I mentioned that people ought to take an hour out of there day, and watch the last lecture by the late Dr. Randy Pausch. I know not everyone has the time. Someone has put together as a music video, some highlights of the talk. So if you don't have 60 minutes, you might want to take 5 minutes and watch this short music video by Eric Hutchinson's with his song "Back To Where I Was". … [Read more...]
posted on August 2, 2008 by
Monks Get Broadband
Image via Wikipedia "Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the brothers was being tested by our slow Internet." FATHER DANIEL VAN SANTVOORT, Cistercian monk, on his Welsh island community's decision to get broadband. Source I've written several times about the need to have an efficient website, which can run fast enough for everyone to use. However, I guess some people didn't get the message, and have caused the Monks to run out of … [Read more...]
posted on July 31, 2008 by
Search Engines and Flash Files
In the past, the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, et all) couldn't really search Flash files that well. Well Adobe has been working with the search engines to allow them to search the Flash sites, widgets, buttons, and more. This is good news on the surface, but still requires one digging a little deeper before trying to get a nifty Flash site. Here are three quick take aways to know about, before The first thing to know, is you still have to use text, as text, to be … [Read more...]
posted on July 29, 2008 by
Additional needs for Efficiency
Web Worker Daily recently brought up how some local Internet providers are looking to meter users bandwidth. What this basically means is that you are (usually) given a base amount of data you can transfer per month, then for each additional unit, usually gigabytes, they charge you an additional fee. If you have a website, you are probably aware of this yourself. You can have so much traffic, and additional traffic creates an additional charge. We've discussed in the past how you will want … [Read more...]