Posted on December 27, 2006 at 2:06 PM in round-ups
Note: The below is an archived entry from Earthling, formerly EarthLink's official blog. The blog itself has been decommissioned and is no longer updated, and comments are trackbacks are no longer accepted.
As I ease back in to the Earthling chair after some restful time off, here's a grab bag of stuff worth looking at from the past week or so:
- Web Mail Guy Explains Performance Monitoring - I've been meaning to point to this for some time. John put together an interesting and thorough explanation of one of the tools the EarthLink Web Mail team uses to keep tabs on system performance, complete with graphs that make sense.
- Blog-media Cliches - As Tom (new start page Tom) put it, it's like a Strunk and White treatment of commonly used phrases in blogs and comments. I guess in 2007 I should esolve to purge some of these from common usage. Sorry, I'm holding on to "heh".
- Still Don't Have A Wii, But Been Eyeing People's Miis - I haven't been Wii-hunting all that hard, but I do a periodic spot check at Best Buy and Target to see if I happen upon one in the wild. Looks like I'm missing out on all of the Mii fun. A Mii is the character you make to represent yourself within the Wii world. The link is someone's sweet Figrin D'an-lookin Mii, and here's a whole gallery of Miis.
- Blogging Wills - Problogger picked up an interesting story about whether you might want to organize your blog information so that they are taken care of in whatever way you prefer in the event of your death.
- MySpace Security Measures - Many news outlets picked up the story of MySpace's beefed up "Content Assurance Team" led by former Federal Prosecutor Hemanshu Nigam, with the mission of tracking down spammers and predators abusing the site.
- Wired's Foot-in-mouth Awards - It's got some of the best oops lines of 2006, including "series of tubes," and "the google."