Glossy Screens on Laptops Suck
I understand why glossy screens have completely overtaken matte screens; glossies look a lot sexier on display at the store. Images and videos are shown in vivid, eye-catching color and contrast that...
View ArticleCensorship on Facebook – Others can’t see your posts
Facebook seems to be employing a troubling, sneaky sort of censorship algorithm that is applied when people post to the pages of organizations, politicians, etc. It appears to be a form of the “Tachy...
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Using word clouds for SEO keyword analysis
Wordle is an online tool that creates “word clouds” out of text. Basically, you feed it some text and it generates an image of jumbled up words, with the size of each word determined by how frequently...
View ArticleGroupon says what?
I can’t be the only one who finds “Groupon Says” completely pointless. The sayings certainly aren’t “hyper-factual”, and neither are they humorous. It just seems bizarre that a big-name company like...
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Best stats plugin for WordPress: ShortStat
This is just my opinion, based on what I was looking for, which is: a very simple WordPress blog plugin for gathering and reporting stats like unique and total hits, referrers, and search keywords. I...
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Spam in WordPress Comments
This blog is only a few weeks old, and I’ve managed to attract 12 comment spam attempts. 86% of the comments so far have been spam. When I was initially configuring WordPress I selected moderated...
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Why are JSPs so slow? (Tomcat 7 vs. Apache)
It would be unreasonable to expect JSPs to be served at the same rate as static files. Even after being compiled, requests to JSPs must pass through layers of servlet container code, not to mention the...
View ArticleSelecting Rows With Chinese Characters in MySQL
…or Russian/Cyrillic characters, or Arabic, or any characters of non-latin origin. On this blog, I’ve let tons of spam comments pile up in the pending queue. Their number grew to the point of being...
View ArticleNew Project Launched: Spectacular.Gift
It began like this: Amazon.com’s vast product catalog contains many clever and unique items, the sort that you may not know you wanted until you’ve heard of it. Alternately, these items might make an...
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