CSS dotted borders in IE

Solving the IE bug me and Sergio talked about before, using only CSS.



weblogs.com slowness

Dave Winer talks about the speed boost he managed to give Manilla just by running weblogs.com pings in another thread.

We already had noticed this bottleneck with ZOQ and plans have been made to deal with it. We were thinking about having a message queue of ping requests and only one separate thread doing all the pings (one at a time). This way we will never have to worry about having hundreds of processes pinging at the same time.

The funny thing about this is that weblogs.com features this phrase: “Welcome to the all-new fast Weblogs.Com!”. Of course this an old sentence from the time weblogs.com stopped polling weblogs.



Son of Napster

Son of Napster: A crazy idea based on collective ownership of all available cds.