Things have been moving extremely quickly in our run up to the week of Macworld over the past few days. Because I have so little time, I am proceeding to engage in a massive brain dump. In no specific order, here we go: I've secured a G4 Powerbook to use next week from our good friend Adam Received the Eye-Fi and discovered that it is extremely close to being able to perform the tasks I wished, but falls oh so short. I'll talk about those in an upcoming article on the device on Infinite Loop. Besides not being able to ...
As far as music, I must say that 2007 was a banner year for music. I got into French electro music in a big way at the same time I became more interested in "older" music like Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and Stevie Wonder (amongst others). In terms of live music, I saw Roxy Cottontail live at Sonotheque, Flosstradamus on a few occasions, Cartel at the House of Blues, Jack's Mannequin at the House of Blues, and Justice twice (once at Smartbar and again at the Metro). I know it's not a lot of shows, but I think I made ...
I thought I'd compile a list of statistics about my blogging activity and the attention my site has gotten over the past seven years! Here's the standard stats I took from my Wordpress install over at http://phaedo.cx: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 Posts 183 172 458 494 448 78 22 Comments 508 292 391 371 220 12 0 Ratio 2.77 1.69 0.85 0.75 0.49 0.15 0.00 Avg. Post Length 1450 841 926 1184 1065 812 499 Total Len of Posts 259k 141k 414k 571k 466k 61.9k 10.7k Here are a few visual representations of this data, courtesy of ...
Everyone else is doing it so I thought I'd take a peek into my analytics and see what the most popular posts of the past year have been. Without further delay: Tools for optimizing your website: Etag and Expire headers in Django, Apache, and Lighttpd. I put together this post to address methods for improving the performance of your website, whether you're using Django, Apache, or lighttpd Changes in Djangos management. The Django team made an important decision in regards to processing bug reports and tickets in the run up to 1.0. This was at the very beginning of the ...