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Hey there! A friend asked if Vimeo, who were then thinking of going with for plip.com videos, supported our camera’s AVHCD Light format. I’m happy to report, it does! Here’s to quick test clips I shot. Noteworthy is that Vimeo Plus, though a bit pricey, has excellent privacy settings which was a huge selling point to me.
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A bit ago I wrote a post about using command line tools to get stats of this blog. I recently wrote another version of this to get the most popular posts here, sorted by the most popular at the top. I love that this can be done in all in one command.
Here’s the command:
tail -1000000 access_log|grep 'GET /blog'|cut -d" " -f 7|egrep -v '.png|.jpg|wp-includes|.css|/page/|/category/|xmlrpc|wp-trackback|/feed/|wp-login|/wp-content/|/trackback/|wp-comments|wp-app.php|wp-admin|comment-page|index.php|?p=|page_id|comments|feed'|sort|cut -d"/" -f 3|uniq -c|grep -v ' 1 '|sort -nr>plip.blog.tops.txt
This breaks down into the following:
The results are in! The winner is currently chocolate-crinkle-cookie-photos! W00T
137 chocolate-crinkle-cookie-photos
119 two-loves-css-recaptcha
109 24-hours-in-photos
104 our-pet-venus-fly-trap
103 ruby-less-way-to-add-key-frames-to-flv-videos-for-the-likes-of-jwplayer
94 toss-your-salad-code
91 update-firefox-does-have-reset-more
91 firefox-reset-is-really-launch-in-safe-mode
84 keep-those-passwords-safe
81 photos-food-bikes-sunsets-and-stars
79 thoughts-on-very-large-monitors
78 when-the-cat-is-away-the-worms-will-play
76 photos-from-around-the-bay
76 our-tree
75 one-foggy-morning-in-my-commute
74 wordpress-exploit-fog-fruit-plants-and-plates
72 recaptcha-now-google-recaptcha-will-help-google-books
72 from-burning-man-town-to-oaktown
67 gmaps-pedometer-google-calc-8-94607843-minutes-per-mile
66 the-massive-compost-tower
65 on-theft-privacy-and-data-loss
64 pizza-and-dough-from-scratch
60 this-is-not-an-ipad
60 go-faster-encoding
57 fixed-theme-wp-updated-more-wp-hacks
44 every-vehicle-is-a-prius
42 photorec-to-the-rescue
41 the-very-very-poor-mans-google-analytics-tail-cut-sort-uniq-wc
41 on-comcast-internet
38 taking-the-plunge-safari-4-full-time
35 secret-jumps-of-tunnel
35 i-got-four-cores-but-a-distributed-load-aint-on-one
34 stir-fry-dinner
33 tasty-comfort-food
32 fancy-diff
26 how-to-fix-zend-studio-5-5-zde-in-os-10-6-snow-leopard
24 ping-traceroute-and-quotes
22 wordpress-rich-mans-blog-poor-mans-cms
21 new-news-old-open-source
20 old-broken-usb-hub-ipod-charger
19 gmail-contest
19 alternate-way-to-have-google-analytics-track-pdfs
17 this-is-what-makes-a-happy-saturday
17 macchiato
16 american-born-chinese
15 rogue-mysql-queries
15 fixed-gear-slipped-chain-thankful-for-brake
13 simple-wp
13 plip-is-no-longer-a-cobblers-child
11 plix-plixing-better
11 itunes-imovie-on-lenovos-new-media-center-pc
10 wonderful-bike-lane-signs
10 this-is-what-makes-a-happy-sunday
10 plip-ts-on-your-back
9 plipgo-01-released
9 bart-speaks
8 yet-another-redesign
7 update-plip-content
7 plixing-for-pleasure
7 plip-for-peace
7 long-be-gone
7 kodiak-11-released
7 dot-com-casualty
7 dont-just-commit-commit-intelligently
6 verge-works-solves-all-your-woes
6 simpsons-for-ever
6 simple-is-better
6 plip-gets-its-own-dictionary
5 aids-ride-completed
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This is nothing but a repost of a slightly older fix, but this is AWESOME!
Fixing ZDE 5.5 in Snow Leopard
Enjoy!
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Note to self – don’t make the water too hot or you’ll kill the yeast.
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Two quick points about Comcast High Speed Internet (HSI):
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Now, we all know that I have a little problem with wanting lots of monitors. It should come as no surprise that I LOVE high pixels per inch (PPI) screens. In fact, when ever I see a new laptop with a 24″ inch screen (1920 x 1400) crammed into at 17″, I day dream of a getting such a beast in standalone form for my desktop.
With that in mind, I’ve been keeping a close eye to the large monitor offerings. Of course the defacto large monitor was the first 30″ for consumers, Apples Cinema display. However, at $1800, it’s not really for most consumers unless you’re like our friend over at Omnipotent who has one 30″ and two 24″ from back when the 30″ was a lot more than $1800. More recently Apple has come out with the the 27″ iMac running at 2560 x 1440. This is a very sweet LED backlit display with a video input, “27-inch models also support input from external DisplayPort sources (adapters sold separately).” – Apple. Since it’s such a sweet display, some folks are considering it a really nice $1600 display that happens to come with a free computer.
The poor man’s Apple monitor has always been Dell. If you look closely at my desk at work, you’ll see they’re all old school Dell 2405FPWs. When Apple’s 24″ was something like $800 (no reference easily found in google), Dell’s was something like $400. At my office back in aught five, the original founders were sporting 30″ Apples, but soon, every one had a 24″ Dell. We’ve now standardized on more or less the Dell ST2410 for most folks at $260. This one is not adjustable height and has so so contrast. Some folks may get the much nicer Dell UltraSharp U2410 for $600 which is a far superior monitor to the ST2410 and it’s ilk. Super fancy folks (aka a few designers and engineers) get the Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC for $1400. Note, all these prices are much less than Apples.
Really the point of this post is that Dell today announced the UltraSharp U2711 for $1100. This is a 27″ monitor with the sweet, high PPI resolution of 2560 x 1440. I suspect it is not as nice as Apple’s iMac display because it’s not LED. However, at $500 less than the iMac, it’s much more affordable. No, not quite in the range of most consumers, but both the 27″ iMac and the U2711 Dell suggest there’s a higher PPI trend which will lead to lower cost, higher PPI monitors which is all I want.
