As many of you already know, page load speed is very important to your visitors’ user experience. I’m looking forward to quantifying the improvement caused by this tweak. I’m also looking forward to seeing how this effects our server loads. 

http://www.canonicalseo.com/wordpress-performance-improvement/

Posted via email from Vi Wickam’s posterous

You may also find this HTACCESS/mod_rewrite cheat sheet useful:
http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/

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It’s nice to get agreement on this from someone as brilliant as Roy H. Williams (The Wizard of Ads)

http://www.mondaymorningmemo.com/?ShowMe=Jan4b

PS. I can help you get found online…

http://barcamp.pbworks.com/CityCamp

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Listen to the Swine Flu Blues, and let me know what you think with a comment below.

A little fiddle, a little blues, and a whole lot of silly swinging satire.

The Swine Flu Blues features Vi Wickam singing, fiddling, playing mandolin, and showing off his song-writing chops, too.

“Good music is good melody,” says Vi. “If you like it, it’s bitchin’. If you don’t, it sucks.” Vi said that too, but he liberated it from Frank (the original mother of invention) Zappa.

The song is catchy. It’s beat is upbeat and lively. And the satire is more fun than biting. After all, who wants biting when we’re talking about the flu bug?

As you’ll hear on this song, Vi plays fiddle pretty well; he’s a regular competitor and judge at fiddling contests around the US. He’s also pretty good on other stringed instruments, too. Even those with frets.

But what you’re really asking yourself is; “What’s with the name?“

Vi is short for Vivan – NOT Vivian. It’s not quite as bad as a boy named Sue, but it’s close. The big problem is that whenever people read Vivan, they throw an extra “I” in there for good measure, so he just goes by Vi. He was named after his Dad, and Grandpa Vi Wickam, who also handed down the family fiddle, a great love of music, and more than a little talent. (Thanks, Grandpa.)

“Swine Flu Blues is a timely satirical acoustic lament. It features Vi Wickam on Vocals, Mandolin, and Fiddle. If you enjoy acoustic blues, you will love the Swine Flu Blues.

I’m glad somebody was well enough to get off the couch and write this! It’s a little topical time capsule of funky fiddling, tasteful mandolin playing, and heartfelt singing.”

Megan Lynch
http://www.fiddlestar.com

http://www.beml.info

Special Thanks to:
Tyler Andal – for help with mixing the audio
Lani Nielsen – for help with writing the lyrics

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks

I hope that Google addresses this EULA issue soon, because I do like the clean layout, and responsiveness of Chrome.

Also after reading the Chrome Comic, I really like what they have done in the background with precise garbage collection, and multithreaded rendering. Overall, the product is pretty brilliant, but they really need to fix the EULA.

The internet is abuzz and with good reason.  It is the fastest loading easiest to use browser that I have used so far. I will comment again after using it for a while, but at this point I’m impressed.

It’s open source and rebuilt from the ground up with today’s web applications in mind.

Download Chrome:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chrome-now-live.html

Information and a link to a comic strip explaining how it works:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html