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Malaysian Sensation
Yesterday was some day. Our overnite bus down the east coast of Malaysia broke down at 5:00 AM, stranding us in the middle of nowhere. A ludicrously expensive taxi (by Malay standards: 100 ringgit = 33 USD = 2 hour cab ride) got us to the airport a comforting 10 hours early. Due to the… »
Follow me through Asia on Twitter
I’m finding Twitter to be alarmingly useful for quick posts from the road or my phone, so you’ll see my Twitter volume increase, and (as you may have noticed!) my TechFold blog be updated intermittently (apologies).
Anyway, you can follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/dreadsword
or read our travel blog: http://venturefar.wordpress.com
and follow our pics:… »
Wheelscore: Automotive Meme Tracker is live
Wheelscore is a second deployment of the TechWatching algorithm, now live and alive at http://wheelscore.com. If you’re into cars, you’ll like it. Feedback appreciated!
As noted on Twitter, there’s three more memetrackers in the works for launches in the next few weeks as well - stay tuned!
Btw - I’m out of Bangladesh, currently in the Cameron… »
Today’s the day…
That we take off for Singapore and the start of our grand adventure. So I’ll likely be out of touch for a bit… don’t take it personally.
Catch you from the other… »
A quick followup on “no more metrics…”
One other reason to remove metrics-indicators (feedburner count, technorati authority, etc.) from your blog is that user’s tend to form an impression of credibility based on readership volume as much as the actual quality of what they’re reading. i.e.: if you stumble across a blog that’s new to you, on some level you’ll read its… »
How-to Dismantle Your Life, Lesson One: Credit Cards
My wife and I are taking a very extended trip to south-east Asia to travel and volunteer for a year (or more…) - long enough that I consider the move “indefinite.” That means you’ve got “shut down” activities to contend with - i.e.: arranging a sibling to come over and water your plants is not… »
The value of database indexing
Sheesh. I just sped up the TechWatching.com script that writes the main page by an order of magnitude just by looking at my queries and re-jiggering related table indexes. I am a total amateur and have the greatest of respect for those who’ve made databasing and computer science their career.
Now onto sorting out character encoding… »
I’m Headed to South East Asia for a year…
The headline says it all. My wife and I have rented out our home, given away our car, taken leaves or quit our jobs, and are in the process of packing and storing everything we own. I’ve been waiting to announce it until both of our workplaces and friendship circles are in the loop -… »
SimplePie RSS Parsing
I just switched TechWatching from MagpieRSS to SimplePie. Each of these is an automated RSS feed parser built for PHP, and both feature great features like caching, http-last-modified intelligent requests to lessen the overhead of feed-checking, etc. MagpieRSS, for whatever reason, has died on the vine - i.e.: last blog post is October of 2006…. »
TechWatching Update… new & improved
Some exciting news tonite! Well, exciting for me anyway. My TechMeme alternative and Tailrank-competitor TechWatching now offers vastly improved “conceptual clustering.”
Previously, the homepage organized “hot topics” into keyword clusters, based on the relative prevalence of a given keyword within a pool of content from a certain time period. So, for example, “Google” would be associated… »