The good folks at the EFF are running project Panopticlick — with the tagline “How unique — and trackable — is your browser”. Turns out browsers will reveal lots of information about your system, even with cookies turned off. E.g. your set of plugins (got shockwave?), your screen depth, your screen size, your system [...]
I followed the random twitterfall this morning to the Edge question of the year: How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think.
An answer came right to mind, and I thought I’d make this my first post of the year. The internet rewards clarity of purpose in a meaningful way, and thus has [...]
I’m in the process of working with a friend on a new online store, and it’s been very interesting to be “practicing what I preach” with site design, user experience, SEO, open source tools, blogs, video, and social media strategy. And it’s been a huge amount of work — more than I expected. Soon [...]
As you all recall, we moved Ampersand to google apps about a year ago. One thing we’ve been enjoying is how google silently puts new goodies in the google labs area. Every couple months or so I click into settings on each of my apps and go checkout what’s new.
Today, [...]
We interrupt this regularly scheduled series of blog posts about travel tech with some breaking news. Noting that internet felt very crisp, I ran a speedtest the other day with the following results:
Now, I was reading about LTE coming with it’s rumored 100Mbps speeds, and in some dialog over the last week with colleagues [...]
This is a test post to make sure functionality is working after a server move.
Yep, we’d been hosting with The Planet for a long time, 5+ years. The system was strong, but we got a few releases behind on Fedora and we were worried the disks were getting old and creaky. So, [...]