Woopra
I heard just heard about another web analytics program today called Woopra. I have to be honest and say that my first reaction is that I’m quite happy with Google’s Analytics. However, after watching this video, I can’t wait to try it for my sites. Looks like fun.
Termites
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Conspiracy?
Pink Floyd released the “Take in Back” music video in 1994. I worked long hours on one shot in the video for two weeks, laying it off to tape only minutes before our producer had to board a red-eye flight to Florida for the editing session the next morning.
12 years later I received this email with this image and the following message:
Excel Dates Incompatible from PC to Mac?
I discovered an amazing “bug” in excel tonight. I needed to create a copy of part of a spreadsheet into a new sheet. See if you can spot the difference between the original on the left and the new spreadsheet on the right:

You’ll notice that the dates are off by exactly 4 years and 1 day after a simple cut-and-paste into a fresh spreadsheet. It took a little while to figure out why this was happening.
Force an email through
Every once in a while, emails get stuck in my webserver’s mail queue behind a backlog of spam. Here are a few useful commands from this article to push the legit mails that are hanging out in /var/spool/mqueue/:






