caching the browser tabs

[cellio]

Aside: LJ has been really crawling for me for the last several days. Is this happening to other people too, or do I have a local problem? (LJ is blocked at work, so I can't collect that data point.)

I've got a lot of stuff accumulating in browser tabs on a wide variety of topics, so...

The (spam)bot wars heat up, by jducoeur.

I'm a little behind in my tech news. siderea posted a helpful summary of the news about cracking the DRM code on DVDs and the subsequent firestorm on Digg.

merle_ on the true reasons behind the bee population problem.

Why programmers should never become ministers, link from aliza250. Satan is a MIS director who takes credit for more powers than he actually possesses, so people who aren't programmers are scared of him. God thinks of him as irritating but irrelevant.

insomnia on the new military rules that significantly limit participation in blogs, mailing lists, and so on. I saw an article that quoted an anonymous military source saying "we didn't mean that; use common sense". I don't know enough yet to have a handle on what's really going on, but it bears watching.

South Park Mac vs. PC, link from bkdelong.

Unconventional greeting cards, like "your painful breakup has made me feel less alone" and "your cell phone ringtone is damaging your career". Link from thatcrazycajun.

In light of my recent post about kippot in synagogues and elsewhere, I found this post on hair-covering by katanah interesting.

Cached for later reading: Clay Shirky: A group is its own worst enemy. (He's talking about online fora.) Link from Geek Etiquette.

And, for those in the SCA, what looks like a thoughtful and fascinating conversation about staying in-period at events versus talking about your computer, and why people go to events anyway, and what changes we might want to make. This post by msmemory has an overview and links to several other posts I would have mentioned here but now don't have to.

Comments

[geekosaur]

The LJ folks claim to have found and fixed a performance issue today, fwiw.
(and I still owe you a response elsewhere...)

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

Lj's been slow for me for about as long as it has been for you. No improvement right now.

Thanks for the Shirky link. Very interesting. (And I read half of it while waiting for your entry's page to load.)

[murphstein.livejournal.com]

Yes, very very very slow. I figured everyone in the Bay Area was using the same dial-up number that I was, but somehow I suspect you of being above a mere dial-up connection...

[cellio]

I've got DSL. But sites other than LJ are not similarly sluggish, so the network connection is unlikely to be to blame -- at least at our end.

I think it's their web server (or something it relies on). Pings come back quickly.

[goljerp]

Try turning off Javascript for *livejournal.com . It worked wonders for me.

(I use iCab on the mac, which lets you do that... but I bet firefox has an extension that would do the same.)

[cellio]

Good suggestion; thanks. Alas, it didn't make a difference for me, but it was a good thought. (I use Firefox with the NoScript extension, which lets me selectively enable/disable javascript.)

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the link to geek etiquette (http://geeketiquette.infotrope.net). You know it's syndicated on LJ as geeketiquette?

[cellio]

Yup -- that RSS feed is how I read it. But links from RSS feeds expire on LJ after a few weeks, so I linked to the original article instead.