Traffic - OUCH!
Well, November was a pretty miserable month. I didn’t get to do anything I wanted to do with this blog because I simply didn’t have enough time. Oh well. I open December with open arms - there is no way it can be as bad as November was. In a nutshell, traffic dropped by about 50%, but subscription is up by a good 20% (nowhere near my predictions - and it could have been much worse… but still… ick). Hopefully this month I will be finishing up my CMS - getting some of my little projects done - and will finally be able to focus on this blog once again.
Is Your Blog GZipped?
Nusuni Dot Com has been gzip compressed for a while now thanks to a nice hack for WP-Cache. Someone asked me why I did this - and this tool answers that question. It saves me 66% of the bandwidth by compressing it. According to the tool, MacBros could save around 76% if he enabled it, Pelf saves around 71%, etc. While compression can put extra stress on the server - it can save quite a bit of bandwidth if used properly.
Top 10 Sexiest Tech Women
Am I the only one who has only heard of like 2 of them? Maybe I don’t follow tech crap enough or something…
Completely Offtopic: Local Man Only Gets 5 Years For Child Sexual Abuse!
OK, this is just disturbing on so many levels. A local man (I live in upstate NY, near Syracuse) was sentenced to… get this…. only 5 years for sexually abusing his 11 year old son! I hope his “buddies” in jail rip him apart. Back in school we had a substitute who used to be a Prison Guard and once said inmates 100% despise child predators and they often get loose and beat the crap out of them. We can only hope the same happens to this fellow. Seriously, WTF?
Digg-Style Voting For Google?
Google, you have answered my prayers! They are experimenting with Digg-style voting functionality for search results! This is something I have kinda wanted for a while now.
Microsoft Loses In Frivolous Patent Suit
It isn’t any secret that I’m not a big fan of patents - especially software patents. This is yet another example of why.
OS Evolution
Isn’t it amazing how little our systems have changed over the years? Back in the 80s we (well, not me.. I was only born in 89… heh) envisioned 3d desktops and little computer watches. What do we have instead? The same thing they had then - dull little icons, windows… and menu bars. Call me in another 20 or when OSes finally evolve a bit.
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December 2nd, 2007 at 6:36 am
I don’t gzip because I get them damn CPU Usage errors to many times as it is now. I’m not to worried about BW as I have more than I can shake a stick at.
Not sure why you would want to shake a stick at your BW anyway, but I heard it’s pretty fun.
You know what. I’m going to go snap a stick off a tree right now and see what all the fuss is about. I might even shake a stick at a few other things too. OH! No wait, I don’t want to be breaking any sticks off of any live trees, so I’ll pick up a dead stick from the ground, or is it different if the stick is fresh or not.
Jeez, all this stick shaking is pretty complicated isn’t it?
OH forget it, I need a beer.
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:37 am
5 years is long enough to be killed isn’t it. I’m sure the other inmates will take care of him.
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:35 am
OK, now that you’ve got my attention, TELL ME WHAT GZIP IS ALL ABOUT!
I went to that “mod_gzip Test” page and entered my URL, but it says “http://chenpn.com is gzipped”.
Huh?!
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:19 am
@MacBros - we can only hope they beat him. Oh, and why not light the end of the stick and see if it makes a difference - at least then you can draw your name with smoke
@Pelf - Gzip just compresses the data your blog sends to each user. It can make your blog load a bit faster (less data to transfer = faster transfer), plus it saves bandwidth.
Do you use WP-Cache? If not, is the “WordPress should compress articles (gzip) if browsers ask for them” option enabled on the Reading Options page for wordpress?
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:27 am
Nope, I don’t use WP-Cache. And the option wasn’t checked before I visited the “mod_gzip Test” page. I checked it AFTER.
Weird..
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Hm, maybe something in your .htaccess or even one of your host’s settings did it automatically?