We all know most products in our home will be connected to the internet. It’s only a matter of time. Surprisingly a scale is one of the first products commercially available and not the smart refrigerator that automatically creates your shopping list.
This scale is WiFi enabled and automatically registers weight, fat and BMI calculation. For more information visit withings.com
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oscarazzie!
Sandra Bullock wins the Razzie for worst actress in ‘All About Steve’
Sandra Bullock wins the Oscar for best actress in ‘The Blind Side’
Sandra Bullock Says Her Best Actress Oscar Will Go Right Next To Her Razzie For Worst Actress
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat
In case life is more than a dream to you, you can visit Abu Dhabi Yacht Show or contact WHY Yachts
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An eye for details
The gowalla.com homepage was nicely redesigned recently and even the source code is crafted carefully. Take a look at the gowalla ASCII Art logo.
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Just got faster…
People visiting a (cached) page of this blog, can experience up to 493% improvement. Only change so far was installing and activating the WP Super Cache plugin. This should enable this blog to get back into the “fast lane” below 1,5 seconds.
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This blog is too slow…
Compared to other pages on this server, the time required for database look-ups and the images used, this WordPress blog is respectively slow. The 2.28 seconds required to return the homepage illustrated above is not even a worst case scenario (sometimes it takes more than 4 seconds to load). In the coming weeks we will further look into this and try to improve.
According to Google Webmaster tools there are already some improvements (but these measurements are only estimates with low accuracy because of the limited data points).
There are a lot of resources available on-line:
- 38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog
- 36 New WordPress Tips, Tricks, Tutorials & Hacks
- WordPress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours
- …
Many suggestions are related to reducing the number of php-functions (making the site more static), database look-ups, HTTP & DNS requests and of course cache-ing. As for now it is not possible to isolate all factors, this will only be an experimental journey.
All your feedback is welcome, feel free to register and provide your feedback and or suggestions.
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Your not in control, you are the controller
Xbox Natal was announced by Microsoft in june 2009, and should be available as of Holiday season 2010. Will this become the Wii-killer? TIME:Microsoft Whacks the Wii: A First Look
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When I see an elephant fly
Hard to imagine that seeing an Elephant fly actually could get you into college (Tufts Now Accepts YouTube Videos as Part of College Application)
As a reference the original dumbo version from Disney
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Can somebody make the sun shine?
"Belgian winter olympics"
When searching for “Belgian winter olympics” google returns a quick summary: 0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze,… Thumbs up for Karen Persyn and the Belgian Bobsleigh team in order to change this.
