The very first website ever was created at CERN in 1989. Here is their official recreation of that original site:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
and, for the record, a CNN article about the website
Everyone talks about Bigfoot, but nobody ever does anything about them. Until now.
The Olympia Beer, the brewing company is offering a very generous $1,000,000 for "irrefutable evidence" for the existence of Bigfoot. They've set the bar pretty high. You need DNA and visual proof of a live physical body. Basically hair and a photo.
I'll post again if I hear about an award being made. Here's the full story:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/olympia-beer-bigfoot-idUSnPnS…
On his blog, Sam Harris has posted a powerful commentary on guns. His position is not readily pigeon-holed as pro or anti gun, but rather he concedes certain realities and necessities with his customary rationality, logic and clarity. I find myself not always comfortable with his conclusions and positions, but I am nevertheless in essentially complete agreement.
I've chosen one paragraph from his commentary which seems to me right to the point:
"We could do many things to ensure that only fully vetted people could get a licensed firearm. The fact that 40 percent of all guns in the U.S. are legally purchased from private sellers without background checks on the buyers (the so-called “gun show loophole”) is terrifying. Getting a gun license could be made as difficult as getting a license to fly an airplane, requiring dozens of hours of training. I would certainly be happy to see policy changes like this. In that respect, I support much stricter gun laws. But I am under no illusions that such restrictions would make it difficult for bad people to acquire guns illegally. Given the level of violence in our society, the ubiquity of guns, and the fact that our penitentiaries function like graduate schools for violent criminals, I think sane, law-abiding people should have access to guns. In that respect, I support the rights of gun owners."
Better screening, background checks and training. But many perfectly decent sane people will still feel a need to own guns. I think I can live with that.
This is the actual lead sentence from a USAToday story today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/15/texas-train-crash/…
origins diverse
from throughout the universe
there is no better verse
than 'nature is perverse'
Joel Pett, a cartoonist with the Lexington-Herald Leader, has brilliantly captured the silliness of opposition to climate friendly policies with the caption:
"What if it's all a hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
The cartoon itself is widely reproduced on the internet, but I haven't paid the fees to reproduce it here. Still, you should be able to find it at one of these links:
OK, I do mostly like Netflix. Even though they often won't stream the film I'd really like to watch, usually I can find something I haven't seen. But their "Suggestions For You" are, often as not, just silly.
Here are two examples Netflix thought I'd like, and why:
Initial website:
Content generation
anonymous, ab test
admin, ab test
Benchmark Protocol
I host a number of low traffic Drupal (drupal.org) websites. Several for a non-profit, a few consulting shops, a book & poetry site. Low traffic, but a couple sites use lots of drupal modules, so performance and resource limits can sometimes be issues.
I've used hotdrupal.com as my hosting service for some years. They've really been excellent. First rate. I've only needed support a few times and they've always been prompt and professional. But the big thing, for me, is the accounts are highly optimized for drupal. My webpages load in less than 200 ms (thats a Drupal Devel module timing number). I've toyed with other hosts but nothing comes close. Part of it the large php memory_limit = 160M in the stock php.ini for my account. Nice. But they've obviously got other optimizations too.
Still, nothing lasts forever. As Drupal grows, and as my websites grow, I've used more and more resources. Currently I'm bumping into my account's 3GB disk space limit. And that includes the MySQL databases. One of those is using > 400 MB. That's as reported by Cpanel, which is the number that counts toward my allowed quotas. phpMyAdmin reports less than half that number, but I gather this discrepancy is fairly common.
Now, hotdrupal.com isn't all that generous on disk space. They say they provide premium disk space (meaning fast), so they can't provide unlimited amounts of space. I'd just get more diskspace, but for the incremental cost I could price myself into another provider.
