You’re probably reaching Youtube saturation this week, but some of the best coverage I’ve seen of the whole thing has been on the Utube Blog which seems to be picking up every major news story and trimming the fluff, which usually leaves a good sentence or two. I’ve subscribed there and I’m just skipping most blog posts I see about it. π
Windows Tip
Something was listening on Port 80 and preventing my local webserver from working on my Windows XP laptop. Here’s how I tracked it down: Hit Windows Key + R, which brings up the Run dialog, then type “cmd” and press enter. You’ll be on a command line.
Type netstat -a -o -n
and it’ll bring up a network list, I looked for one with 0.0.0.0:80 as the local address and noted down the PID of 2600. To find out what PID 2600 was (hopefully not a trojan) I typed tasklist /FI "PID eq 2600"
which means show me a tasklist, and filter (/FI) where the PID (process ID) is equal to 2600. This told me that it was Skype.exe that was running something on port 80 locally.
Finally I killed it using taskkill /PID 2600
and Skype was gone and I was able to start up my web server locally and do a little bit of offline coding. Windows actually has a pretty handy command line once you learn your way around it, it’s just the syntax is so inelegant to me after spending all day on Linux terminals. A final tip, you can type /?
after most Windows commands to get the equivilent of a man page for that command.
Now for why Skype was listening or port 80 on localhost and serving blank pages… Ihave no idea.
Finding fresh inspiration
Finding fresh inspiration. (Quick reminder: I’m not the Matt on 37signals, I just really enjoy his writing and find myself in violent agreement with most of his entries.)
Oxo-moron
Why does Oxo Goodgrips stuff come in the standard awful impossible-to-open plastic packaging armor. It hurts the brand. That’s what happens when you don’t pay attention to detail.
Microsoft CodeCamp
I’m still in Vienna, but this Saturday morning I’ll be at Silicon Valley CodeCamp speaking on How to say no. My Mom would be so proud. Extra: my keynote from Blogtalk is online at Google video. You may or may not be able to tell, but I was fighting keeping my eyes open (it was 5 AM for me). Next time I speak overseas I’m going to factor in an extra day ahead of time to adjust my sleep fully.
Cardinal Blogging
Robert Accettura wrote in about this story about a Boston Cardinal starting a Vatican blog. Here’s the blog. As a Catholic, I find this trend toward transparency pretty fascinating. How long before the Pope has a blog?
Geek Business Myths
Gallery: 10-3-2006
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Blogtalk Presentation
If you’re interested, the slides from my Blogtalk talk are online. The conference has a great program today that I’m looking forward to. I was hoping to get some Vienna pictures today, but right now there is the heaviest fog I’ve seen in my life. (Vienna is like the San Francisco of Europe.) Perhaps it will clear as the morning goes on.
Gallery: 10-2-2006
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Good Morning Vienna
I’m in Vienna through Thursday for the Blogtalk Reloaded conference. If you’re a WordPress user please come up and introduce yourself, I have stickers. π
AIM Light
Wikipedia Spam
Sometimes I’m amazed at how much manual labor the Wikipedia uses. For example, how long can this type of spam protection go on before it becomes overwhelming?
Gallery: 10-1-2006
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FOWA Presentation
I’ve had quite a few people request my presentation from the Future of Web Apps summit. I’m not sure why, since my slides were pretty minimal and (I hope) the meat was in the talk itself, but if you want them anyway here they are as a 7.5mb PDF.
Bloglines Update
I’m a few days late on this, but I think the new Bloglines updates are really slick, they’re subtle but they really improve the usability of the product. Bloglines is my favority aggregator, online or offline, and I admire the restraint they have. It would be easy for them to add every possible feature, instead they keep things simple and, since January, fast. Simplicity is far harder than complexity. Especially in a big organization.
Trickle Theory
Trickle Theory. Long, but worth it.
Crazyegging
I was crazyegging for a few days, here are the results: WordPress.org home page, WordPress.org support, WordPress.com forums, and for fun, the Photo Matt homepage.
New WP JP book
Looks like there is a new Japanese WordPress book out, cool! I hope it says good things. π BTW, you can buy the WordPress 2 Visual Quickstart guide in most Apple stores. I must admit it was surreal to run into WordPress in an Apple store.