by ezs | Jan 1, 2006 | blogging, Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Guy Kawasaki (author of such titles as “Selling the Dream” – another must read book) has a new blog.
One of his first posts really rings true – about the use (and abuse) of PowerPoint.
I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Nice. I hope I try to keep to this rule during 2006. I’ve certainly been trimming my slideware dramatically in the last year; talk and interaction (traditional “conversations”) are much more effective than the Dilbert-esque death by PowerPoint.
Guy is a renowned technology evangelist – I’ll be following his blog with interest.
by ezs | Dec 31, 2005 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Time to test and upgrade all the blogs methinks.
Looks like a lot of new features – for me (the admin) and for everyone who posts. Nice work chaps.
by ezs | Dec 27, 2005 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’m working on switching my WordPress installation to version 2.0 and updating my theme to something fresh for the New Year.
I’ve found a cool resource for some nice looking themes – wpthemes.info.
by ezs | Dec 20, 2005 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
WordPress 2.0 is close. Release Candidate 3 is now available.
I’ve installed on a non-live server – and things work ok right now. Some testing needed on the plugins – but fingers crossed.
by ezs | Nov 29, 2005 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
A few weeks into using Google Analytics – and I must say I’m very impressed.
The data collected is stunning – for example – 70% of blog visitors use Firefox (not surprising for a tech blog)
Also currently 5% of my blog visitors are from a microsoft.com domain. A hearty hello if you’re in Redmond right now.
Now I was tracking a lot of this before – by trawling my apache logs. Google Analytics is just easier – and it produces pretty graphs!
The only downside – and I don’t recall seeing many blogs on this point yet – is the payload of the tracking technology. The analytics uses javascript – and downloads a huge 17KB of script. It’s not a lot – but the latency is noticable on some sites.
by ezs | Nov 17, 2005 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Lots of people commenting that Google Analytics is suffering under the load. My data is pretty slow coming in.
Tecosystems, Tim Bray and a few more.
Even Google acknowledges the additional load:
Update: 11:28 AM PST. Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Currently, report updating for Google Analytics is experiencing delays. As a result, you may not be seeing any data in your reports even after implementing the Analytics tracking code.
We are currently in the process of updating all reports. You should be able to see these updates in several hours. While this is going on, you may notice different reports updating at different rates. Once this process has completed, all data should be restored to your profiles. Please be assured that this update process has no effect on data collection.
We apologize for any inconvenience. This reporting delay is associated with unexpected demand for Google Analytics. Under normal circumstances, the data in your reports will be at most six hours old.
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