Spooky visitor labeling

Hi Sara, Brian and Zach.

This “visitor labeling” feature I’ve been working on is kinda spooky, isn’t it?

Who are Digg.com’s Users?

W3Counter.com’s global stats report was recently featured on Digg.com, the community-driven link sharing site. It isn’t the first time W3Counter’s been voted to the top as Digg’s users are passionate about technology and love to know what everyone else is using — what browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions — the exact stats W3Counter reports [...]

Reduce Load By Storing Sessions in Memory

Another quick tip for reducing server load: keep your sessions in memory instead of on disk. For a dynamic, high traffic site, like a very active message board, your disk is already busy handling all the database work. Take some load off it by moving session storage to memory.

Reorganization Project

It’s time to reorganize Awio’s infrastructure. Two of the servers I rent are too old and the monthly fees too high for the hardware. The operating systems and software versions have become incredibly difficult to secure from very persistent hackers. The third server used to run my websites has a partially corrupted hard drive [...]

Windows Vista Installation Sucks

I like Windows Vista. A lot. I’ve been running it full time on multiple computers since September. But the installation process sucks. I’ve done it 7 or 8 times now, and it only just worked once. That was the first time I installed it on my Averatec laptop as an upgrade from Win XP [...]