Daily Archives: 11/24/2009
Mozilla Picks Up the Drumbeat
Yeah, the Mozilla folks just keep going. Like the Energizer Bunny of the Web, they're always up to something new. This time it's Drumbeat, a sort of umbrella project for various projects to create "tools that enable Internet users to understand, participate and take control of their own lives." The project has been bootstrapping itself [...]
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Tracking traffic?
I've been playing with some of the different programs to track stats on my blog lately to try to get a real idea how many visitors per day I get, which posts are most popular, etc. It becomes obvious very quickly that counting page views and traffic is not trivial:
Using awstats, WordPress.com Stats, and Google [...]
Posted in Blogging 101, Browsers, Lazyweb, Writing 2 Comments
Getting its and it's right
If I had a penny for every time someone confuses its and it's, just on the Internet, I would be ridiculously rich. This is probably, in part, because the rule is a bit counterintuitive. The reflex for most writers is to affix an 's to something to make it possessive.
You'd normally say something like [...]
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Some choice bits from around the Web about technology, politics, and community development.
Using Python to create UNIX command line tools — "If you work in IT, as a UNIX Sysadmin, a software developer, or even a manager, there a few skills that will set you apart from the crowd. Do you fully understand the OSI [...]
Posted in Browsers, Legal, Linkage, Linux, Movies, Open Source, Politics, openSUSE Tagged command line tools, developerworks, drumbeat, dvd, eff, health care, insurance, mozilla, python, unix Leave a comment
Chrome OS is Here: Some Assembly Required