The Blackboard

Today, I’m going to try something that may reduce the memory problems– but it may also make things worse temporarily. I am going to set “SuperCache” to create a preload cache of every blog post. This could reduce CPU and memory by eventually make the blog deliver static pages when people (and mostly ‘bots and [...]

Frequent commenters have noticed that the blog is throwing a lot of server errors lately. I have not been able to identify the precise cause. Communicating with Dreamhost, it appears that something launches a process that loads a large amount of memory. This causes Dreamhost to start killing processes to keep my from taking down [...]

DeNihilist raised the subject of temperature reconstructions at Keith’s blog, suggesting the fact that blogs like mine are doing a service of investigating a contention issue that is highly visible to the public. Bart responded suggesting that scientific and public discussions differ, writing, Yet they also show in which way the scientific and public discussion [...]

Hi all: I hope you all had a lovely 3 day weekend. I made it a 5 day weekend. I posted a sea ice thread. I grilled, I tanned, I visited Popsie-Wopsie in Highland Park. I did not really read many comments. It looks like many of my visitors will be returning to notice the [...]

Crack reporting at CBS! Today’s Quakes Deadlier Than In Past Study: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming The article citing Dr. Tom Chalko appeared in 2008, but is still running. It seems fresher now, doesn’t it? Those with long memories will recall Dr. Chalko’s being discussed previous [...]

While surfing, an Adsense add caught my eye; I clicked the link and found this:software to autoblog create splogs. It appears the user selects a keyword (e.g. “lose weight”), then the software surfs the web to articles containing that word and republishes them. In principle, one can use this to create a nice, non-copyright violating [...]

My “spam” box has been filling lately, and the spam plugin has also been making lots of mistakes. To reduce spam, I’ve added a new plugin: Comment E-Mail Verification. Supposedly, if you have previously posted comments, you will not notice anything. If you have not previously posted a comment, the plugin will send an email [...]

In comments, visitors have been wondered how many Australians visit the Blackboard. I answered pointing to Alexa.com (which is quite approximate.) Then someone wanted to know how many Swiss visit? I suspect many regular readers are little curious. I’ll show you my google analytics counts. Google analytics tracks when the script I placed in the [...]

Paul Dennis of University of East Anglia has started a new blog called Harmonic Oscillator. I’ve added this to my blogroll and encourage you to visit a time or two over the next few weeks. Good luck Paul!

Immediately after I clicked “publish”, I wondered if I could discover more details about getting tickets to the Tim Lambert/ Lord Monckton debate. I went to google and searched “Tim Lambert Monckton debate sydney 12 February” . My blog post appeared in the search results with an indication that I had posted 50 seconds ago! [...]