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On the Irish blogger mailing list I asked for stats on which blogging software was being used within the Irish Bloggosphere. Well John has delivered

Some surprises/quirks in there. Interesting and helpful.

One question, is that an automatted process now ? Easy to update once a month or so?
Also one extra data point that would be helpful would be version. Be interesting to see how many folk are paying for Moveable Type or are still using the old free version.

Great work John, thanks.

Googles new web accelerator is making waves, and not in a good way.

The problem is that webaccelerator prefetchs URL in the context of your browser, so if your are logged in to your favorite web application, it goes and “clicks” all the links on the page, for example, links that might DELETE things!!

Now there are lots of smart folks out there in the Blogosphere saying I told you so and “you were warned” . Robert Sayre even suggests to google they should work around things people are doing to keep their applications from breaking!!

Well I think the last word should go to Leslie Michael Orchard (another blog for my reader I think )

So, like… uh… Did Google build their accelerator that way just to provide a dramatic example of why REST evangelists focus repeatedly on the fact that the HTTP GET method is specified as and should be implemented as idempotent?

Dramatic indeed.

Here are a few answers to some random questions that came up at dinner with friends…

All about Vitamin K , short answer, Vitamin K is used in the body to control blood clotting. A deficiency of this vitamin in newborn babies results in hemorrhagic disease.

Measure the speed of light using a microwave and a chocolate bar. I told you it could be done, here, are the details folks.

Things we didn’t know about MSG at the table:

Does msg natural occur in anything….

From wikipedia :
“MSG is found naturally in seaweed and fermented soy products, and especially yeast extracts. Smaller quantities are also present in tomatoes, mushrooms, and Parmesan cheese. ”

Extra Interesting fact : MSG was first discovered and patented by in 1908.

How is it treated by the tongue?

“MSG triggers the (recently identified) taste buds sensitive to umami, one of the five basic tastes (the word umami is a loanword from Japanese; is also sometimes referred to as “savoury” or “more-ish”). It is believed that “umami” taste buds respond specifically to glutamate in the same way that “sweet” ones respond to sugar.”

Links about MSG

http://www.truthinlabeling.org/ (its evil apparnetly)
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/msg.html ( the offical USA government spin)
More about taste buds : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_bud

Mahmoud, Age 13
Human Rights Watch: What’s happening here?
Mahmoud: These men in green are taking the women and the girls.
Human Rights Watch: What are they doing?
Mahmoud: They are forcing them to be wife.
Human Rights Watch: What’s happening here?
Mahmoud: The houses are on fire.
Human Rights Watch: What’s happening here?
Mahmoud: This is an Antonov. This is a helicopter. These here, at the bottom of the page, these are dead people.

Find out what really is happening in Darfur .

Then do something about it

Via Ethan