Month: May 2006

websitesasgraphs

On By westiIn General1 Comment

This is a meme that is really interesting. Generating a graph of your website based on the tags used in the content. It is quite interesting to see the differences between a simple page containing very little markup like the front page for my domain as shown below compared to the amount of markup found in this blog.

www.ftwr.co.uk website graphblog.ftwr.co.uk website graph

Go to http://www.aharef.info/2006/05/websites_as_graphs.htm to read more about the graphs or visit the graph generator here. Then post your graph on your blog or on flickr taged as websitesasgraphs

Stealing content for profit.

On By westiIn Rants, WordPress4 Comments

Reviewing my referrer logs again after the recent hotlinking issues I noticed another new referrer cropping up planetwordpress.com. Taking a look at the site in question it seems to be a WordPress install aggregating the content from a lot of WordPress blogs including most of those pulled into the official and unofficial WordPress planets (planet.wordpress.org and planetwordpress.planetozh.com respectively).

The new planetwordpress.com site seems to have the sole purpose of generating money from adsense clicks based on other content which I’m sure goes against the licence I have my content under (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0) and as such I have contacted Google to complain about the sites participation in the adsense program. Searching Google for mentions of planetwordpress.com it seems like I am not the only person to notice there content being stolen.

Music to commute by

On By westiIn Music

I have got so used to my short commute to work over the past few years that I had forgotten how important it is to select the right music when your commute is a long drive. Over the past few days I have made a number of trips to visit a customer site and tried to select the right music to keep me going on the long journey each way. From the few CDs that I have listened too over the last few days the following seem to have served me best:


Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre
A tranquil and relaxing classic electronic album. It has a wonderful relaxing effect after a stressful day.


The Oncoming Storm by Unearth
A modern heavy metal epic – really wakes you up in the morning.


Musicality by Salako
This is a wonderful album on a sunny day. It is melodic, cheerful and always enjoyable.

What is your favourite Music to commute by ?