Saturday, August 24, 2002

Went to dinner this week with friends and old co-workers.  Topics of discussion included "The Meaning of Life" and "Best Practices."   2:15:44 PM  comment []     Get That Gum into your...  "The chomping action of our jaws makes our mouth water, and fools our glands into expecting the next meal – food and drink. Step 1: our brain releases a SURGE of insulin. Step 2: our heartbeat is increased, and Step 3: a flood of oxygen and glucose is released to our brain. Coda: Chewing puts your pedal-to-the-metal for better learning and memory. " 11:28:24 AM  comment []     John Robb's Radio Weblog  "Just to point out the disparity of costs between decentralized publishing and centralized publishing.  Say you have 100,000 people that you want to enable to publish a weblog.  Given that these are weblogs and not simple homepages (like GeoCities) that are published once and forgotten, a couple of things change.  People use the functionality daily, if not several times a day.  They also build massive sites.  Compared to a one or two page "designed" personal home page on the last generations site builders, the user of a weblog system will quickly find themselves publishing sites with hundreds if not thousands of pages.   They get big fast. If done centrally, you could probably put a thousand or two weblogs on a single server.  That would take 50-100 servers, extensive rack space, and a huge budget for admin of those servers given that there is complex functionality on the server.  In a decentralized model, you could put 10-20 k weblogs on a single static server.   That would require only 5-10 servers (a single rack) and a very low admin budget.  Nice. " 9:44:47 AM  comment []     Is This One Nation, Under Blog?. Weblog software use grows daily -- but bloggers abandon sites and launch new ones as frequently as J.Lo goes through boyfriends. Which makes taking an accurate blog count tricky. By Lia Steakley. [Wired News] 9:30:45 AM  comment []     The R in RSS1.0 "Whenever RDF begins to seem complicated it can be helpful to remember that simple definition, all RDF ever does is to say stuff about things." [Scripting News] 9:19:12 AM  comment []     Wireless, Defenseless: "If you're running a wireless network, there are some things you can do immediately that will make it harder for strangers to hitchhike on your network. You can activate Wireless Equivalent Privacy, change your network's service set identifier, and configure your access points to reject connections from unknown wireless cards." [80211b News] "If you still thought that your wireless networking was safe without a VPN or other encryption, think again. This excellent column by Lincoln Stein in New Architect shows just how easy it is to kipe content." 8:21:57 AM  comment []

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