The Daily Bits

As some of you may have noticed I ran a little experiment yesterday. Basically what I did was disabled the blog and set up a hit counter for 24 hours to see how many people come to shane.rsbandb.com directly. About 490 people came to the page in 24 hours. Now my reasoning…

Over the past month or so (since late November-ish) I have been having problems finding new content, flashy fridays, and the like. I could write at nauseum about programming ideas such as just why exactly if you think your data distribution might be close to sorted it is better to use merge sort rather than quick sort. I come across lots of links, videos, and pictures. A tumblelog would be more suited to this, however for some reason using Tumblr or this blog for it doesn’t seem right. The only reason I wouldn’t use Tumblr is because it doesn’t allow me to have my content on this server which is important to me.

Another aspect is RuneWire. Before I used this blog for Runescape postings. A good chunk of those are on RuneWire now. I havn’t made any decisions yet but finding something to post about in full length (like this post) is getting harder. Thus pardon the language but it’s becoming a pain in the ass to update.

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This one is about 24 hours late but it’s a rather interesting game. It reminds me of playing marbles when I was younger. Basically you start out with a set of balls and you have to use your balls to knock the other players off the board. It’s quite addicting and easy to get the hang of. you can play it here.

I also have half the mind to take this blog, archive the posts, and start fresh with a nice tumblelog. I really can’t think of anything to post about, if I do I end up being too lazy ot post it -.-… Anyways enjoy!

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Here are some predictions for 2008. It’s not exactly a huge list but it’s enough to get started. They are tech based for the most part so here we go:

1. DRM will die. With 3 of 4 major music labels selling music without DRM on Amazon it’s only a matter of time.
2. In concert with Amazon selling DRM free music, iTunes will lose some marketshare. They won’t slip to second but they will lose some.
3. Microsoft somehow, someway, will be slapped with another anti-trust lawsuit.
4. We will start to see smallish web 2.0 companies being acquired by large companies in order to compete with one another. Similar to what happened when Google bought DoubleClick (Microsoft bought some unknown advertising company)
5. Firefox’s marketshare will continue to increase.

There are some quick predictions for 2008. We’ll revisit this post next year

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PS: Also take a look at the 2007 Google Zeitgeist.