I’m selling my Specialized Hardrock mountain bike on eBay. With my new job I don’t get to ride it at all. In fact I’ve done less than 20 miles on it. 🙁
It’s a fantastic bike. It’s a Hardrock Sport with disc brakes and front suspension. If you’re interested in bidding go see the eBay listing.
Update: The bike is now sold.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Damn Lies!
Wow, my page counter, which has been going about 4 months less than this blog has just passed two million!
That count includes bots and refreshes, whereas the real counter is a count of real visitors.
The stats counter, which has been going a year less, stands at almost 170,000. I seem to be running at about 370 to 450 real live visitors a day. Most of them (76%) are still running Internet Explorer, but that’s a long way down from previous months, with Mozilla/Firefox and Netscape taking up another 22% of the total. Interestingly the various flavours of Windows account for just over 90% of my visitors, with Mac OS X (3.8%) and Linux (2.6%) making up the only other sizeable chunks.
In all of these I don’t count myself, of course: all of the machines/browsers I use have cookies to exclude my own visits from the stats.
Google is the top search engine with over 71% of search hits, followed at a distance by Yahoo! (16.1%) and MSN (8.4%). AOL (2.4%) heads the rest of the pack (22 different search engines identified).
“chester bennington”, “mike” and “s club 8” are the most popular search terms bringing people to here.
*Yawn* even I’m bored now, so I’ll stop…
New Home
Well, we’re all aboard and settled in to the new server now. It is much, much faster than the last place. I’m not constrained space wise either.
I still have some tweaks to do, e.g. I haven’t set up any cron jobs yet. But everything is hunky-dory so far.
I think it’s about time I redecorated, so to speak!
Moving
I have set in motion the move of zed1.com to another server. DNS takes a while to propagate, so you may find this site disappears for a while…
It should all be sorted in the next few hours and then hopefully things will be a little faster again.
Update If you have trouble connecting to the site, you could try http://zed1.co.uk which will remain pointing at the old server until I’m sure everything has transferred.
Further Update: If you are reading this update, then you made it to the new server!
Email Problems
It looks like some of my email was down for a few hours this afternoon. If you sent anything to a zed1.com email address anytime in the last 9 or 10 hours it most probably went missing. Please send it again if it was important. If it was spam don’t bother 🙂
I think I will be moving my hosting in the next couple of weeks. This loss of email (and it appears nothing bounced, everything was lost) is the final straw. I’ve been very happy with my hosting for several years now, but recently things have gone down hill rapidly. The shared server is over shared, out of disk space, and the processes regularly grind to a halt. Customer service response time has to be measured in days at the moment.
WordPress: Web Application of the Year
Ars Technica forumgoers have voted for WordPress as the Web Application of the year!
WordPress is the most prominent rising star of weblog software, completely free and with a large and active community. Styles, plugins and hacks are readily available, with problems such as comment spamming being addressed far more rapidly than competing applications.
Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
Founding member Larry Sanger has written a well considered article: Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism over at Kuro5hin. In it he explains why, as Wikipedia hits the big time, it has to address its perceived lack of credibility, and the dominance of difficult people and trolls. A couple of prominent articles last year brought the former problem into sharp relief.
He points to anti-elitism, or lack of respect for expertise
as the root cause of the problems. I have to agree with his reasoning, and also his prediction that unless it is addressed that there will be a ‘fork’ of the project with the express purpose of producing a vetted version of the work with a tangible level of credibility.
Hat tip to Matt
