Employment Site Traffic Has Ups and Downs
The first week of a new year, people want two things overall: a new body and a new job. Last week we found out that on New Year’s Day, visits to dieting websites spiked by 57 percent. By the end of the week it seems all that dieting is going toward a new suit as visits to job site jump by 31 percent.
Invalidating the Linux Buffer Cache
When you write data, it doesn’t necessarily get written to disk right then. The kernel maintains caches of many things, and disk data is something where a lot of work is done to keep everything fast and efficient.
TypePad Menus (And Getting Rid of the Border)
Have been doing some development work for a business blogging customer of ours, and again need to send out mad props (that’s what the kids these days say, right?) to John T. Unger and his Typepad Hacks site.
What Should A Home Server Cost?
The big unanswered question with Windows Home Server is how much it’ll cost you to get one.
Integrating w/ (Future) Competition
Alex Fletcher has a nice list of hypothetical new year’s resolutions for the open source community.
Completely Missing The Point About Browser Safety
Apparently, if certain directions aren’t written in bold-face type that practically scream at you, it’s not your fault if your kid accesses pornography, or at least that seems to be the mentality of some knee-jerk news reporters in the Internet news world. According to an article appearing at WFAA.com (beautifully pointed out by Techdirt), the […]
Getting 1,000 Shots of CES?
Well I think my goal of getting 1,000 shots of CES up online before heading back home to San Francisco may be tougher than I thought.
iPhones, Sports and Social Media
Introducing the biggest buzz attractor of the year (I know it’s early 07 but this particular object has everybody buzzing like mad) – the newly announced Apple iPhone. Before I get to the social media ramifications of this announcement, Endgadet has a great write-up about the iPhone – including some incredible pics of it in […]
Should Brand Owners Get a Cut from Google?
The Googlejet blog has a pretty original idea: Why not send a cut of brand name AdWords ads to the brand owner?
Pubs vs. Online Social Networks
It’s 3.30AM in the morning, you’ve been awake now for a couple of hours after getting up for a drink of water.