Just for fun, I decided to try Yahoo’s search advertising for a little while. It’s been running for a few weeks now.
Here’s my take on a series of aspects of their service.
First, the initial reason I thought I’d try it: the keyword bid rates are lower. I figured they were lower for a reason, but thought it couldn’t be that bad. Boy was I wrong.
0 commentsJust a quick note to introduce a few services I’ve had a hand in developing.
Zerigo Pods are high-performance, easy to use virtual private servers (VPS’s). Zerigo Watchdog is a simple (and free!) server monitoring service. Zerigo NS is a straightforward DNS service (also free!) with a REST API.
0 commentsI have a Xen 3.2.1 server and the guests (domU’s), after a few months of uptime, are all behind about 45 seconds. Interestingly, the dom0’s clock is fine.
It seems that the hypervisor’s clock is what’s off as all the guests are off by the same amount. A reboot would likely fix it, but what fun is that?
3 commentsRails 2.3 made a lot of changes in how requests are handled. Most (all?) of this has to do with its new support for Rack. Anyway, all of these changes left Rails 2.3 incompatible with the last version of the Limited Sessions plugin.
So, here’s a shiny new version of Limited Sessions to go with your shiny new version of Rails.
0 commentsI’ve noticed an interesting trend lately: I’m having more trouble catching the various prompts and other such on my computer. I think it has to do with bigger screens.
It looks like this: when a friend sends me an IM or someone sends me an email, I don’t always notice. Sometimes it takes hours. I’m losing my ability to pay attention. I hate ignoring people, even unintentionally, so this is somewhat bothersome.
When I’m just in front of my little laptop screen, I don’t have as much trouble. But when I have things spread out across two screens and tons of windows, I miss things more often. It’s even more so when I don’t have the sound turned up.
This makes me wonder though, when things get busy or life just gets spread out, what else do we miss? How many of those things are even more important than a message from a customer or friend? How many of those things are messages from family, friends, customers, and so on? What should we be doing differently to pay more attention in places where it’s important?
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