Archive for August, 2006
August 19th, 2006
Three weeks behind! What can I say… I suck. 10 definitions of Web 2.0 and their shortcomings at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media - What is Web 2.0? I’ve been asked that a couple of time. The answer isn’t easy. Web 2.0 is not one thing but a combination of philosophy, technology, and aesthetics. [...]
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August 10th, 2006
Didi Bethurum, User Experience Program Manager for Windows marketplace, has aplogized for hotlinking to an image on my sever and the way it “screwed [me] up”. Honestly it didn’t screw me up; besides it gave me something to blog about. It just threw my statistics off for a few days. Yesterday, I had 1180 requests [...]
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August 9th, 2006
I warned them that hotlinking is rude but they didn’t listen. I gave him a week so drastic measures were needed (don’t worry, no porn). Let’s see if he gets the hint now. Oh and serving this single image now accounts for 26% of my daily traffic. Update: That was effective. In case you missed [...]
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August 8th, 2006
This little Fry’s ad caused a little ruckus among my electrical engineer co-workers. First a 1.5 Farad capacitor! That is just huge. Most capacitors are in the microfarads (millionths of a farad). From what I understand these large capacitors are used for the soul purpose of ensuring that your car stereo provided maximum pain to [...]
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August 4th, 2006
Over at the Inside Windows Marketplace blog someone (I believe a MS employee) has linked to my website. Normally this would be a good thing. The MSDN blogs get quite a bit of traffic and some of that traffic would bleed over to my page. Unfortunately they didn’t include a hyperlink to my site but [...]
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