Category: Geek

Google analytics

Im currently trying Google Analytics at the moment to track visits to the blog. Just to see what it looks like. So far its pretty cool, but if you are using linux (or probably anything) make sure you update your flash plugin for the browser. It goes very badly with versions older than 7.0.

In other geeky news im speaking at the Linux Conf Australia next year, which
despite the name is being held in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Lucky I have a few 13 hour flights before then that I can use for speech
writing.

Some fun ideas

Ive been playing with a couple of neat little things. One of them is indy.tv From the site:
“Indy is a music discovery program that learns what you like, and plays more of it. And it’s free.

Indy makes it easy for you to find great new independent music. Just download Indy and double-click: as it plays songs, you rate what you hear. Indy quickly learns what you like and gets really smart about sending you more music you’ll like. Let Indy help you find your place in the collective consciousness as you help other people find theirs.”

The other is Connectviabooks which is like an online book club.

What are TelstraClear playing at this time?

Ok paradise.net.nz used to be a fantastic ISP. Then telstraclear bought it,
and its steadily sucked more, almost monthly. The latest piece of madness is
their transparent proxy is stopping me from accessing a bunch of websites.
Most annoyingly lists.sourceforge.net is one of those. Its a ‘known fault’
which just means that it’ll get fixed only when enough people complain.
I really resent the degradation of the service, since ive had my cablemodem
account in this house, they have depeered from all the peering exchanges,
implemented (badly) transparent proxying and had intermittent connectivity
outages. But I still pay exactly the same every month .. for what is now a
vastly inferior product. Dickheads!