feedburner FAQ, is sort of cute:

Frequently Asked Questions:
Are you going to start charging for the free service?
No

Does Total Stats Pro cost less if I (am nice, have a short feed, sign up for 3 years in advance)?
No

…

Are you going to say “$4.99 is less than the price of a latte and a bagel” or something like that?
No. We don’t drink lattes so we don’t know how much they cost*. We can and will say that our pricing is lower than comparable web stats pricing.

*We mean no disrepect to anybody that says their product/service prices are lower than the price of a latte, which we think might include the businesses of people with whom we are meeting in the next few days.

You know the wikipedia is famous when it's in the comics.

Today's Foxtrot:

[click cartoon for larger image if it's not legible]

In fact, of course, the wikipedia has quite strong antibodies against this sort of thing. But it's still very funny.

As I write this, I am waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the Google Web Accelerator Download to actually happen.

It's an interesting idea. What I'd like to know is how often they refresh the cache? How will it know when my blog is updated? (And, will it affect counters? I was hoping to hit a million in a year or two…)

Update: I've saved 2.2 seconds! Whooo! (And given up substantial privacy about my browsing habits. What will Google be doing with my complete http: (but not https) clicktrail?)

Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google launcher. A silly game in which they show you a bunch of Google images and ask you to guess the search word that produced them. A third of the time the word appears in the pictures, so this should be easy, right?

I only got 268 points. Rats.