Alan Blaine Whitney

Has twitter, or micro-blogging, killed the normal format of blogging. It seems that people are blogging less and micro-blogging more. Just from thinking about the people that I follow. I don’t know if this is a good thing.

Full blogs are good because they force you to think out were thoughts better, explain yourself more, and better express opinion. Full blogging, both reading and writing requires more attention, but I think you learn more.

Twitter, or micro blogging, requires little thought, littler effort. But it’s a great way to publish one liner thoughts.

Twitter has it’s place, I hope people don’t became too lazy and abandon blogging though.  One thing I would like to see, is for feedburner to provide daily digest of twitter into their feed.  Just exactly how they do delicious now.

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So twitter was down, nothing too new there, but amazon, what happen to amazon today.

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In most of the 37 signals apps, like campfire, and most of the google apps, like gmail, reader, etc, scrolling is almost inside the div.  I like this for web app, I think it’s silly for content sites, but makes lots of sense for apps.  It’s nice to never have to scroll to reach your controls, always have the controls reachable.  That really helps make it more app like.

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So we all know of debian’s SSL woes.

Here is the command that I used on boxes to fix it.

rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
apt-get install openssl openssh-server
dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server

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There are a few things that I want to do in the next few months.  I want to make a site/app based mostly on an api.  In general I just want to use an api extensively, like twistori, which is based on twitter, mostly.  Google gadget, igoogle, would like to make one of those.  Speaking of google, would not mind trying out google friend connect too.  JQuery is something I would like to try, to see how it compares to Prototype/Scriptaculous.

Thats about it for now.

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I was just looking through some Google Analytics things and thought I would share some stats that I see on the sites that I monitor.

Browsers

1. IE 7 (62%)
2. Firefox (18%, mostly 2)
3. IE 6 (15%)
4. Safari (4%)
5. Mozilla (1%)

I was surprized of how few IE6’s are still around

Screen Resolutions

92 to 98% (depending on site) of screen sizes are 1024×768 or bigger with the most common being 1024×768, 1280×768, and  1280×800

Connection

Around 5% to 10% are not connecting at high speed (DSL, Cable, T1, etc).  Cable is more popular than DSL.  Not surprisingly,  people spend the same amount of time on a site, but people with higher speeds see more pages per visit.

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All through the New Testament in the Bible, it speaks of the categories of men. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, man or woman; the Bible most speaks of there no categories of men, save one, sinners, and we are all in that one. As such, I have no problems with people of any backup or nationality. I really don't, all man are equal in my eyes, but if I call a phone number that is listed for American support, I will not press 1 for english, as Teddy Roosevelt said<br />
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<blockquote>We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.</blockquote>

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At work, the last few days, we have had a problem with our connectivity. It was a very complicated routing problem that only manifested it's self sometime. After some time continuely explaining the issue to our ISP, they saw what was happening and in turn, passed the issue on to their provider to fix.<br />
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It got me thinking, there should be a system in place for customer support. Maybe a simple quiz before you get a rep. Like "TCP is", press one for computer type, press two for video disk format, press three for core internet protocol, press four for IP address. And maybe do three or four questions. If you have a not technical person, give them basic support for restart your modem, restart your computer. If you have a technical person, then you can save them and yourselves hours of time, be just listening and believing that they may have a clue.<br />
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Just an idea. You would have to have an opt out.

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So the Giants won, and the Pats didn't finish undefeated. But here is what I think is the real story of the game is Justin Tuck and Michael Strahan, defensive linemen for NY. Those two guys kept pressure on Brady all night long. He was sacked, knocked down and pressured all game. Sure, the MVP went to manning, but I think the pressure on Brady and the shutting down of the running game really stalled the pats offense. <br />
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So what does that mean, well, often times the less visible stuff in life is the most important. There are things in life that you are not going to get credit for when you are doing a great job at it. I say rejoice in that. Jesus said, do not your good works before men.<br />
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I guess it's just a reminder to do good when nobody is looking and you will not get any credit for it.<br />
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