Archive for the 'interweb' Category

The (real life) Simpsons

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

What’s Up?

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Very nice looking interface to multiple RSS feeds from around the world. Check it out. [Flash.] via Ektopia

MacIE no more <phew>

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

As a huge sigh of relief escapes most web front end developers around the world following Microsoft’s news of their dropping of IE for Mac, I’m quite looking forward to the fact that we’ll be able to test XHTML/CSS on Mac browsers that are more or less sane. It’s fairly amusing seeing MS recommend Safari […]

AJAX and all that jazz

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

I have to say, as a long-time non-fan of Javascript, the idea of depending on it to make things nicer didn’t really appeal. I think my subconcious was successfully preventing me from following those tempting links on Webreference, Sitepoint and of course Adaptive Path, promising me the ability to take my web apps to the […]

DOWNtime!

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Wow! We just got back from a tricky problem with the server… Gentoo (of which I’m still somewhat of a fan) decided to do some, er, interesting changes to config in the last emerge. Thanks to Pete at Bytemark for some great help to get back online.

Now That’s What I Call Traffic!

Monday, July 18th, 2005

The BBC have released some info on their website usage stats on the 7th of July at the time of the terrorist bomb attacks in London. It makes some interesting reading, too! “At peak times during the day there were 40,000 page requests per second from News; Total maximum bandwidth from bbc.co.uk reached: 11.1Gb/s”. That’s […]

Don’t click!

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Here’s an interesting site, in which you shouldn’t click (and they almost laugh at you if you do!)

Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet

Friday, April 29th, 2005

pasta and vinegar reports (via RIM - Ami Ben-Bassat’s Blog) how Dr. Yossi Vardi, with Ami Ben-Bassat, a science writer, and Guy Vardi, “the CPO (chief pigeon/technical officer)” ran a test of Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet to “try and improve Wi-Fly - pigeon-empowered wireless internet and to confront this technology against ADSL”. Looks like it worked. Nice […]

Why, Madrid?

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

“Oh dear.” That’s how the BBC News website put it, when trying to be polite about Madrid’s Olympic website. I feel kind of bad for them, even though I’ve not exactly been forgiving myself, when commenting on the state of Web Española. Unfortunately, there’s no arguing with the BBC’s point of view (”Right from the start, the […]

Less is more

Friday, April 8th, 2005

The complete lack of design on this site is growing on me. Maybe I’ll just leave it like this…