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A tiny spark of wit for a highly flammable world

Chipping the web: October 14th

October 15th, 2008 7:00:16 am pst by Sterling Camden

Chipping the web

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Chipping the web: September 4th

September 5th, 2008 7:00:38 am pst by Sterling Camden

Chipping the web

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links for 2008-07-01

July 1st, 2008 1:32:49 am pst by Sterling Camden

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Chipping the web – peg out

December 18th, 2007 7:09:59 pm pst by Sterling Camden

Chipping the web120 is the smallest 3-perfect (triperfect) number. The sum of its divisors is 360, which is 3 * 120.

Are you ready to upgrade from Vista to XP?

The best in programming profanity (thanks, Reg).

Or instead of swearing, just say Boo. An extensible language for the .NET Framework based loosely on Python (thanks, Arjan).

The true art of blogging? Jorn Barger (who invented the term “weblog” ten years ago yesterday) says it’s all about amping up the echo chamber (thanks, John Murrell). Naturally, Dave Winer claims prior art.

The many meanings of SEO. I like Mark’s own coinage best.

I unsubbed from TechCrunch months ago, mostly because I can’t respect Arrington personally. There’s more.

Me on TechRepublic: Top 5 programming languages (depends on how you rank them).

Me on Geeks Are Sexy: My Johnny Quest fantasy nears reality, the ultimate LOLcats, the Firefox detention hoax.

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Chipping the web – from the simple, complexity

September 14th, 2007 6:53:10 pm pst by Sterling Camden

Chipping the web109 (decimal) is the smallest natural number that is palindromic in bases five and nine.

Kiltak pointed me to the Website Grader, from John Chow. Even if you’re not SEO-obsessed, this useful little tool can point out some things you may not have known about your site.  Check it out, it’s free!

Assaf provides a list of the do’s and don’t's  dos and don’ts  does and don’ts  things to embrace and avoid when striving for coolness by association.

Thank you, Dave Winer.  It’s about time.  Recently, Doc fixed his feed problems, too, by migrating to WordPress.  I’d like to say that they both finally listened to me, but I doubt they even heard me — and besides, I was probably just cheering on the inevitable.

Scott Adams notices an alignment between the characters of Dilbert and the pieces in the game of chess.  Coincidence, or something more?  If it’s a universal pattern, then what piece are you in your game?  Me, I’m board.  Must be my checkered past.

I’m not planning on cashing in anytime soon, but it could make me an easy $3.2 million.  Or so they say (thanks, TDavid).

Ah, the wonders of the old Reverse-Polish HP calculators!

Paul led me to 101 more reasons why I like being independent.  Of course, there’s always the down-side.

Ilker had me rolling out of my chair, beating the floor, and gasping for air twice with the Uncyclopedia and 13 unfortunate brand translations.

Thanks for the link-love, Doug, Arjan, and Brian!

Widget watch:  Babul Babul uses the tag cloud widget.

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Chipping the web – right

June 5th, 2007 4:48:52 pm pst by Sterling Camden

Chipping the webThe sum of digital power: If you take each digit in the number 89, raise it to the power corresponding to its ordinal position, and sum the results (81 + 92), you get 89.

Apotheonic neologism: coderspace.

Bugger!

Shelley’s new startups.  See, Web 2.0 doesn’t have to be all about happy, smiley neighborhoods after all.

TDavid questions whether Skype should be building a gaming platform rather than keeping their game face on for call quality.

Hiding from Google (in a cave).

Apparently Shel, for one, welcomes our new Google overlords.

Danielle and Michael responded to my tag on the Random 8 meme.  Michael’s #5 is me all the way.  Danielle’s #6 is nearly universal.

maxmnavarro, mad housewife, and Talk Aloha use my tag cloud widget.  Gracias!  Thanks!  Mahalo!

Carol links to Randy’s Ten Steps to Professional Blogging, and gives me some link-love as editor (though my contribution was minimal).

FWIW, this blog is now #37 on the Z-list on Squidoo, with a total of 1 point.  So, what’s the point?

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links for 2006-08-30

August 29th, 2006 7:21:36 pm pst by Sterling Camden

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links for 2006-08-17

August 16th, 2006 7:18:57 pm pst by Sterling Camden

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links for 2006-07-22

July 21st, 2006 7:19:43 pm pst by Sterling Camden

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Prime results

July 20th, 2006 10:25:05 am pst by Sterling Camden

One of the ways I track referrers is via an RSS feed from ReefeRSS. I like it, because you can quickly scroll through all of the inbounds and see where they are coming from. You can also click on the link to the referrer to see where your link is on their page, which is particularly interesting for search engine results.

Search engine referrals also give you an idea of what people are searching for when they reach your site. It’s gratifying to see a search query that lands on your site where you know the user found the answer they were looking for (like ‘Google: wordpress tag cloud widget’). Sometimes I see queries that I know led to a disappointing visit, and these often inspire me to write a post to answer them, ex post facto (sorry).

Quite a few search engine queries landing on this post include some form of the question ‘what does bear poop look like?’ — a question that my post asks but does not answer. From browsing Google’s results, I didn’t think there was a picture of ursine feces anywhere on the Internet.

Then, today, Seth introduced me to Huckabuck, where you can adjust the mix of results from different search engines. Playing with the search tuner, I finally found (via del.icio.us) a picture that answers that unique question. It could not, however, answer the question of why it looks that way — bear poop apparently has no factors.

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