Live Web Stats

With a bit of javascript voodoo, MySQL magic and php trickery, you can find out, in real time, who's visiting your website, where they came from and where they're going. Here's a demo page of what I'm talking about.

This is still in beta, but if you're interested in installing Live Web Stats on your website, find out more here.

Tags: statistics, webmaster, seo

Price Cut Review

Today sees the launch of PriceCutReview.com, the new incarnation of Half Price Bargains, which was here on Nimisis as a kind of beta for the last couple of months.

Thanks for all the feedback and fantastic support! Much has been improved, particularly with the searching functionality, so hopefully finding a deal on Amazon will become that much easier!

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Learn a foreign language

Podcasts now exist which aim to help you learn a foreign language. Podcasting has been around for a while now and it's something that has been popular in countries all over the world. Here's a page with a useful list of language learning podcasts. Best of all they're free!

Extra Mile Algo Standard

I've invented my own little standard for folk who put source code for algorithms on the web. It's called the Extra Mile Algo Standard (EMAS for short), the reason being that it requires the publisher to put a tiny bit more effort into how they present their work. It should be worth it though!

More details are here, together with an example. All comments are very welcome.

Tags: algorithm, programming, code, software

Unhappy Windies

Going up to Lords on Sunday for day 4 versus the West Indies at Lord's (after the small matter of a wedding tomorrow). I'm hoping I won't see anything like this famous moment in cricket history, though it probably reflects quite accurately the current mood in the West Indian dressing room.

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Eat your garden snails

Having posted the video of them in action yesterday, I though I'd mention that I saw a programme recently where Gordon Ramsey explained that the snails in your garden are just as good to eat as escargot you'd get in a posh restaurant. Here's how to prepare them -

Before you can eat garden snails you have to get rid of their toxins. For the first two days, leave the snails in a container without any food, washing them regularly with clean water. On day three, give them a carrot and leave them for a couple of days until you see orange droppings. Finally, wash them again and place them in the fridge in a sealed container which sends them into a deep sleep. They are then ready to be cooked!

Those crazy snails

If we could talk to snails, we'd probably find out that they're actually adrenalin junkies. They're always playing chicken on the pavement with the passers by, and judging by this YouTube vid (made with Flix), they're forever messing around with each other like hyper-active monkeys, only at a slower pace.

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Tags: pet, animal, snail, Flix

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Bee Movie

Here's a very clever trailer for the upcoming animated feature Bee Movie from Dreamworks. Frankly, I think anything that Jerry Seinfeld's in is funny by default.

By the way, with all the never-ending repeats of Friends on at the moment, are any other Seinfeld fans noticing how many ideas they stole?! Please add any observations in the comments section. Off the top of my head I can think of the "breath-taking" (a.k.a. ugly) babies and the neighbours that wear few or no clothes...

Related: Bee Movie, Seinfeld

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