I fed a few of my longer blog ramblings into I Write Like and found that I write like Stephen King and Corey Doctorow. Like you, I had no idea who Corey Doctorow was but he sounds interesting. At least I don’t write like Stephanie Meyer, so I’ve got that going for me.
An interesting web comic/graphic I found on the tubes. I can see that that there’s a lot of truth in this. In today’s society, we do indeed have in infinite appetite for distractions which lead us away from what is really important in our lives and I’m somewhat guilty myself. Can these distractions ruin a person? You betcha.
I was called as Ward Clerk last week at Mandurah Ward. One of the first things I wanted to implement was to have all leadership using a domain email address rather than a mixture of isp.com.au, hotmail.com and yahoo.com addresses. So I registered mandurahward.net, and have been busy adding aliases for people (name@mandurahward.net) and callings (calling@mandurahward.net) to etc/aliases. Advantages include:
I might open it up to the general population but for now it’s just leadership. Soon I’ll set up mailing lists for PEC organisations etc. This system worked well at Canning when I was there.
Is it cheating if I forward all my email to Gmail? My domain email all for appearance and vanity, but Gmail is what I use to manage it.
If you’re still using MS Internet explorer, why? Do yourself a favour and start using Google Chrome. Why? Let me tell you:
Google Chrome is an almost complete ground up web browser design, making much better usage of memory management:
With the current versions of Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, individual Web page tabs are hosted in a single process – a model that is efficient (in terms of memory and resource consumption) but also prone to catastrophic failures: A single crashed tab can easily take down the entire browser application. Chrome seeks to eliminate this problem by isolating each tab within its own application process, then leveraging the built-in memory protection capabilities of modern, preemptively multitasking operating systems to keep code and data in a failing tab from stomping on other processes. So now, when that buggy Flash applet on your favorite humor site goes belly up, it won’t necessarily take down the entire browser – the processes running in other tabs will keep chugging along.
Google Chrome is very fast:
On each one of these tests, Chrome clearly trounced the competition. I hope benchmarking experts and developers will weigh in with comments about how well these tests represent true JavaScript performance on the Web–either for ordinary sites or for rich Web apps.
Google Chrome is very secure:
Google’s Chrome was the only browser left standing—and in fact, was completely untested. None of the researchers at the competition even tried to attack Chrome… Google’s sandboxing shouldn’t be impenetrable, but it is sufficient to make the standard harmless exploit payload—starting up Windows calculator—harder to do.
MSIE just doesn’t have what it takes to run Google Wave:
Google Wave depends on strong JS and DOM rendering performance to provide a desktop-like experience in the browser. HTML5’s offline storage and web workers will enable us to add great features without having to compromise on performance. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer, still used by the majority of the Web’s users, has not kept up with such fairly recent developments in Web technology.
But if you are stuck with uncompromising IT staff or your own ignorance, then you can install the Google Chrome Frame into MSIE for a Wave experience by logging into Wave.
Just for the hell of it, I’m making this blog entry entirely in Google Wave. It’s my little effort to get more of my friends and associates to start Waving. The contents of this wave include discussions and tips on Facebook, and links to sites and useful tools to keep your Facebook data private. Use your Google ID to sign up for Wave, or ask me and I’ll send you an invitation.
I logged into facebook and found that Mark Webber had accepted a friend request I made. I can’t actually remember when I made the request, but it seems he’s finally got around to hiring someone to start bulk accepting them. So it’s good to know I’m one of his 2600 closest friends. I’ll invite him over for dinner next time he’s in town.
I’m also friends with Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki who probably makes the best use of Facebook and Twitter of anyone I’ve seen. He invites people to hit him up on these during his live radio show on Triple J and sometimes gets good feedback.
I can’t remember how, but I managed to become friends with Sara Ramirez at one point. It was interesting watching her profile and how she attempted to manage the many “I luv u so much” posts on her wall. To her credit she gave it a good go, but it lasted only a few weeks before she bailed out. Facebook isn’t really the place for celebrities especially if they want privacy.
Also, I heard my sister’s cat got run over last night. Very sad as Natalie really loves her animals.
Well, maybe it’s a little harsh to call Twitter stupid. At the very least it is silly, borderline idiotic. It’s a strange hybrid of a forum and a blog, but nobody is saying anything useful or meaningful. It’s the world’s largest intellectual toilet bowl. Comparing to other social media sites, it’s hard to find a single redeeming quality for Twitter. I have a personal Twitter account, yes, and I’ve even posted once on it. But I felt dirty afterwards. Also I found that for some reason I had over 20 “followers” until I culled them, but they were mostly porn sites. To try and drive traffic to my other projects, I’ve got other twitter accounts but I’m getting a close to 0.0% ROI for my effort on those. Does it work for anyone? I can’t find any data supporting this.
All I imagine Twitter to be (if you’re not a celebrity, product or service) is full of young, insecure, immature noobs who take pleasure in how many “followers” they have and waiting for some shred of acknowledgement from other twitterers.
Mind you, I’ve blogged every day for three weeks now and haven’t said anything useful or meaningful yet. So maybe it’s not just Twitter, but the whole Internet is stupid.
I just checked out the Google Analytics stats for my blog for the first time in a while. Google Analytics tells me that my blog has been taking almost 400 unique visitors a day for the last few days. Along with 4.1 pages per visit, that’s over 1500 page views per day. I can’t explain why, but perhaps I’m tapping into the lucrative Star Destroyer Wallpaper market from a few days ago. That’s up from an average of about 100 or so new visitors a day for the last month. At least my SEO-fu is working.
Google Analytics also tells me that the most common searches which lead to my blog were these:
Just who is Brian Kerle’s wife? I really can’t explain that one. Brian Kerle was coach of the Brisbane Bullets from (I had to look this up as memory fades) 1984 to 1992 plus a couple other years when he came out of retirement and was inducted into the NBL Hall of Fame in 2006. I can’t find who he married, though, or why there would be such interest in his wife.
Now if I could just drive all this to DarthVaderFigures.com, which is enjoying about 12-15 visitors a day, although it is steadily increasing by 1 visitor a day per month on average since New Year. In fact, if you’re reading this then go there now and see if you can skew my stats.
I call this one “Bett3r, 5trong3r, Fa5t3r” because it looks like the Olympic rings and because I’m techo and hip and edgy and L33T.
I call this one “Dusting Crops”, because traveling through hyperspace isn’t like dusting crops, boy!
You can make one too by visiting Flame. The main tool is the brush with which you paint. You can change the color, saturation and opacity. You can also change the focus of the brush and alter parameters such as chaos and noise. There is a helpful eraser tool, and you can also choose to clear the entire artboard. Working with this tool is a very nice experience.
It was 25 years ago on 15th March that the first domain name, symbolics.com, was registered. Before we started assigning names to hosts we needed to refer to web sites by a complex string of numbers and dots. This, along with DNS and text-based or GUI web browsers, made it way simpler for users to find their way around the webz. Since then. about 80 million domain names have been registered. I would have had a hand in registering a couple thousand of them while working at iiNet as part of my job. Wow, 25 years. The Internet was a small place back then. It’s hard to believe there was a time when the Whole Internet Catalog was even possible.
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