Category Archives: Lazyweb

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 [...]
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Tagging: How useful is it?

Just posted another update to my blog, checked it, and realized (once again) I had forgotten to tag my post. It seems redundant, since WordPress allows tagging and categories. It seems to me a few years ago "tagging" things was all the rage -- we'd be able to organize and sort everything with tags. Now it [...]
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Lazyweb: Vim to gist.github.com?

Dear Lazyweb: I'd like to sync drafts from Vim to gist.github.com. I suspect that this is a problem someone else has solved. Anyone know a good site with scripts or tips on how to do this? Basically I want my workflow to be something like this: Create document in Vim, sync to gist.github.com (preferably private unless [...]
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Lazyweb: Backing up chat / IRC logs

The problem: I use at least three different computers on a regular basis (my desktop machine, a ThinkPad, and a massive Dell notebook). I do a lot of my work in chat and IRC, and I log everything -- I want the logs backed up and searchable in one convenient location. Any good ways to do [...]
Also posted in openSUSE | 1 Comment

Tiny URL and search engines?

How does using a TinyURL affect ranking of content on search engines, anybody know? What I mean -- if I link to a story on my blog via Twitter, Identi.ca, et al, how does that affect the rank of the content for Google and others? Since it's not the original URL, does a search engine "know" [...]
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Going to Japan

Sunday morning, I'll be heading to the airport bright and early (actually, before daylight) to head to Tokyo, Japan for a little over a week to meet with the growing openSUSE community in Japan. This is going to be a very busy and exciting trip. I've never been to Japan before, but I hear wonderful things, [...]
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Alternative to "Roll Call"?

Been watching The West Wing again, and the repeated references to Roll Call caught my interest. I was thinking about subscribing to Roll Call until I noticed that the print subscription is $455 and the online-only subscription is $285 for a year. If I had time to read it cover-to-cover every day, I might consider [...]
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