Lee Byron has come up with a really cool way of visualising last.fm data. Here is the graph for the 29degrees office since we set the jukebox up in mid-April:
If you have your own last.fm account you can generate your own graphs here.
This afternoon we experienced a brief outage, during which about half our users seemed to lose their subscriptions.
Fair enough, it was only temporary, but wait here’s the reason:
This can happen when one of the many complex systems that power Google Reader experiences a glitch.
No kidding, a glitch! And I was sure it was going to be a bug or a gremlin! That has to be one of the most redundant sentences ever.
Thanks Carl for spotting this on the BBC:
Original here (click 5), though it might not be there long. Update: the original has been removed.
LOLTHEORISTS. OK, no more LOL* posts. None. Finished.
Seen on my way to work this morning:
Carl has written a google gears demo, the ‘Disk-space Reserver‘. As all this does is use up all your disk-space it would probably be a better idea just to read about it on his blog.
Javascript Vi, wrong!
This feature enables you to read your 2000 most recent items even when your computer is not connected to the internet.
Useful. I haven’t tried it out yet, but I should be inheriting an old Powerbook G4 in a couple of weeks and will definitely make use of it then (link to Google blog entry detailing the feature).
