A quick post.
For the record, I did not buy an HD-DVD Player. I was tempted more than once, but I own a MiniDisc player, and I didn't want to go through that again.
Dark Horse Comics has put some pre-order information for my book up on their site. The cover art isn't quite final, but the title and concept are accurate. I'm very happy with it.
Two quick answers to questions.
1. I don't know exactly how many rss subscribers I have at the moment, but I can tell you that I have nearly 4,000 subscribers through Google Reader. I am, as I've said before, the luckiest man on Earth.
2. No, I don't expect my trainees to know what direction North is without a compass. I merely meant that the question I ask them that they get stuck on is equivalent to pointing at the North wall and asking "Why do we call this the North wall".
Dark Horse Comics has put some pre-order information for my book up on their site. The cover art isn't quite final, but the title and concept are accurate. I'm very happy with it.
Two quick answers to questions.
1. I don't know exactly how many rss subscribers I have at the moment, but I can tell you that I have nearly 4,000 subscribers through Google Reader. I am, as I've said before, the luckiest man on Earth.
2. No, I don't expect my trainees to know what direction North is without a compass. I merely meant that the question I ask them that they get stuck on is equivalent to pointing at the North wall and asking "Why do we call this the North wall".
posted by Scott Meyer at Wednesday, March 12, 2008
8 Comments:
Will they put it on amazon? I'm from Eastern Germany and there's no Dark Horse Bookstore Partner anywhere near here.
Just pre-ordered it!
Check Bloglines too! I'm an RSS subscriber through there. :)
I just searched amazon for "scott meyer", and this was the first hit:
Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Scott Meyers
Wow, talk about geek cred!
I prefer the regular logo, where the two by four board says "Knowledge" instead of help
I hear you... I also own a mini-disc player... one in my home... an in-dash mounted on the car... they are still around the house somewhere.. they still work.... The only think I need now is for some service/software to show up that could help me transfer these to MP3's directly (I dont want to go the analog cable route to my PC for my huge collection...). For the Record, I did not buy an HD-DVD player either... not even sure If I want to go the phisical media route with the pending battle between BlueRay media and HD-DVRs, HD-onDemand, HD-itunes, etc...
All this talk about people skipping BluRay and going straight to On-Demand (OD) is BS, in my humble opinion. OD is years and years away from having everything you might want available instantly. I have OD through Time Warner Cable and through NetFlix. They frequently don't have available what I want (I have 450+ movies in my NetFlix Queue and maybe 20 are available OD, for example). Sometimes you just want to own the entire ST:DS9 or Buffy or Battlestar Galactica series so you cant watch it when ever you want. Plus, as far as I know, OD doesn't have the "extras" that you get with DVD/BluRay and is probably years and years away from that capability. Are people just going to sit out for the next 5 years while BluRay drops in price to $250? I don't think so. As much as people hate buying something that is obsolete soon after, people still buy PCs and they will buy BluRay. True OD (anything you want, anytime you want) is just too far down the pike.
All this is IMHO, of course, and your mileage may vary.
If you have GNU/Linux, *BSD or Mac OS X, you can fetch a log file from your server and run this command line:
awk /subscriber/ {print $12,$14,$7}' your_log_file | sort -nr | uniq | cut -c 2- | tr ' ' '\t'
That should give you the stats for Google Reader stats as well as for similar feed fetchers.
Wordpress would give you regular and RSS stats, but I don't know about Blogger.
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