This an article I found really interesting when it came out. That was before I blogged everything I see I just found it again (by accident) through a web trail. From here to here to here to here to: From Hot Concept to Hot Site in Eight Days. "AmIHotOrNot.com evolved from an idea into one of the biggest sites on the Web in less than two months. Such rapid growth meant the site had to scale quickly, especially in the first eight days." Really interesting technical details about how they were able to get the site to scale.

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This was floating around yesterday. Via Boing Boing, blosxom. "Blosxom [pronounced "blossom" or "blogsome"] is a lightweight (to say the least -- it's <30 lines of code) Weblog-in-a-jiffy Perl CGI script for (but in no way limited to) Mac OS X. Blosxom simply nabs text documents (written in your text editor of choice) from a particular directory and displays them (in reverse chronological order) as a Weblog. Simplistic -- but a potentiallly useful spot of fun nevertheless."

Assuming this doesn't only work on OSX, now almost no one has an excuse not to blog!

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Hey, I'm on the blogtivity meter! I'm not sure whether to consider that a boon or a bust.

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Ethereal: "Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Ethereal has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session." This thing looks very cool. Check out the screenshots. I'll probably use this now instead of REBOL for getting network info.

Oops, it needs some extra components to capture live data from the network. Here's the Ethereal readme for Win32. It needs the Windows Packet Capture Library.

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Via PHPEverywhere, why to use template-engines in state-of-the-art webapps?.

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CNN, Study: 1950s nuclear fallout worse than thought.

"Any person living in the contiguous United States since 1951 has been exposed to radioactive fallout, and all organs and tissues of the body have received some radiation exposure," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute said in a progress report prepared for Congress. The report was reviewed by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.

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03:23 (utc-5)

 

Via VoidStar, there's a CERT advisory notice about the security hole in PHP mentioned previously.

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This looks darn useful. Via the Daily Python-URL, the Python Twain Module. "The Python TWAIN module provides an interface to scanners, digital cameras and other devices which implement TWAIN, for the Windows platform. It provides the functionality to allow a Python application to connect to the scanner/camera and to retrieve images from that device."

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Wow, it's possible to generate a Visio diagram from an OPML document. Very cool.

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