Archive: 2006-02
Chasing moving targets
Webalizer hates Googlebot Mobile
For reasons that are pretty much historical, I use Webalizer for analysing my web site access logs. (I’m in the market for something better: any suggestions would be welcome.) Since earlier this month, however, my statistics have been broken: Webalizer died with a SEGFAULT every time it tried to parse the access log. The culprit wasn’t too difficult to find, but it was an interesting exercise that probably benefits from being passed on.
Gotmail: Hotmail how you want it
I haven’t used Hotmail for email since about 1999, but, inexplicably, people still send emails to my hotmail.com address. I occasionally check the account, usually to find that they have expired it due to inactivity. It’s hard to remember to check it, just to wade through the poker and dating spam that Hotmail’s weak spam filter lets through. Besides, the interface is dreadful and confusing. I’d like to get the useful emails in a timely fashion, but I’d rather not have to go near Hotmail to do it.
Big in China?
One of my friends found my name mentioned in an article in Forbes China about in-train internet access. Unfortunately, my Chinese reading ability is very limited, but I’m told that it’s a well-written article.
Review: The Bug digital radio
Blue-eyed foreigners
I can’t help but be amused by the odd outbursts of some Japanese politicians regarding the possiblity of allowing women to accede to the throne (which seems increasingly necessary in the continuing absence of any male heirs).
The elephant grass in the living room
In US President Bush’s State of the Union Address this week, he identified the US’s dependency on oil—especially the kind imported from badly-governed parts of the world—as a problem.
Watch where you’re driving! Are you blind or something?
I love Barry of Portsmouth’s review of a TomTom navigation device.
Scroll down a bit toGo directly to Barry’s review, in which he says:
