Claire got straight A’s again earning another 10 songs off iTunes.She could only come up with 9 a few weeks ago, but this morning she announced she had decided on her 10th tune– Radio Killed The Video Star by the Buggles (1979.)

Bellsouth fixed something in May that cured some outage problems. Since then DSL has been reliable and zippy. In fact, I was surprised how quickly the 4 megabyte Video Killed song came down, so I did another speed test. The 1.22 Mbps download is a bit faster than all previous tests, so I think it all comes down to Bellsouth getting something squared away that hasn’t been square for about a year. Uploads are much slower, but that is expected.

Download Statistics 1.04 MB

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Best Speed = 1.22 Mbps, Average speed = 1.22 Mbps

Worst Speed = 1.22 Mbps, Average time taken = 7.14 secs

Upload Statistics 1.04 MB

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Best Speed = 0.21 Mbps, Average speed = 0.21 Mbps

Worst Speed = 0.21 Mbps, Average time taken = 40.57 secs

I’ve added some code to my blogs from Snap.com that creates “Snap Shots” for external links. I tend to reference other places on the web, so any external link will now feature a little balloon (indicated by red arrow below.) If you float your mouse over the external link, you get a quick preview of the web page. With links to Wikipedia, Snap Shots goes one step further and makes the text very readable. For example, float over this link to Five Forks, Georgia.

In the example below, I’m floating my mouse over a link to an Apple ad, and you can quickly tell which ad it is… the one with the “Mac Genius.”

Ted should probably add Snap Shots to his blog since he does external links.

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DSL Speed Test 3-30-2007

Note: Outages all week. 1080 d, 128 u

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3:19 PM 2/11/2007

All lines rewired and phones installed. DSL splitter & POTS sealed and caulked.

http://speedtest.cfl.mybrighthouse.com/

1.04MB

3 x (d) 1104/ 1088 / 1104

3 x (u) 208 / 208 / 208

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Tests prior to discovering moisture and bugs in the POTS.

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mac.fiveforks.com

Rosary Army

Ted’s Blog

Ed’s Blog

 

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Retrospect (backup software) comes with a number of external scripts. One I use to e-mail reports on backup success and failures. I needed to add another that would shut down a Domino server and then restart it after successful backups. The help files say: “If you need to run multiple scripts you will have to combine them.” So with that little clue, I spent time figuring out how to modify a DOS batch file. The secret ended up creating a series of “IF” statements up front that would identify the calling scripts (alternating weekly backup scripts) that needed to shut down the Domino server. My mods in bold….

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I use FireFox as my browser, in part to avoid what I believe are greater security risks using Internet Explorer. I use FireFox on Windows and Mac.

The number of video ads have been growing on the sites I visit to read up on news, especially on My Yahoo and in blogs. I did a search for advertising blockers on the FireFox web page and found AdBlock Plus.

It installed very easily, and asked me to pick an ad blocking filter service. I chose the first one called EasyList (USA). I went to My Yahoo and was very happy to see no banner ad at the top. Not only was it not showing, but all the news items shifted up so the banner space was put to better use.

I went to one of my favorite blogs and found good news there, too. No moving iTunes ad that I was used to seeing. Although I actually felt a little bad about that, since I’d much rather support Scot than Yahoo.

Later as I worked on updating our church website, I found a surprise. The random photo in the header did not show. I quickly figured out it was because I was using the banner ad feature in Joomla, which is the system I use to update the site. Instead of showing banner ads, I show snapshots from the church photo gallery. If someone clicks on the photo, it jumps to the photo album. Much more fun than real banner ads, but AdBlock Plus doesn’t know that. It just sees the word “banner” in the image source path so it blocks it.

Quickly figured out that a click on the “ADP” button let me choose… “Disable blocks from www.sjnlilburn.com.” The ADB button turned from red to green, and the photos are back.

I recommend FireFox and AdBlock Plus!

Salal built a tool that will graph a web page, displaying the different tags like images, tables, and links. The resulting graph provides a visual clue to the organization of the home page (or any page.) This is Mac5:

Color indicates the most used tags in the following way:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Testing Amazon wishlist code: