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Entries for Monday, September 27, 2010

September 27, 2010

CloudFlare

Crazy smart security and caching system for websites. You repoint your domain’s DNS to their servers, and everything gets cached and filtered automagically. Comment spam has almost entirely disappeared since I installed it on my blog.

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A user's guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn't broken why fix it?

Fab post by Rev Dan Catt which handily summarises why I ignore anyone that ever uses the “#fail” hashtag on Twitter.

“Can’t you just give us the option to continue using the old version, it’s just a check-box and you have all the old code anyway. I manage the Databases for my company so I know its not that hard!”

Why Companies Should Insist that Employees Take Naps

I’m all about the midday nap.

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This is a news website article about a scientific finding

‘“Basically, this is a brief soundbite,” the scientist will say, from a department and university that I will give brief credit to. “The existing science is a bit dodgy, whereas my conclusion seems bang on” she or he will continue.’

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.