Several people have asked me about this strange-looking message and wondering if it’s spam. It’s not — this is just us giving some advance warning about a brief scheduled downtime tomorrow night for maintenance. We’re trying to be proactive in communicating this downtime, but hopefully we don’t make too big a deal about it.
Scanning my logs to see what search terms are bringing people here, I noticed a slightly disturbing search for “d-i-r-t-y christmas pictures”. Sure enough, an old entry about Christmas pictures had me explaining how I’d posted the pictures quickly. I subsequently took the pictures down, so web searchers are probably quite disappointed. I’ve edited the page, so hopefully Google will pick up on this and stops sending me traffic from that particular search.
The offseason for NASCAR has been pretty busy, as usual. When your season runs from February through November, there isn’t a lot of down time, especially since the first race of the year — the Daytona 500 — is also the most important. Some items of note: Satellite radio coverage is moving from XM to Sirius who is already running full page color ads in USA Today Tony Stewart joins Howard Stern and others with his own radio show on Sirius For TV coverage, NBC and FX are out while Fox, Speed Channel, ABC, ESPN and TNT will split the…
Having run Firefox 2.0 since its launch, I’ve been digging all the new features: Visual refresh: nice Phishing support: sounds good, haven’t had any alarms yet Search box improvements: pretty nice Session restore: very handy, especially if Firefox itself crashes Web feeds: haven’t tried it yet Inline spell checking: very nice, no need for Spellbound anymore Improved add-ons manager: kind of liked the old one better, but it’s functional But, my most favorite new feature is…Improved tabbed browsing. The close box on each tab took some getting used to. See the difference in these screenshots: Firefox 1.5 Tab UI: Firefox…
Niall Kennedy has published a great summary of feed publishing best practices. He covers a good deal of ground from the feed publishing side, especially useful for those just getting started.