datter

This post would be a bit more complete if it also offered up some of those alternatives you mentioned.

Track time with the amount of time in brackets

* "[:30] finished the design" means I finished the design in 30 minutes
* [1:30] - the hour goes to the left of the :, the minutes to the right
* [design :5] - You can mix and match tags with the time. In this case, you added the tag 'design', and said it took 5 minutes.

Frihost is a better alternative. It's a full service *free* web host, which provides standard web hosting (php/chron/etc etc). Rather than placing the ads on user sites, the ads live on the Frihost community forums on which users have to take an active part. It's not a bad community, and taking part in the forum is a small price to pay for a full service hosting solution.

http://www.frihost.com/

again?

Count me in please.

Looking for Group and Lion's Pride Inn both look impressive, and possibly like something I'd want to read more of... but Dr. Disgraph is the only one on your list that made me smile.

The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf FTW. :)

The arrow keys... the do nothing!

I never turn my machine off, so this is a neat idea... of little practical use. For me anyway.

The site is apparently... dead.

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This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota

Please contact this site's webmaster.

Wait a few minutes and use your browser's "Back" button or click here to try again.

If you are the webmaster, your account may have gotten this error for one or more of the following reasons:

* Your account has used more than its share of the cpu in the past 60 second sliding window.
* Your account has too many concurrent processes running simultanously.
* Your account has consumed too much memory.
* Your site was recently very busy trying to run inefficient scripts.

The solution would be to optimize your applications to use less CPU.
Adding appropriate indeces to your SQL tables can often help reduce CPU.
Using static .html documents instead of painful .php scripts will practically eliminate CPU usage.

Reminds of of "big music"...

The music industry did not, and does not understand or accept the new paradigm... so they fight against MP3's instead of embracing the new direction. They mistakenly think THEY lead the market, instead of the truth which is they follow the market as set forth by the consumers. Big mistake on their part.

This nameless, bloggy web-guy (whoever he is) doesn't understand or embrace change. Sounds like he's stuck in one mode of ad revenue and refuses to bend or accomodate the market changing under his feet. So, like the music industry instead of moving with it and finding a new way to fit and generate revenue... he fights it, accomplishing nothing but proving he really, really just doesn't get it.

Sad on his part, but I suppose it's best if the little faceless guys sort this stuff out in advance so perhaps the larger web-presence people will learn from the mistakes of the little guy.

Good luck to this blog guy, whoever he is. Without a perspective shift, he's going to need it.

datter
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