a crank’s progress

So between using MTOptimizeHTML and mod_gzip, my server is taking a beating.

last pid: 17424; load averages: 3.96, 2.94, 1.84 up 9+08:17:32 21:19:44
93 processes: 5 running, 88 sleeping
CPU states: 99.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.8% interrupt, 0.0% idle
Mem: 168M Active, 17M [...]

ongoing — You Can Get Paid For This
Tim Bray analyzes his recent foray into Google AdSense. His experiences mirror my own (some ads are worth more than others was one thing I learned early on).
He’s doing a little (!!) better on this than I am, but then I don’t get linked from the tech [...]

Welcome to PubSub.com
Found this in my logfiles just now . . .
PubSub Concepts provides real-time, content based publish and subscribe systems at internet scale. This site is a Beta version of our home page, which will provide a PubSub interface for weblogs and other information sources.
[ . . . ]
PubSub.com reads over [...]

Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: Why Google needs Orkut:
“Then, one day down the road, they quietly decide to “better integrate” Orkut with Google and start redirecting all Orkut requests to orkut.google.com.
Bingo!
Suddenly they’re able to set a *.google.com cookie that contains a bit of identifying data (such as your Orkut id) and that would greatly enhance their ability [...]

AndrewBlog: In Safari:
“Mac’s are beginning to grow up. They are coming to be associated with power and ease of use.”
Whippersnappers like this probably think the Mac OS is a poor copy of Win95 . . . . instead of t’other way round.
[Posted with ecto]

SourceForge.net: Project Info - mod_gzip:
“mod_gzip is an Internet Content Acceleration module for the popular Apache Web Server. It compresses the contents delivered to the client. “
The first thing to look at in the weightwatching game is on-the-fly file compression: easily done. My index.html page went from 103,791 bytes to a more svelte 24,931 — a [...]

Marc’s Voice:
“So I apparently broke some rules on Orkut and have been banned. that is - my account is in ‘jail’.”
I took a tour through the wonderland that is Orkut myself last night: I feel too old to be there. All the listings indicate your relationship status (married, single, committed, open) which is something I [...]

Web Page Speed Report - WebSiteOptimization.com: “Analysis and Recommendations
A report on the index page of this weblog . . .
TOTAL_OBJECTS - Warning! The total number of objects on this page is 23 - consider reducing this to a more reasonable number. Combine, refine, and optimize your external objects. Replace graphic rollovers with CSS rollovers [...]

You are 40% geek
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role [...]

From Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools list:

Abstract:
Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation’s strategy for homeland security. This report adopts a scenario-driven approach that provides a rigorous way to identify actions— linked specifically to terrorist attacks —individuals can take to protect their health and safety. The result is an individual’s strategy across four [...]