Use Google to search for inurl:/view/index.shtml and spy on people all over the world. I had a bit of fun directing a webcam somewhere in the States that’s watching a building site and busy road. (via)
What’s the most interesting webcam you’ve found?
Yesterday’s announcement, the fiasco on the Late Late Show on Friday night and now Pamela Anderson’s divorce drove a lot of traffic yesterday. (People started looking for her video again!) As you can see from the Google Analytics graph, soon after 8am in the morning the flood started after Ian Dempsey mentioned the birth.
I took the opportunity to move In Photos to a new Xen server on Xen Planet for a short test period. If you see posts there without the comments form you’re looking at the old site and your DNS hasn’t updated yet. It should be complete in a few hours. The new site is a 64MB xen server and it’s holding up well. I’m toying with the idea of using Lighttpd, especially as a lot of thumbnails will be served from that host but I won’t have time to work on that until the weekend. Every night this week is already booked up with one thing or another.
In other news, moving a WordPress site to a new host is fairly painless!
Has anyone else noticed that the new generation of gif based stock-trading spams are getting really hard to read? In the last one I had to squint and look really carefully to find out what stock was hot and a sure-buy today!
For a moment I was reminded of the times when I left comments on a Typepad or Blogspot blog before hitting J to junk the thing. Pretty backgrounds too.
News from Keith is that plans are underway for a BarCamp to be held in Waterford sometime early in the new year. After their positive experience at the BarCamp in Cork, he and Tom Corcoran are planning it, and they can make available, “the facilities of the WIT centre in Carriganore – a superb building situated on its own campus.” Sounds good!
Plans are at an early stage yet, but I think I’ll be able to make the drive there for the day. I haven’t been to Waterford in ages and it’ll be nice to see the place again. Would anyone like to hear about WordPress, WordPress MU or WordPress.com? I’m not saying I will, but maybe …
Check out the Wiki too. That will probably have the most up to date information.
Michael Crook is a shady character who convinced men on Craiglist to reveal photos and personal sexual information about themselves which he published afterwards to embarrass them. He sent a fake DMCA notice Boing Boing in an attempt to stop them publishing a photo of him but they’re laughing at him. Others have now taken up the cause including Thomas Hawk and Fark have a great photoshop contest! Thomas points out that his his real name could be “Scott Vogel”.
The DMCA is supposed to be used for copyright infringement, and he is being sued by the EFF for improperly using it for trying to silence critical sites. Good luck to them!
It’s great when a bully gets what’s coming to him.
Ms. Dewey is the attractive front end of Microsoft Search. She’s entertaining and comments on search items and does her own thing if you leave her alone for a minute or two! Search for President Bush or even gmail for some great stuff! If the search for Yo Mama doesn’t make you smile and laugh I don’t know what will!
That was fun for about five minutes but she’s definitely the most attractive search mascot/helper I’ve seen online and good linkbait to get people to try their search technology! (via the Natural Search Blog)
I’m trying out Firefox 2.0 and first impressions are good. Fonts looks a little different which is refreshing but I’m having trouble exporting my bookmarks from Flock. It looks like others are having the same problem too. There’s even a FAQ about it.
On the Mac, click-and-hold doesn’t bring up a context menu. I’ll have to figure out why. Must be a key combo. Ah! It’s CTRL-click!
If you’re wondering which is better, IE7 or Firefox 2.0, then check out this “unbiased” review:
In one corner we have Internet Explorer 7. After 18 months of development and a shiny new set of tabs, he’s in top shape and looking better than his predecessor ever did. That is, before he entered the ring with Firefox 2.0. Now he’s just a cripple with fancy RSS reading.
Damien’s post yesterday about Thinkhouse PR generated enough interest among bloggers that the story appeared on tailrank.com! Good to see that the issue is being brought to a wider audience.
He updated his final post on the matter saying that he talked to the Data Protection Commissioner and they did not apologise to Thinkhouse PR so I guess that’s that.
No, one final update. It was a Google refresh after all. Adam Lasnik from the Google Search Quality Team commented that Damien’s post didn’t show in the search results, “due purely to algorithmic factor”. It’ll probably come back shortly in other words. Storm in a tea cup? Thinkhouse PR still spammed him and the investigation done was definitely flawed.
After reading Ryan Tomayko’s explanation of REST I’m left wondering if I’ve ever used HTTP PUT. I don’t think I have. Have you?
Don’t be put off by the length of the page, half of it are the comments following the post. I have to agree with the people who complemented his wife on her patience. I can’t imagine many non technical people being interested in the arcane details of http and how the web works. Well done for explaining it well!
Linode.com, where this site is hosted, suffered a distributed denial of service attack this morning. It looks like my two blogs were down and flaky for about 2 hours but things are in hand now and back to normal again! Phew.