Cringely gives himself a generous 80% on last year’s predictions, and makes a few for 2004 in “Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Bob’s Predictions for 2004”
Not a bad set of guesses, all in all.
Archive | 2004
The Best of O’Reilly’s OnLAMP
O’Reilly and Associates host a hopping web site along with publishing all of those books with the intriguing animals on the cover. Fellow Foxer Ed Leafe points out a column by chromatic summarizing his picks for The Best Articles of 2003. Check out the articles – there’s some good stuff in there!
Fight clutter: store it better — or throw it away!
Michelle Slatalla writes a great column at the [New York Times: Technology page on Clutter Combat: Containing the Enemy. “Enough containers are available on the Web to help tame the clutter in any closet.”
There is, however, another solution. With support and encouragement from Laura, I’ve spent the past month cleaning out all of the cruft that accumulated in an old office, in preparation for moving in with new furniture and a new iMac. While it was challenging at first, and there’s still a small ton of paper to shred (I can’t believe how many pieces of paper have my SSN on them!), major progress has been made, and the place is actually looking pretty good!
2004: Looking back and looking forward
Jim Louderback posts the Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever and Tech Predictions for 2004(link via Slashdot)
Marshall Loeb: Ten top trends for 2003 (via Ole Eichorn via Scoble)
So, who visits your web site?
Happy New Year. Inspired by Joi Ito’s post, I took advantage of the morning to do some analyses of last year’s weblogs. Yeah, what a geek.
Assisted by the fantastic (and free!) Analog package to analyze the logs, ReportMagic to spiff up the presentation, and QuickDNS to convert the IP addresses into domain names, here is what I found: 220,000 requests, total. 778 DEFAULT.IDA exploits, rejected. 20,000 requests for the BAFUG.GIF, displayed on the http://www.foxcentral.net web site as well as the Visual FoxPro Task Pane Community Pane. 19,000 requests for the FoxCentral RSS 2.0 feed, 12,000 requests for the http://fox.wikis.com RSS 2.0 feed. For their RSS 1.0 feeds, the requests were 4,000 and 5,800, respectively. The RO BOTS.TXT file was requested over 3,000 times, not surprisingly, as the GoogleBot, InkToMi and Teoma search engines made it to the top 20 most popular domains.
Glad to see the site is getting some use.