Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
I love how responsive design is seen as this new idea, allowing your website to adjust to different display sizes and types… when it was one of the original design principles of the web.
Google’s Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO
There are fewer SEO drawbacks when using responsive design versus a lightweight mobile version, but a mobile site can work just as well as responsive design, as long as you avoid dividing your PageRank…
Interesting breakdown of how websites use space on their home pages…and which pieces their visitors actually care about.
Homepage Real Estate Allocation
Websites spend too little homepage space on content of interest to users and fail to utilize modern screen sizes. It’s worse now than it was 12 years ago đ
So that’s why the lagoon currently next to the Long Beach Convention Center is called Rainbow Lagoon.
Interesting: Facebook cross-references the leaked Adobe passwords and email addresses to see which of their own users are using the same password on both sites.
[dead link, was on Sophos’ blog]
An interesting study on just how long hard drives last.
How long do hard drives actually live for? | ExtremeTech
For more than 30 years, the realm of computing has been intrinsically linked to the humble hard drive. Given our exceedingly heavy reliance on hard drives, and their key role in the expansion of personal…
An interesting metaphor, and it certainly fits with the way I’ve looked at Google, Amazon, and Apple’s strategies.
Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile
Hereâs the frame that I use: Apple sells systems. Google sells services. Amazon sells content. Microsoft, in general, sells software, although thatâs changing now.
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Graduating to a toddler bed is a great responsibility…
If someone can change the download page, they can change the hash too. If you sign the code with a secret key, they have to steal your key too — and you should be keeping that off of your web server.
ISC Diary | PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes
PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes, Author: Johannes Ullrich
According to @badastronomer, it’s Mole Day. So at 6:02 on 10^23, have some chips with Avocado’s Number Guaca-mole
Well, it’s perfect that I ended up writing up this section in the Halloween season. Someone’s sneaking around Cosette’s garden at night, freaking her out. But wait: That shadow was just a chimney! Well, maybe…if chimneys can run away when they’re spotted…
For some medical conditions, telling the people around you is actually a safety concern. I’ve got severe food allergies. I can’t join coworkers for Thai food. If an event is catered, I need it to include something I can eat, and I need to be able to trust that my coworkers aren’t mixing up the food I can’t eat with the food I can. If I go into anaphylactic shock, it would be helpful if someone knew what to do while waiting for the paramedics to arrive. I certainly don’t make it the subject of every conversation, but when food is involved, it comes up…and frankly, it *has* to.
Warning! The Things You Must Not Tell Anyone At Work
There are some things we shouldnât tell anyone at work. Sharing the âwrongâ things with co-workers can quickly backfire and leave us exposed, vulnerable or side-lined.
Riiiight âI don’t think we should keep trying the same thing over and over again, & think only a minority think that” https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-republicans-government-shutdown-20130930-story.html
10 Books People Pretend Theyâve Read
I’ve read eight of them, six for school and one as part of a book club. Three guesses as to which one I read entirely on my own initiative.
âStop spy on us!â 14 NASA sites hacked
From the “off by one” department: Hackers deface NASA sites demanding that they stop spying. Though as the article suggests, NASA’s websites are probably easier to break into than the NSA’s.
Bill Watterson: A Cartoonist’s Advice
If you aren’t already following Zen Pencils, perhaps this will convince you.
It’s sort of an ad for the particular provider, but it makes a good point: If your computing needs fluctuate significantly (by season, by time of day, by event, etc.), it’s better to have a system that will adjust to changing demand instead of wasting resources (and money) by always running at maximum capacity.On a small scale, that might be adding/subtracting memory from a VPS. On a larger scale, it might be creating extra servers as they’re needed and letting them vanish when they aren’t.
Moving Seasonal Businesses to the Cloud
This article presents a case study on how seasonal businesses can leverage and gain advantage by using cloud technology.
Ouch
Steve Ballmer, the C.E.O. of Microsoft, announced this morning that he will retire within the next twelve months. In response, the company’s stock surged. That is not what you want to happen when you leave a large publicly traded company. Full article at New Yorker
How TCP/IP eclipsed the Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for computer networking
I remember learning about the OSI seven-layer network model in college, but OSI it was already more or less irrelevant as anything but a way of conceptualizing networking. The main thing that sticks in my head is an analogy to the Taco Bell seven-layer burrito, with each ingredient mapping to one of the layers.
Faulty genetic pathway is a potent player in many types of allergies, say researchers
A report on the study’s findings, published July 24, 2013 in Science Translational Medicine, shows that aberrant signaling by a protein called transforming growth factor-beta, or TGF-beta, may be responsible for disrupting the way immune cells respond to common foods and environmental allergens, leading to a wide range of allergic disorders.
Interesting research on one possible cause of food allergies.
Interesting analysis. For one thing, people share a *lot* more on mobile devices than on desktops or laptops. For another, Apple users on any device share a lot more than PC, Android or Blackberry users. But the really interesting thing is where you find different services on different classes of devices. iPhones are dominated by Facebook. iPads, however, are dominated by Pinterest.
ShareThis: Mobile vs Desktop: A Cross Device User Study
Put sharing to work with innovative sharing tools. Turn sharing behavior into value with share buttons, plugins and analytics for publishers, and media solutions for advertisers.
