Some users can’t or just don’t scroll web pages. Here is a tool that will help you figure out what impatient or inexperienced users are missing.

http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

Yesterday, we got to the airport really early, which was good, so the line to check our bags was only half as long as the picture shows. The line moved pretty quickly after they started processing the luggage manually. I’m not sure what they did for people who didn’t have bording passes already. The power was out for about an hour. I wonder if they have a generator that was just giving them problems. I guess we won’t be recreating the movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles after all.

Of course, we will have to wait and see how big of an effect this has on the country’s prosperity.
http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/evaluating-ceibal

This is a pretty impressive demo.

http://280atlas.com/what.php

This is an interesting javascript library that will actually parse each chunk of a multipart/mixed mime response as it comes in. I’m not sure if it has HTTP Pipelining’s same weakness of returning the results in the same order as requests, but you could easily modify the ordering that the library accepts, since you don’t have to worry about http firewalls or load balancers trying to collate the requests and responses for you, because everything is in a single request and response. Of course, this means that multiple requests will hit a single app server, so you would have to roll your own load balancer if that’s something you need.

http://about.digg.com/blog/duistream-and-mxhr

Recently, when my mom was googling for my Amazon wishlist, she came across a book referencing me. I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about until I found the Google Books search result that shows a Java applet that I wrote back in 1998. I only ever wrote one other Java applet, which I did in Jython, and that made it much, much easier. I think Sun really squandered their early advantages over Flash and Javascript. Of course, they were probably too busy to care while making money hand over fist selling servers to run J2EE apps.

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