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My Restaurant Thing is a busy site – it has thousands of users and can see 10k hits on a busy day.
I’m looking to migrate it from my own ASP.NET architecture to being a DotNetNuke site.
This really shouldn’t be too difficult – I implemented the ‘back end’ stuff as a web service, so I [...]

I’m addicted to clicking the ‘Next’ button on the Long Tail page, and in doing so I’ve noticed an annoying phenomenon. Ping spam.
Ping spam is people who ping the various pinging services with links to bogus blog entries. Entries like:
online poker
via online poker: Please check the sites about online poker texas holdem online [...]

And some speed, to boot.

I picked up a Dell SC420 Server on eBay, and Canada Post left it outside my house today. A big box with DELL written on it in letters big enough to see from the street was sitting on my doorstep when I got home… I’m surprised I got it at [...]

I installed Virtual Server this evening to see how well it works.

Compared to Virtual PC, there’s one killer feature that makes it interesting to me: It runs as a service. This is very cool because unlike VirtualPC where someone had to be logged in, if the power goes out and comes back and [...]

Here’s a problem I’ve run into a few times, and a couple of solutions. Not rocket science, but these are things that took me a while to figure out, so maybe you’ll find them useful.

Here’s the scenario: You’ve got a Windows application that’s doing something wrong in rendering a control, or in processing [...]

A fellow wired up his Playstation 2 controller to his Parallel port, and with some custom software pressed every combination of buttons until he had figured out all the cheat codes for GTA: San Andreas.

Site belonging to the guy who rigged it up is here.

Cool.

So Firefox 1.0 is out and it’s gaining on Internet Explorer. Cool.
I believe Internet Explorer won the browser market fairly. If Firefox displaces Internet Explorer to any significant degree, then I believe this can be taken as proof that Internet Explorer won the browser market fairly. IE beat Netscape because Netscape was [...]

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Why does anyone still try to use this thing? It’s been slow and broken since it was launched, and apparently fixing it isn’t a priority. I wanted to look at a project [...]

A particular news article I just read is worth talking about (I’m not going to say what it was because that’s not the point), and the blogosphere is talking about it. Is it better than Google News? Probably not, but it’s an interesting alternate – rather than what newspapers are talking about, it’s [...]

Or rather, What’s On the Mind of the Blogosphere. I added some parsing for nouns to the Long Tail site, and hooked up a front end that renders the nouns that are appearing frequently, to try to give a ’snapshot’ of what bloggers are talking about.