Category: Thoughts
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IT Terminology – Hard Drive Jenga
Hard Drive Jenga A term used to describe removal of Hard Drives from a RAID storage array where the objective of the game is to remove as many drives as possible without the array collapsing causing catastrophic data loss. Not for the faint hearted! Not to be confused with Hard Drive Dominoes (another fine example).
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Experimenting with Googlebot
In my previous post ‘Blogs are fundamentally flawed…‘ I noted an observation that more often than not search results would direct a user to an index-style page containing the post instead of directly to the ‘permalink’ location of the post. This leads to a poor user-experience from the visitor’s point of view, on busy blogs…
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Blogs are fundamentally flawed for the typical Grandma-User
It may seem a little sad but I can honestly say that reading my access_log is far more interesting than any soap opera on TV; they are filled with exotic foreigners, futuristic robots, drama, intrigue and personal tragedy. The best thing about it is that it’s all real; these are (mostly) real people who stumble…
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Horde 3.0.8 appears to be broken
Horde is an application framework used by a web-based email client IMP I use to read my email. From the Horde site [www.horde.org]: The Horde Project is about creating high quality Open Source applications, based on PHP and the Horde Framework. The guiding principles of the Horde Project are to create solid standards-based applications using…
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‘NASA Search 1.0’ ??? Something Google should worry about ???
Having written my own WordPress logging / statistics plug-in over the weekend – which still in prototype, consider it a ‘coming soon’ – I have started to notice more and more peculiar User-Agents visiting my blog. I quite like to keep an eye on what spiders / bots visit my sites, how often they return…