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Archive for the 'Observations' Category
I subscribe to many newsfeed-like blogs where articles and posts are submitted by a range of publishers. One of the more essential jobs in such a set-up is that of the editor: the guy who goes through each article as it’s posted1 to ensure the spelling, grammar and style are both correct and in keeping with the rest of the blog. There are times, however, when an over-zealous bogger will happily submit his article to the live site before its moderation, and whence stems today’s post from me.
Continue reading ‘Tense about tenses’
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I think I’ve just been outgeeked!
I didn’t even know that was possible.
You don’t know how much I smiled when I saw this was encrypted.
It’s currently taking upwards of 30 seconds to open a webpage on Reznet. I’m beginning to wonder how they sleep at night charging us for this level of service.
Click the picture for a song dedicated to you!
My friends have many features
Many reasons, I can believe them
My friends have many things that
I am needing, to keep me singingYeah, you’re a friend of mine
You’re a friend of mine
Yeah, you’re a friend of mine
You’re a friend of mineMy friends have many mountains,
Many mountains that I can breathe in
My friends have many houses,
Many caves I can choose to live inYeah, you’re a friend of mine
I love these friends of mine
Yeah, you’re a friend for life
I love these friends of mineMy friends have many pathways,
Many roads that I can choose to take
My friends have many highways,
Where I can find my way back home againYeah, you’re a friend of mine
I love these friends of mine
Yeah, you’re a friend for life
I love these friends of mineMy friends have always been there,
To help me shape my crooked features
My friends have picked me up again,
And pushed my enemies out of the pictureYeah, you’re a friend of mine
You’re a friend of mine
Yeah, you’re a friend of mine
You’re a friend for lifeI love these friends of mine
I love these friends of mine
You’re a friend of mine
I love these friends of mine
I love you guys. I don’t think I say that enough.
Many thanks go to Marianne Faithfull for putting in words what I never could.
Yes that’s right! After this post, my homepage has risen to number one in the google results!
Woop woop!
Alarmingly, smokers die younger is second…. what the hell do the two sites have in common?
I’ve just discovered a truly odd thing. I use Google Analytics (among other things) to track stats about my site, on the basis that eventually something might actually come of all this blogging malarkey and it might be interesting to have some historical data, and/or be easily able to get visitor profiles and ideas about what content visitors are interested in.
So today I reviewed the search engine referrers data to see what keywords people use to find my site, and discovered that twelve times someone (I assume an RHBNCA BB user or users) has found my website by Googling for "shameless homepage". Now quite frankly I’m amazed that my website shows up as the number two link in the search results, given that I know of quite a few websites that might fit the description of a "shameless website" much more so than mine! If not those examples, perhaps even the show.
For those (few) of you who read my blog and are not members of RHBNCA BB, Shameless is my ID on the forum (for reasons not worth going into — it’s nothing sordid, believe me) so I can see how somewhere in the 16,435,678th place you might find my website, but SECOND? How has that happened? Somehow the three forums1 where I have used the name Shameless are better pageranked than any of the other examples.
More amusingly (possibly) the (very) old Stumble Inn BB still ranks highly in those same results. You’ll find it cleverly disguised as 134.219.202.175 as the SU has long since sold their soul to the devil, and hence is not allowed to host its own discussion forums1. As an aside, I was most confused to find out that the SU has abandoned the perfectly reasonable www.su.rhul.ac.uk as a domain name and adopted www.surhul.co.uk. One might think they’d at least have their old webpage 301, or meta, redirect to the new one instead of displaying the Apache blurb as it does now…
So, after all that… anyone care to own up to performing that Google search?
1 I REALLY want to say fora here, but there are some convincing arguments not to.
Many people love him, many people hate him, more still have never heard of him, but I can’t help but agree with the following excerpts from Bruce Schneier’s August 24 2006 posting entitled ‘What the Terrorists Want‘ in his comprehensive and easily read blog ‘Schneier on Security‘:
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.And we’re doing exactly what the terrorists want.
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"The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that. And our job is to fight those politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote security theater that wastes money and doesn’t make us any safer."
Thoughts? Comments?
