April 2008
77 posts
Done. All pages now use SSI for html head section, blog title and navigation.
Attempting to make my blog use server side includes to ease some of the pain of the current solution
everythingbehind.muxtape.com →
Ben’s muxtape - to listen.
Feeling the pain of my blog being static…
Twitter Twerp Scan →
Useful tool that makes it easy to identify and block those spammy twitter followers.
Porting my mobile number from three to o2 - even though it has been nice essentially not having a phone for the last few weeks.
Tweaking my blog some more.
Registering for Radio 1’s big weekend
Yay - new template deployed - http://blog.seagul.co.uk
YouTube - Sicamp 2008 →
SI Camp highlights. It’s just reminded me quite how productive people can be when they’re passionate about what they’re doing.
New blog template - http://blog.seagul.co.uk/blog1.html - Lots to do but I think it’s better than the current theme.
Looking for really simple css templates I can steal for my blog.
Vim documentation: options (directory) →
James pointed out that it’s probably useful to have swap files hanging around, in case you prematurely close the terminal for example. I currently use ‘~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp’ but couldn’t get it to…
Parallels 2.5 Download →
I couldn’t find a link to this anywhere on their site and my licence for Parallels 2 didn’t work in version 3. I got this by emailing and asking where I could download v2.
Installing Leopard on my shiny new hard disk (got as far as sudo apt-get install ruby on ubuntu).
Installing ubuntu in vmware
Downloading ubuntu as an alternative to Windows now that my Macbook hard drive has died (again).
Vim documentation: options →
Setting this to 0 avoids the creation of .swp files. This appears to be better than setting directory=”” as then you get warnings that the swap file can’t be created.
How To Add A File Extension To vim Syntax... →
Explains how to add syntax highlighting to different file extensions: I set .rake to use the ruby syntax highlighting.
cobrowse :: Firefox Add-ons →
A tool to help with pairing: share browser sessions with this firefox extension. I haven’t tried it yet.
Possibly (probably) the saddest thing I’ve done - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjroos/sets/72157604610555285/
Is there a maximum number of Trackers that can be... →
My message asking about a large number of trackers on one page.
Asus eee Tom's Guide →
These guys are submitting page data to two analytics accounts.
Multiple Adwords accounts and Analytics - Tracking... →
It sounds like this guy is seeing what Sam mentioned: all AdWord accounts have auto-tagging enabled but we’re still seeing traffic being incorrectly allocated in Analytics.
Got ‘ajaxified’, ‘ajaxification’ and ‘ajaxificated’ into one email - brilliant.
Wondering how long it’ll be until @michael_jones dents his new macbook air and starts crying. Crying like a baby.
MySQL Bugs: #28854: MySQL.prefPane does not start... →
I needed the updated MySql Preference Pane from here in order to start/stop MySql from the Pref Pane. The Preference Pane in the MySql disk image I downloaded didn’t work at all.
Installing and Customizing the Google Analytics... →
The manual for the new ga.js GA javascript. Lots of useful info in here, including how to track visitors across domains (maybe useful if our retailers use GA??)
brad's life - gpg hates me now →
This was what I needed to do when I was getting the ‘There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user’ error from gpg.
Yay. Leaving my backup hard drive for three days appears to have done the trick. Restoring data…
poolingresources : Pooling Resources →
A Yahoo Group dedication to campaining against swimming pool closures.
Going to drink beer because beer is good for you. Fact.
MySQL :: How to Monitor and Speed up 'LOAD DATA... →
Some more info on speeding up, and monitoring, the import of data into innodb tables.
MySQL :: Re: Innodb Slows Down to a crawl on Load... →
Some suggestions for speeding up the import of large datasets into innodb tables.
The value of page views and why publishers stick... →
Post arguing against the use of Page Impressions as something that advertising can be sold on.
Bumped into someone I haven’t seen for about five years, in Waterloo Station at rush hour. That’s weird.
Faceoff: Google Analytics Vs. Server Logs |... →
One comment on this post mentions that GA will report 10-15% less pageviews that server logs. The article itself suggests that 10% of users disable javascript.
Tracking Code Migration Guide →
A useful comparison of usrchin.js functions to their newer, shinier, ga.js counterparts.
Tracking Data for Multiple Google Analytics... →
Blog post detailing the changes required to the Urchin/GA javascript to allow you to record visits in multiple GA accounts. Possibly useful if you have multiple Adwords accounts that you want to link…
Installing and Customizing the Google Analytics... →
The manual for the new ga.js GA javascript. Lots of useful info in here, including how to track visitors across domains (maybe useful if our retailers use GA??)
Can I link my Analytics to my AdWords? →
This thread appears to suggest that you can only import cost data from one adwords account into one analytics account, but that you’ll see data from all adwords accounts in the GA adwords report (due…
what does "(content targeting)" mean? - Analytics... →
An explanation of the (content targeting) label that appears in the GA Adwords keyword report.
What's the difference between clicks, visits,... →
Help article covering the different terms used in Adwords and Analytics.
How should I set up Google Analytics for multiple... →
The recommended approach for linking our multiple adword accounts to analytics is to create separate analytics accounts for each adwords account.
Why is there no click data in my AdWords Campaigns... →
This is the reason we’re not seeing any cost/click data in the GA adwords report: the adwords account we’ve got linked doesn’t have any active campaigns.
Can I have multiple AdWords accounts? →
Hmm, apparently we should only be using one Adwords account…
Adwords campaign with visits no clicks. -... →
Someone else seeing the same as I in their GA Adwords report: visits but no clicks.
Looks like I may have spoken too soon. Going to the pub to sulk.
Hmm, apparently the hard drive containing my macbook backup is now ‘unreadable’. That’s good, right?
Hoping I’ve backed everything up…