Let your webservers accesslog be the source of a game of pong :-)

If you are a brew OSX user, a oneliner to install :-)

see logstalgia

There must have been a glitch in the matrix. Yesterday I did a tweet that got autosend to Facebook. Somehow with a couple of hours, I got 12.000 likes and 130.000 comments on it. The picture up was one I took when the likes-storm just begun. The post it self is now WSOD for me but maybe it will work in die time, http://www.facebook.com/bertboerland/posts/2231777543
. Weird to see.

But then, think about a CMS that can handle 130k comments on on single post. And then that there are zillions of post per second. Wordpress anyone? ;-)

I finnaly moved this website from my 15 year old pentium 166 with a load over 20 to some better iron, some decent 3 year old hardware. The new machine had a newer PHP version and my /ancient/ Drupal install was fine with that. However, I was unable to log in. Took me some time to see if this was caching or Cookie related but found it, adding
register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');
to the sessions.inc did the trick

So this website should be more stable now, and faster. I will get a new ADSL line in a couple of week upgrading to 20Mb so should be even faster in some time. With some downtime however, I will get a new IP address as well and need to change my zones when I know what this address will be.

Thank you bas for giving me "havenmeester" (aka tug) 5 years ago. Even at that time dated hardware but served me well. It is just that the fan of the CPU makes an enormous amount of noise now.

shutdown -h now.

We salute you Tug, the oldest webserver on the net :-)

The other day -based upon some twitter messages I was doing with some friends- I thought about how many RSS readers I have for my frontpage. I didnt feel like investigating /all/ possible RSS readers since every taxonomy item in Drupal (the CMS under this site) is a RSS feed and since since only very few people are subscribed to these feeds; most follow the frontpage.

The problems with RSS readers is that big aggegator sites get the RSS feed on behalf of multiple people, just counting readers does not do the job. Fortunately, bigger sites mention how many people are reading the feed, like this in the headers:

The other problem is that I have three RSS feed URL's for one and the same feed:

So I run the following code on an access log of half a day:

(note: Most RSS readers grab the feed muliple times per day. I dont count them via the onliners above and having only half a day of sampling data is not that bad)

Then count the "on behalf of xxx subscribers" by hand and...

I couldn't believe it, in half a day I have some 554 subscribers! Wowsers!

Frankmeeuwsen zei dat hij een stukje van de NRC over "downloadgeneratie" in een keer kon vinden in google als eerste hit op twitter:

rechtsmenuklikt op "downloadgeneratie">search google>eerste hit>pats raak. Ongelooflijk...

ging ik de uitdaging aan.

aan de hand van iemand die gisteren googlede naar downloadgeneratie

en poste zelf een stuk over de downloadgeneratie op mijn site.

Zou ik het winnen? Zou ik met mijn blog entry boven die van de NRC komen? Drupal -het CMS onder deze site- is super SEO dus na een dag stond ik al op de 4de plaats. En vandaag even kijken en wat blijkt? Op google.COM sta ik nu op nummer 1. Eet je hart uit NRC en het CMS dat er onder ligt. :-)

En de title? Downloadgeneratie 2.0? Wel dat is een mooie naam die de huidige download generatie aan de volgende generatie kan geven. Een download generatie die niet enkel download maar ook weet wat de juridische gevolgen zijn, gebruik maakt van torrents maar wel CC licenties in acht neemt. Maar dat is voor later.