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Come Clean
Found this today via Jimmy Jett’s Podcast About Nothing: http://comeclean.com. Make sure you have sound turned up and headphones on when you visit. It’s a site that you can “come clean” and confess your wrongdoings or you can view what others have confessed. It’s narrated by a woman with a beautiful (Indian?) accent. It’s actually a very funny site – keep an eye on the bottom too – funny things pop up there – mine said “We have received a lot of murder confessions – we hope you were kidding.”
512 MB of RAM is not enough!
This is freakin’ annoying……I have only 512MB of RAM in my work computer – a 2.6 Ghz machine, but only 512MB of RAM. I have to run 2 instances of Weblogic and 1 instance of JBoss at the same time – that means it takes like 5 minutes to compile a JSP!. AARRGGHH! Heck – I have a 1GB flash drive on my keychain but only 512 MB of memory in my work machine. Doesn’t make sense.
Custom 404 pages
I spent a few minutes and made a custom 404 page for this site. Try hitting any non-existent page like http://myvogonpoetry.com/thispageisnthere and you can see it. Hit refresh to see a different version of it. If you are running Apache it’s really easy to create a custom 404 page – you pretty much just have to create a page and put it somewhere on your site then at the root of your site you put a .htaccess file that has this in it:
ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/errorpage
You can even do some fancy stuff with like PHP like show the user what URL they were trying to access. Here are some examples of error pages I did on my other sites (I really like the one I did for thebrokenkoystick.com):
http://thebrokenjoystick.com/thispageisnthere
http://pipasoft.com/thispageisnthere
Webware
I think I am going to create a new category of posts called webware. These will be posts about websites that are essentially software, except the software is on the web. Sites like FeedDigest, GMail, BackPack, Mailinator, and AudioScrobbler would count as webware. In fact, I am going to create a Wikipedia page for webware right now – maybe this will start a trend of people using this as a word.