Bits & Pieces

Posted by stephen on Wednesday, 05th October, 2005 @ 14:09

I've got lots to blog about today, and I've been indecisive about the best way to do it. Should I make one big long post and risk you being bored and not reading the whole thing? Or should I make a few shorter posts, but then you might miss the earlier ones. I think I'm going to go with the latter approach and hope no one misses anything they find interesting. That's giving myself way too much credit for writing interesting things, I know.

First off, I was having a poke around my stats today and found to interesting to know what people were searching for when they stumbled across my site. So far this month it's looking like this:

I found my response to this quite interesting. I feel a little bit guilty that whoever has done these searches will have only found references in my blog to me talking about playing with these things. I feel like I should actually write up some of my experiences so that these people will actually find something useful here!

To that end, I've started to populates the documents section with a few items. I've not had time to actually write everything up, so there are just a few useful links in some of the articles. Today I'm writing up fully my guide to DVB Streaming with VLS, you'll find it completed a little later on hopefully.

Anyway, my search string quest led me to see how Google's index of my site is doing. And there I spotted the home page is currently 101k of text! So I've just reduced the post count that appears on the homepage from 20 to 10. Hopefully it'll load a little quicker for you now. The archives will always be there, so nothing is lost.

It's annoying me that your comments aren't appearing in context to the posts you're replying to. Hopefully that'll be sorted when I upgrade to the latest Plone and Quills versions. So I'm going to quickly acknowledge Australia's Number 1 Steve Newey, that I'm far to geeky to stick todo lists to my fridge and thanks to Dave Nash for his sagely advice regarding my PowerBook keyboard that meant I (mostly) fixed it and decided not to send it away for a week's holiday with Apple's Hardware Support people.

I think that'll do for this post, later I want to talk about streaming from an MPEG encoder card, moving to Plone 2.1, moving around my living room to get access to the aerial in my loft and my experience of the BBC Internet Media Player (someone else's first impressions and screenshots are here).