My ego knowing no bounds I recently installed a spiffy web analyzer called Slimstat. There were problems -- aren't there always? -- but eventually I got it up and running and could see how few people were visiting my site. Then I had to reinstall it, because I had messed up the first time. Now I s...
The things some people will stoop to. I was amazed to discover that the second most popular bookmark on del.icio.us when I looked a minute ago was 13 things that do not make sense. Well, that's not so amazing. What is amazing is that whoever sixside is gave no credit whatsoever to New Scientist,...
A few streams have confluenced to prompt this post. First, a consultant wandered around the corridors at work with an odd-looking keyboard under his arm. I didn’t have anything much to do with him and didn’t really pay attention. Then Paul Ford wrote about the two (main) kinds of distraction on Ft...
The flood of comment spam was getting really bad, so for a while back there I turned off commenting. But it made no difference. I didn’t really understand what was going on, although I’ve been reading a bit about splogs, which as ever are mucking things up for everyone. But I still don’t really...