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Professional-Lurker blog was nominated for the Best designed/most beautiful edublog in the 2005 EduBlog Awards.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
Don't let fear convince you that you're too weak to have courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not the proof of cowardice.
McCain, John (2004, September). In Search of Courage: Finding the Courage Within You. FastCompany, 51-56.
In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are not concentrated in one sex over the other, nor in persons with certain accents or in certain races or in persons holding degrees from some universities over others. When we indulge ourselves in such irrational prejudices, we damage ourselves most of all and ultimately assure ourselves of failure in competition with those more open and less biased.
J. Irwin Miller, Chairman of the Board (1951-1977), Cummins Inc. From 1983 letter about diversity at the company.
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September 29, 2005
Missing hours
So I have a job to do, in between my regular job, I and my tech councilors get to try and figure out how to accommodate the growth of the blog in the most efficient way possible. If you have suggestions to minimize bandwidth usage without making major changes to the look or content of the site I am always happy to listen. Readers of this site collectively have far more knowledge on the subject than I do.
Things I have done in the last month:
- Blocked all crawlers from most of the site with the exception of the main page and the archives. Of course this only stops crawlers that actually look where they are allowed to go, the unethical ones will just go and so this will have no effect.
- Optimized photos before posting or use thumbnails in postings.
Things I'm thinking about doing (if I knew how):
- Tyeing my .htaccess file into a blacklisting service or my old MTBlacklist text file, to try to keep spammers out. At minimum I would like to block numerical urls that don't resolve.
- Zipping archives to make them smaller files.
- Further reducing the number of posts on the front page. We went from 15 days to 15 posts in the last upgrade. I've thought of reduing it to 10 but I wonder if that is too short.
Your input is welcome.
Posted by prolurkr at September 29, 2005 09:44 AM
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