I recently rediscovered Beardyman. He’s a very talented beatbox champion, with a comedic twist that makes him a great performer.
Be sure to check out his stand-up bit that starts around 12:20 in the following vid, made me crack up…
I’m putting some domain names up for sale, including twitapps.com/net/org, and several others that are ideal for Twitter-related services, or whatever.
For more info please see the blog post over on 3ft9.com.
I saw the following post on Facebook the other day and it really demonstrates how important it is to stick to standards on the web, and that nice URLs are far more user friendly.
Which of those links would you click on? If you chose the first you wouldn’t have hit the page The Boileroom were hoping you’d see because the URL uses the | character which Facebook apparently doesn’t think can be part of a URL.
Note how the second link is no more SEO friendly than the first, but it’s definitely more user friendly. I think it’s vital that website designers place as much importance on the URLs used on their sites as they do on aesthetic and SEO considerations. A clean, simple URL looks sharable; it won’t put people off sending the link to their friends and it won’t get broken by websites that don’t cope with every valid character.
Think about how your URLs look, how they will be used, and make sure you design them so that when they get shared they look inviting and actually work, even with poorly written HTMLifier.
I also think that whoever posted this on Facebook needs shooting. Why didn’t they immediately delete this post when they saw that the first link won’t work and repost it using a URL shortener? Social media fail!
The other day I was continuing my long-term quest to sort through all the flotsam and jetsam of accumulated crap on my hard drive when I came across the following video (click through if you don’t see the video below). Recorded in April 2009, it shows the first version of the TweetMeme Live functionality without any rate or minimum retweet restrictions. As you can see it moved pretty quickly.
I’ve put a post up on my personal blog detailing my goals for 2010 and this post will expand on some of the ideas I’ve had for the work goal.
The core of the goal is to create more freedom. Freedom to do what I want to do. Freedom to work when and how I want to. Freedom to experiment with new ways of earning a living.
I’m looking to develop my portrait photography skills so I’m throwing this out there to see if anyone’s interested in a free photo session. I take a lot of photos but aside from weddings I generally haven’t had a lot of experience taking pictures of people. I want to change that.
I know it’s been a while since posted anything on this blog, but I’ve had a lot going on and it hasn’t really been at the forefront of my mind. So, what’s been going on?
One of the pillars of a scalable website is ensuring that only activity which is required to build a page should be performed during the processing of a page request. Activities that fall under this category commonly include sending emails, recording statistics and general housekeeping such as removing temporary files.
Back when I started working on sites big enough for these activities to cause a problem I went down the obvious route of making a PHP CLI script for each job that needed doing and getting it to run using cron. This worked for a while but as the sites I was working on got bigger and more complex it quickly became clear that this was becoming difficult to manage, so I started to consider alternatives.
A new phishing attack against Facebook has surfaced recently using the domain fbaction.net. Whenever I see these things I always reset my browser and try signing in with fake details to see what happens. In this case I got a nice surprise. When I got redirected to Facebook I got this…
who cast the final stone?
who threw the crushing blow?
someone has to take the fall
why not me?
a punch toy volunteer
a weakling on its knee.
is all you want to hear
and all you want to see.
romantically, you’d martyr me
and miss this story’s point
it is my strength, my destiny
this is the role that I have chosen.
Clarification: I received about 12 copies of this to various email addresses. While annoying I thought it was pretty well done and worth preserving. I have no idea who (or what) wrote it.
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