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Wednesday, August 14, 2002Jon Udell on Blog migration, PageRank, and AuthorRank
Last week, when I moved this weblog to its new home, I left some loose ends. I'd meant to redirect my old homepage and RSS file to their new counterparts, but it wasn't immediately apparent how to get Radio to upload a page containing a client-side redirect.
My tool for migrating Radio sites was meant to solve exactly the sorts of problems that Jon talks about.
Carnage on the Highways
My friend Dann sent me a chilling e-mail yesterday:
Check out what I witnessed this weekend.
I was right behind the Ford Explorer that hit the Honda. Had I been ten feet closer to the Ford, I would have been part of the accident. As it was, I ended up over the fuel trail left by the Honda and the fire spread back underneath my car, forcing me to backup.
An American tradgedy, an immigrant loses his wife and two children in an accident that likely would have been non-fatal were it not for the American obsession with SUVs. I make an effort not to curse here, but damn I hate those fucking things. Everything that has been done to make cars safer since the 1960s is worthless when a Truck-based SUV collides with a normal-sized car. Simple physics trumps engineering every time.
Truck-based SUVs ought to be taxed, licensed, and otherwise regulated back into obscurity.
Update: It occurs to me that I shouldn't pick on just Truck-based SUVs. There are several large SUVs that aren't based on actual truck platforms, and a few of them actually have unibodies.
Andrew Orlowski of The Register:
"In the movie Memento, the Guy Pierce character suffers from a condition in which his short-term memory only lasts around two minutes. InfoWorld has taken the precaution of assuming that all of its readers suffer from an extreme version of this affliction: where the short term memory lasts only four or five words. That's why we need to keep being reminded what a 'server' is … twenty three times an article."
[via Scripting News]
I've written before that Links within an InfoWorld article offer no value. The Register article says that they had linked to an InfoWorld article with none of the usual lame hyperlinks, but that they were added later. Looking today, it appears that InfoWorld is trying to disguise their hyperlinks as regular text.
Stupid.
