Bryan Strawser

In Boston with the boss and others from the “real job” – back Friday night…

Improving mod_perl Site Performance: Part 4. Your web server may have plenty of memory, but are you making the best use of it? Stas Bekman explains how to optimize Apache and mod_perl for the most efficient memory use. [Perl.com Perl.com]

Historian Stephen Ambrose, who is interviewed on the PBS News Hour today: “You can do whatever the hell you want. Who’s going to criticize you? And if they do, what the hell do you care?” [Scripting News]

Help me understand why?  I wrote a shitty letter to Major League Baseball. 

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link to metsonline.net. As a Mets fan since 1962, I think it’s great that sites like this exist and are flourishing. Like Bryan Hoch, the webmaster, I also run websites as a labor of love, and know there isn’t generally a whole lot of money left over after you pay for bandwidth. I totally believe Hoch, a college student, when he says he isn’t making money. The site clearly disclaims that it is not representative of the Mets or Major League Baseball. If you go deeper you see that Hoch contributed his time for free to help the Mets improve their own site, before all sites were taken over by MLB in 2001 (what a bad idea, why can’t teams differentiate themselves based on the quality of their community sites). Now of course there’s another side to it, so let’s keep an open mind. But to the owners of the Mets, please remember, it’s the fans that make it work, and it’s pretty clear that this website is from the fans, for the fans and the team, and that’s a good thing. [Scripting News]

Ok, so he acted like an idiot sometimes.  You have to admit the guy was at least pretty entertaining.

Traficant Gets 8 Years in Prison for Corruption. Los Angeles Times Jul 30 2002 2:43PM ET [Moreover – Crime and punishment news]

I looked at Moveable Type, and Gray Matter, and other blogging tools.  They’re all nice.  Moveable Type is especially slick.

I don’t like them half as much as I like Radio Userland.

With Radio, I can sit on an airplane – as I do far too often – and work on my weblog, my content, and read the news.  I can’t do this with those other tools.  That alone is worth sticking with Radio in my mind.  But there’s a thousand other reasons as well.

Dave’s right – Radio has more features….

10’s Links: “When and if I’m ready, I’ll move up to Moveable Type, hire Blogatelle, pay for a server, etc., but for now I enjoy this alternative.”

I’ve seen this too often not to say something. I think Radio has a lot more features than Moveable Type. Sometimes people confuse difficulty with feature richness. MT is designed to run n Unix, which means that it can be difficult for average people, because Unix already presents a high barrier. Radio is designed for Mac and Windows users, not developers (although it has deep features when you lift the hood), so it has to be easy to set up and use to work.  [Dave’s Handsome Radio Blog!]

Great, but short, interview about Adam Curry.

Is Adam Curry is a corporate MoFo? Look it up. And what a coincidence. I taught that exact word to Young Patrick Scoble yesterday. He’s going to Portland, OR today to teach it to his cousin. “;->” [Scripting News]