Dear Technorati, Stop adding new features. Make the existing features you’ve shipped actually work. Sincerely, The Blogosphere PS. Tailrank might be a Technorati competitor but I don’t think so. They’re only tangentially related. And we spend a lot of time making sure our features actually work.
Categories: ajax,search,technorati
Since when did the resolver on unix attempt to resolve hostnames in the current domain if ‘search’ isn’t set? It used to be a ‘feature’ where you can specify a search domain (usually the domain where your machine is hosted) so you can connect to the machine with a shorter name. Instead of freedom.example.com you [...]
Categories: linux,open source
With the current version of MySQL there are two threads used by a slave to implement replication. One reads from the binary log of the master and the other one executes the SQL. If you have a master which is being pounded with individual inserts that are happening on parallel threads these will be serialized [...]
Categories: mysql
I’m amazed that we don’t have a Martin Luther King of our generation yet. Why hasn’t anyone stepped up to point out that nonviolence is the only way to protest the war. When you resort to the tactics of your enemy you’re bound to fail. Readers of this blog will remember the name Joshua Sparling. [...]
Categories: politics
There’s a lot of real YouTube talent bubbling to the surface. If anyone from Hollywood’s actually paying attention this could turn into the next American Idol. Ysabella Brave is a good example. She seems like she’s having way to much fun in these videos. Either way hook her up with a paypal donation. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEieFuIWPYc]
Categories: youtube
Remember when blog comment systems added support for nofollow and now there’s no more comment spam? Well now Wikipedia will use nofollow and this should totally solve the Wikipedia spam problem. Think of it! No more Wikipedia spam. Any minute now the spammers will realize that they’re not getting any PageRank so will almost certainly [...]
Do a search on Google maps. Type in “San Francisco, CA”. Notice how the URL doesn’t change? Now do a search on Yahoo maps. It instantly gives you a nice new permalink. Notice there’s no question mark in that URL? They ditched the question mark and just used the hash mark to note the beginning [...]
Categories: ajax
I hate Google personalized search. First. I don’t like people collecting data about my search history. Second. If you copy a URL form Google and paste it into an email it’s a HUGE 800 character google.com redirect URL. It’s 2007 people! Stop using redirect URLs when you can use Ajax.
Categories: google
I hop on the bus after work and JUST as I jump on I accidentally rip the one dollar bill I’m about to use as fare. Seriously. I literally ripped it right in half. I explain to the driver that I don’t have any other one dollar bills and only have a five and four [...]
Categories: san francisco
Well last week I had my new MacBook Pro die because of bad memory. I lost nearly four days of productivity and I’m still trying to catch up. Thank god for backups as I lost the entire disk to do HFS+ btree corruption. Anyway… if I owe you an email or haven’t replied to a [...]
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