Wednesday Words
To Go Where Your VisionPoints, a few inspiration points for you and your business.
Tread carefully when you enter my world, for you will forever change it. ‘Tis a responsibility not to be taken lightly.
—Ed Ketz, professor at Hawaii Community College
For you. 
While you’re working today, remember, you’re always changing the world.
Thanks for forever changing mine.
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
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17 September 2008, 8:37 am
I would LOVE to enter Perfessor Ed Ketz’s world.
He lives in Hawaii…!!!
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17 September 2008, 8:45 am
Friar,
Ooh, no more heat for me, thanks. He can keep Hawaii, but world-changing, that’s good stuff.
Glad you liked it. I always make good on my promises.
You may now return to your usual delightfully mocking self.
Regards,
Kelly
17 September 2008, 10:00 am
Okay, now that I’ve been given the green light to be mocking.
It’s obvious that Professor Ed Kratz is/was a Tortured Intellectual.
…anyone who uses the word ‘Tis automatically qualifies.
(Same as using the word “O”).
17 September 2008, 10:19 am
I love that quote Kelly. I won’t mock it. “O”
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17 September 2008, 11:01 am
If I had it my way, unless they’re in a poem, or if they’re being quoted, general use of the words ‘Tis and O should be BANNED OUTRIGHT.
Anyone caught violating this rule, shall be smacked on the head with a thesaurus, and be forced to wear the Scarlet Letters “T.I.” in public.
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17 September 2008, 11:25 am
Hmmm….Friar, Brett and I don’t really tread into your world. Isn’t it more like stomping?
17 September 2008, 12:01 pm
” ‘Tis often the most well-intentionned steps that leave the heaviest tracks.”
” Tread lightly, lest you disturb the slumber of complacency.”
“O, Vistor! Strange that your ideas may be, the door to discussion is always open.”
Professor F. Meigh
University of Efton-on-the Thames, UK.
17 September 2008, 2:21 pm
Friar,
I have been sitting on this quote forever, because of the “’tis.” That, and because I couldn’t dig up any more on the guy who said it. I love what he said, but geez, post-Charles Dickens, ’tis should have been outlawed.
Thank you for coming back in fine form and destroying my Wednesday Words. (F. Meigh!!! LOL!) It just wouldn’t be the same without you.
Wendi,
Seriously, I like it from a business and personal standpoint because that’s what we’re doing every minute, but how often do we stop to think of it that way? Like the time-travel conversation… go back in time and step on one twig, and the course of history could change.
Panther,
Nah. Keeps things lively. Sometimes, Friar even stops for a minute to add something really relevant to the conversation. Heck, sometimes he recommends others join in, too. Sort of.
That’s why I love all my readers. Everybody comes at things from their own angle, to mix it up here.
Until later,
Kelly
17 September 2008, 3:18 pm
“Each man creates his own heaven, his own hell.
Death has no master.”
It’s a sound sample from some horror movie, plopped right in the middle of the Entombed song “Sinners Bleed”. Really heavy Swedish death metal so I don’t expect anyone reading it will have heard it, but…
I’m not sure who said it or what movie it is from, but I always liked it. And it sort of makes sense, because if you look at Buddhist teachings, they say similar things. Seriously…
-Brett
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17 September 2008, 3:19 pm
@Kelly
Not to put down Perfessor Ketz, but IMHO, I think Perfessor Meigh’s quotes are at least as good!
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17 September 2008, 3:25 pm
@Brett
I don’t know how you get those quotes. Because when I watch those Viking-Rock videos you link me to, the only words I hear being spoken are ARGHHH-GHHHG-HARGHHHG-RRRHG.
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17 September 2008, 3:32 pm
Friar,
#1 this is because you are very good at being pseudo-philosophical. Watch out, someone might think you’re actually thinking these thinks!
#2 You took the words right out of my mouth. Arghhh-ghhhg, etc.
Brett,
No, really, that is a cool quote. just don’t make me listen to the source. Some things are better out of context.
Answer: Masque of Red Death, 1964. Yahoo! search to the rescue:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kmachine/movie_quotes.htm
Until later,
Kelly
17 September 2008, 7:18 pm
@Friar,
It takes a truly twisted mind to decipher the lyrics. Fortunately (?) I have such a mind.
@Kelly,
Neat site! And now I see, they didn’t quote it directly (probably for legal reasons) - and I also mixed up the songs - that quote is from the song “Living Dead”. There’s a quote from The Mummy (the *real* Mummy, with Karloff, in 1932) in “Sinners Bleed”. Hmm, gotta dust off the old Entombed albums tonight.
Masque looks like a neat movie. I’ll have to find it… Vincent Price, too cool…
Still I like Nosferatu. I tell you, for a movie with no sound and really crappy filming, that one just creeps the crap out of me. That movie Shadow of the Vampire didn’t help either (the story of that one is that the actor who played Nosferatu was *really* a vampire).
I do listen to some strange stuff, for sure. If it were more accessible, more people might enjoy it. But it is what it is, I guess…
^ ^
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-Brett
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17 September 2008, 8:57 pm
@Brett - caught the end of that movie — John Malkovich played the director, no? Yeah, both movies were creepy.
As for accessible music — I can’t comment on you with any authority, but in my experience, those who like underground music are less likely to listen if everyone else is. I still remember when REM broke through with “Out of Time”. I got into them just before that, listening to “Document” and all those albums. I remember the people who were right into them just hated “Losing My Religion” and called them sell-outs.
Ditto with Bare Naked Ladies (though admittedly their first indie tape was much better than the re-recorded Gordon…)
Anyway, what’s our feeling on underground and indie hitting the mainstream? Do you enjoy them because you knew them first, or do you leave them to the masses?
~Graham
17 September 2008, 10:12 pm
Brett,
Masque I’ve seen. I think the word “cheesy” applies, but it’s been a long, long time. Some bf got me to watch it, otherwise I’d never touch that kind of thing. I hate even slightly scary movies!
Ha, I didn’t notice that the lyric was from the wrong song. I cut and paste the lyric, hit search, and boom. The Internet is tailor made for research geeks like me.
I’ve seen Nosferatu, too, but through my fingers (hands over face the whole time). Another in that vein (silent but incredibly creepy) is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Really obscure but worth hunting for, at least in my dim memory of it.
At least when your kids start bringing home their own music there’s no way they can shock you, he he.
Graham,
That’s what I was thinking. If more folks liked it, Brett wouldn’t like it.
REM—with them since their 2nd album. I devoured everything they did in the 80s, and I like them since, but yeah, there’s nothing like that “I’ve got a secret” feeling. I can still enjoy them, because IMHO they’ve stayed pretty true to their original vision, but I don’t enjoy them in the same way.
U2 on the other hand—I was such a fan for their first few albums, then they quickly went all commercial, and I can’t stand anything since about The Joshua Tree. The masses can have ‘em.
I was going to try to relate this to the quote way up there, but I give up.
Tread carefully when you enter Wednesday Words, for you will forever change it. ‘Tis a responsibility hardly ever taken seriously.
Later,
Kelly
17 September 2008, 10:26 pm
Hey Kelly,
REM came to Thunder Bay a few years ago (you know you’re on the downside of your career when…) and I only recognized one song: “Losing My Religion”. To top it off, the mandolin mic was off, so it was crappy to boot. Come to think of it, they may have played “The One I Love” too, but mostly it was stuff from their newest albums, and I had no idea. Although I loved most of their stuff right up to “New Adventures in Hi-Fi”, I haven’t really listened to them since…
As for U2, I really liked the Achtung, Baby/Zooropa period. “Let’s go to the overground, get your head out of the mud baby…” PLUS, I was listening to Zoo Station on my way to (possibly) hook up with someone at the Zoo Station in Berlin, so that song always had a special meaning. Honestly, I still can’t get enough of “Vertigo” — the video still makes me choke when I see it (in a good way).
Best “underground” band for me is the Tragically Hip. World famous in Canada (to steal a phrase from someone — Randy Bachman, perhaps?) but unknown in most of the world. Curiously, world travellers seemed to like them. I heard them playing in a campground at Victoria Falls once, and in a coffeehouse in Dahab. Very surrealistic!
~Graham
P.S. LOL on your new quote. Wednesday Words may be taken more seriously than you think, just not in the way that you may think…
17 September 2008, 11:01 pm
Sometimes cheese is a prerequisite for horror films, so I’ll still try and find it
(You want to see a pretty good horror / comedy if you can call it that, check out Bubba Ho-Tep with Bruce Campbell - the Evil Dead / Army of Darkness / Spiderman doorman at the theater guy… Elvis in a nursing home that’s haunted by an Egyptian mummy. Gotta love it…)
About the underground thing, I think for me it is a different angle. I’m not so concerned if an artist is really popular or not, or rises to popularity, but maybe for me it might be what they do to get there.
I can give two examples - the band I mentioned, for a start - Entombed. I love their first two albums. Number three, so-so. Everything after that, I don’t like - why? Because they changed their sound.
A bigger name most people would know is Metallica. I listened to them since their first album. To me they were cool until - you guessed it - they changed their sound. They started wearing cowboy hats and stuff like that. Cut off their hair. Went into rehab, etc.
Here’s a good way of looking at it - you go see a Metallica show, and the majority of the people there won’t know anything from Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets. They changed too much.
Go see Iron Maiden or Motorhead or AC/DC. Everyone there will know the new stuff and the old stuff, because they didn’t change.
Hmm… food for thought, though.
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17 September 2008, 11:39 pm
Graham,
I played “Fables of the Reconstruction” (REM’s 3rd) until I wore the grooves out. The thing would skip if you breathed near it. Never saw them back then, I think it may have been to early in their career to get them near me. I saw them in the 90s once and loved them. Back then they were still playing the early stuff. I’ve heard their new album is killer, but I haven’t got it yet. It’s on the list….
I’ve heard OF the Tragically Hip, but I don’t know whether I’ve heard them. World famous in Canada—that’s brilliant!
Brett,
You make new Metallica sound a bit like the Village People, lol. Master of Puppets is the only one I know even glancingly, thank another bf.
It’s the changes that make me turn away, too, but the underground aspect of indie bands—or movies, or authors, or restaurants, come to think of it—also has a sneaky appeal to me. What I call being a “secret source.” Then it’s more fun to spread the word.
Ooh, look, I almost made this about Customer Experience!
Later…
18 September 2008, 7:33 am
Kelly,
They can’t dance so I’m not sure they could be the Village People (wait, could the Village People really dance?)
For the last few albums though I’ve considered them “easy listening”… YMMV of course. Not that I’m all “argh raaaar blargh bleah” though, I like a lot of stuff that’s totally unlike the Viking stuff.
Check out Jean Michel Jarre some time. I love his music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Michel_Jarre
-Brett
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18 September 2008, 8:18 am
@Brett - Yeah, I went to a banger school, so Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets was a lunchtime staple. Right up there with Women and Children First and Pyromania.
‘Course the hard core listened to Voivoid — never could get into them… Then came MegaDeath and a couple of other semi-hard core. Turned bands like Van Halen and Def Leppard into “hard rock” (funny to think now they were considered metal at the time). Judas Priest was about as metal as I ever got, and even then just the “popular” songs.
@Kelly - I haven’t liked much of the Hip since about 1995 — they got all soft and mellow. Still great live though, in fact one of the best live bands I have ever seen. The lead singer Gord Downey literally goes off on tangents and rants in the middle of certain songs, and they just riff for a while — awesome.
My favourite song is “New Orleans is Sinking” from about 1988. You can see the video here at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd-x9H6lfMs
Do yourself a favour though and don’t actually watch the video, just listen to the song. The video does nothing to enhance it!
You can hear one of his most famous rants, the “Killer Whale Tank” version at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wugpd795PI&feature=related
Perhaps you have to really be “into” the Hip to enjoy it though…
~Graham
18 September 2008, 8:32 am
@Graham,
A big LOL from me because Voivod’s “War and Pain” is in my car’s CD player right now… that was a pretty harsh album in 1984. Nice guys too (I met them at a show in Hamilton in the 90’s).
Priest was and still is cool.
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18 September 2008, 8:46 am
@Brett - I can’t even tell you when I heard them, but I think it must have been before that — probably 1981 - 1983ish? All I remember are those power 1/64th notes. That and the fact that they were from Montreal (I think).
You didn’t hear them at Gliders, did you? That would have been early 90s — I think it’s a family restaurant now. Just this side of the dip before Dundas. Used to work there way back when it tried to be a restaurant. It quickly switched back to a hard rock bar…
~Graham
18 September 2008, 9:24 am
@Graham,
Yes, they are based in Montreal now (I think they were from Jonquiere originally).
Gliders! No, they were not there, it was a club downtown under Sundried Tomatoes (can’t remember the name anymore…) - I remember Gliders, we used to go there for wings and beer.
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18 September 2008, 9:34 am
@Brett — Yep, that was me. 10 cent wings, even though they cost the restaurant 11 cents to by (never mind labour). The thought of course was that *everybody* would buy beer, but we mostly got Mac students buying 200 wings and three pictures of water… Not a big surprise it turned into a rock bar again.
Never heard of Sundried Tomatoes — after my time! But I looked it up — that’s near where Ruffages used to be, perhaps? With Yuk Yuk’s across the street, and Grapes on the corner of Main?
~Graham
18 September 2008, 9:38 am
@Graham,
Too bad more people weren’t like us then… water, what’s that? It was a wonder we were able to walk back to Mac…
I think cheapo students killed Olive Garden too (”why yes, I’ll have the all you can eat spaghetti, and a pitcher of water…”)
Yes, you found it - I can’t for the life of me remember what the name of the place was in the basement, though.
Ah, Hamilton… I do miss it.
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18 September 2008, 11:35 am
@Brett - yeah, water was pretty much for plants, wasn’t it? (Not my plants — who the hell needs plants?!)
As for the Olive Garden, actually its demise was quite the opposite. My wife opened the Dundas location — I think she was gone before it closed, but she got the skinny… It was owned by General Mills in Canada (not sure about the States) and they invested tons of money into it for one reason: a tax write-off. Then in started to actually make money, putting them in a tight position. So of course they closed all the stores in Canada and wrote it all off one last time…
Not sure that I miss Hammy-town, but those couple of years I lived there were good times. I’m actually going to be there next week for a few days, so I’ll have to check out the old haunts (or at least the places that replaced them…) I just found an old friend of mine through Facebook who I worked with at Chaps Westdale. Haven’t talked to her in 15 years, though I think we’ll hook up at Perry’s for a drink next weekend. Hopefully it will still be warm enough for the patio…
~Graham
18 September 2008, 11:46 am
@Graham,
Yeah, I’d read something like that actually. Too bad when things like that happen - it was a good place for us to hang out.
Perry’s - my old hangout when I lived at 644 Main West (The Beverly Hills Apartments - perhaps in 1962 it was!)
Where the heck are you now anyway? (I should know that, I think.)
-Brett
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18 September 2008, 12:56 pm
@Brett and Graham
I’m remembering that whole fast-food alley near Mac.
I used to love the All-you-can-Eat salad and bread at Olive Garden. Great place, for cheapo-O students to eat.
And the Ginos’ two for one pizza. You’d get two slices for a couple of bucks.
Remember the Tally-Ho? Good Old Gulp and Puke.
They had great greasy steak sandwitches. Eat one of those for lunch, and you don’t have to eat for the rest of the day (Just go back to class, and listen to your arteries harden).
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18 September 2008, 1:01 pm
@Friar - Are you serious? You are a braver man than I. We used to go to Tally-Ho after the bars, say around 1:30 or so. Took a special cab ride just to get there (actually, come to think of it, it was the early 90s so we just drove there — how am I still alive?)
I went there once sober during the daytime, and literally could not finish the roast beef.
Never went to Gino’s though — always the Pizza Pizza next to Chaps. You only got one slice, but it was huge.
~Graham
18 September 2008, 1:14 pm
@Friar & Graham,
It’s a real West Ham reunion here today isn’t it (hey Kelly, how’s this for O/T?) - I lived on Sanders Blvd. for 3 years, and then on Ewen Rd. for 1 before I moved to the Beverly Bronx… T-Ho’s fries did make the old arteries scream, but they were tasty (especially after many pints) - I did eat there a fair bit though, but never the beef - they had a ham & swiss that was actually pretty good.
Gino’s… my wife always asks me why I eat my pizza on a plate with a knife and fork. Too many years of Gino’s - you try to pick up a slice, and every single freaking bit of topping slides off the flimsy crust onto the floor…
-Brett
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18 September 2008, 1:23 pm
@Brett — sorry, missed your previous question — I’m in Thunder Bay now. I was born here, but my wife is from Dundas originally, which is part of the reason why we lived in Hamilton so many years ago. We were still West Ham, but not Westdale — one year near the corner of Herkimer and Bay, and one year on Hess near Robinson(?). Anyway, just a trip and a stumble from Zaks and Hess Village.
I do remember the panzarotti in that little shop in the mall at the corner of Queen and Main though, sort of across from Tiffany’s. Those were great.
I hear the downtown has really gone downhill now though. Jackson Square seems to be just a shell, from what I understand. Not that it was ever really vibrant and lively (besides the record stores and the book store on King…) but it wasn’t too bad either.
Oh well…
~Graham
18 September 2008, 1:47 pm
@Graham,
No problemo - that’s right, I knew I should have known… the area code gave it away. Yes, I know all of your old stomping grounds well. My wife and I lived in the Arkledun Apartments at the base of the James access for a year.
The downtown went through a bad time, but it seems to be on the upswing again. Jackson Square is still like that though - more of a tax write-off for someone than anything else…
-Brett
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18 September 2008, 2:42 pm
*Waves hand dismissively, then, in her best Brooklynese*
That’s fine, darlin’. Tawk amongst y’selves.
Just makes me hanker for Canadian living, that’s all. Which I’m already hankering for. Also makes me wonder what kind of search hits I’ll be getting from all this….
18 September 2008, 2:51 pm
@Kelly
Oh….did YOU want to say anything?
(Hope you don’t mind, while we hijack your blog, eh?)>
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18 September 2008, 2:54 pm
LOL - hey, this is the best Canadian blog I’ve ever come across! (Although the CommentLuv doesn’t seem to luv me — heck, I’d even settle for CommentLust…)
~Graham
18 September 2008, 3:47 pm
@Kelly
It’s already too cool to wear shorts outside most of the time. And the other night, I had to turn the furnace on.
Do you STILL want to be hankerin’ for Canada?
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18 September 2008, 5:41 pm
Friar,
YES. Come fry down in DE for a while and you’ll hanker, too. Besides which, I live in wool and hardly ever wear shorts. I like a nice crackling fire and a snap in the air. I’m a sad, misplaced northerner.
No, hijacking is cool. Blogs are made for collaboration. I love it.
Graham,
I get that all the time (Canadian blog).
CommentLuv has been acting up here, and elsewhere, too, in the last month or so. I’ve been having CommentLuv problems all over the place lately. One theory I read was that Andy Bailey, the author, has the plugin set up currently for a 3-second load timeout. You can check yours at:
http://internetsupervision.com/scripts/urlcheck/check.aspx?checkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maximumcustomerexperience.com%2F
(Ugly address. Type your domain in the box—scroll a bit—and hit Check URL.)
This is true, but it doesn’t explain why I have the problem on some sites (Men With Pens, for instance) a lot more often than most others… almost all the time there, much less anywhere else. Very odd.
Big CommentLuv news: he’ll soon have a new version that will knock your socks off. Read about it here:
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/shiny-new-beta-ajaxcommentluv-a-weekend-away/
Seems that like tomorrow, it’s always a day away. By the 25th, he says now. Make sure you register your site at the new CommentLuv.com .
Later,
Kelly
18 September 2008, 5:45 pm
Kelly,
You would truly be welcome then up here. Friar & I haven’t had a fire for a while, but Samhain is coming soon and I’ll be carving the little pumpkins into lanterns again this year… gotta scare away the kids, you know. (And when I say kids, I mean teenagers…)
Wishing for a clear night… beer, fire, living and dead together
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18 September 2008, 9:43 pm
It is amazing how the quote posts here inspire the most comments! :)Did you guys even work at all?
Brett: AH. Now I know where that conversation we had tied in, with Masque and Nosferatu! I love those old black and whites, and I LOVE Vincent Price!
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18 September 2008, 11:36 pm
Kelly, what a wonderful quote! It is such a simple but profound statement. Whenever we enter someone else’s space for a moment or for a time we change the space we inhabit..for good or bad. I will be mindful of that as I go about my day. Thanks!
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19 September 2008, 7:12 am
Steph,
Clearly, the Widget Factory gives too many breaks. I have a conference call this afternoon that should take care of this.
Karen,
Thanks. It takes nerves of steel to post an actual serious comment once Canada has invaded.
I really appreciate it!
Regards,
Kelly
19 September 2008, 8:33 am
@Kelly - lol - that’s quite the South Parkian statement…!
~Graham
P.S. I liked the quote too. Just doing my part to prove your point…
20 September 2008, 10:22 am
Graham: AHAHAHAHA!!
That is suddenly scarily accurate.
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20 September 2008, 10:31 am
Graham,
How did I miss that? Brilliant!
Is there a tune? Can you do a VODcast?
LOL LOL LOL LOL…
20 September 2008, 12:00 pm
Hi again Kelly & Co.
I just thought I’d come by and help clarify a few things about commentluv and the way it handles timeouts.
If your last blog post appears on some blogs but not on others then it is more than likely that it’s the ping distance between the two servers that is causing the problem. Because commentluv does all the to-ing and fro-ing after the comment has been submitted it has to have a low timeout or else the comment might take too long to process, especially as most regular blogs are hosted on shared hosting. You would be surprised by how many people share your server if you’re on a shared hosting package (which is most packages under 50$ per month)
Another reason and it’s partly my faul is that the plugin sends the url to my server and then that contacts the url, reads it, gets the feed address, reads the feed, extracts the last post and sends it back to the hosting blog which then in turn, puts it on the end of the comment and saves it to the database.
all this happens between clicking submit and the comment being saved in the host blog database, a process which should normally fit within 3-5 seconds. I tried to put all types of fancy things in to speed up the process, namely trying default feed locations for the blog so my server doesn’t have to read the page and can go straight to the feed but if it couldn’t find it in the first place it looked, it would double the execution time.
A solution was to use a caching system and I switched it on for a while but my server gets over 100,000 requests for last blog posts every day, even more now! and everyone of them would have meant saving an entire feed for each different blog url that commented. A feed of 10 items can sometimes be as much as 400kb (x100,000 = 400MB of space used up each day)
I have been working very hard on solutions to the normal gripes with it and I’m happy to say that I have something working and working well. Now, with the commentluv.com site, you can register your url and once verified, you can specify the feed address of your site (or autofind it) and cache age. When you comment on blogs using the latest version (it’s labelled beta release 11), my server will be able to contact your feed directly and if you comment within your cache age time, it will use the one stored instead. Doing this has reduced the time from 3-5 seconds to literally half a second.
If your site is offline or there is a network interruption between my server and yours, it will send back the last feed it found.
Even better, it does it while you type your comment so as long as you have javscript enabled on your browser (97% of the people who visit my site do) then you wont even notice the process. You’ll even see if it has found your last blog post or not before you press submit and if you’re verified, you get to choose between the last 10 posts instead of the usual 1
Soon I will add some code to allow verified users to increase their timeout for the fetch routine and even add something so you can specify the link to be passed back even if it’s on another site.
The new version will be released to the codex soon (it should work right out of the box on this blog Kelly). Thanks for listening and thanks for sharing the luv
Andy Bailey
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20 September 2008, 12:20 pm
Andy,
Thanks, guy. I knew you’d come through. Looking forward to the new version and of course I will let folks know how it goes here!
He he, it pays to be a plugin’s number one fangirl from before the author’s completely famous.
Regards,
Kelly
20 September 2008, 12:28 pm
@Andy - Well there you go — mystery solved! I’m glad to see that I was partially right in my logic about the pathways (though, ultimately, mostly wrong — time obviously plays a huge fact with all the pings).
And please don’t get me wrong. I would be the last person to gripe about a free app/service. I was sold on CommentLuv before I even installed it on my blog, and I think it is one of the best WP apps out there. Yes, I do feel un-Luved when it doesn’t pick up my feed, but like anything, the kinks get worked out eventually. Well worth the wait — thanks for such a great app!
~Graham
20 September 2008, 12:39 pm
@Kelly - Wow, I thought with the deafening silence following the “Blame Canada” comment, I had made some sort of fox paws…
You can hear the tune — and the original lyrics I mangled for my own selfish motives — here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi4CRZQEcGg&feature=related
BTW, earlier you asked what kind of searches would land people to this post. I found one this morning. Try Googling:
jackson square thunder bay tally-ho brett ruffages
…and be prepared for the deluge.
~Graham
20 September 2008, 12:42 pm
@Steph — oops, I guess the silence wasn’t total — I read your comment via email, and thought you were referring to a different topic!
Yes, I’ll take my part of the blame, but except for two other guys, the rest of Canada had very little to do with it… lol
~Graham
20 September 2008, 12:55 pm
Graham,
The un-Luvved feeling gets you down, doesn’t it? Andy needs a new “therapy” section on his blog for those moments, LOL.
LOL again at the search. I was glad to see I was in the #1 spot. Tight competition and all.
I blame the water up there. Surely the genetics of Canadians can’t be to blame.
Okay, that’s as much good cheer as I can use up in a day. Must go work on a Saturday, ick. No more cheer for me.
Right after I check out that link…
Later,
Kelly
20 September 2008, 12:59 pm
ROFLOL!
That’s the first South Park bit I’ve willingly watched. Very, very funny.
20 September 2008, 1:00 pm
@Graham,
That search string - too funny…
It must be the water, or more precisely, the Folgers
gotta blame the Factory somehow!
Brett Legree’s last blog post…viking fridays - naked, i was a nobody.
26 September 2008, 11:29 am
I wish more people would take this quote to heart. It doesn’t matter how briefly you are in someone’s life, just being there has changed it and not always for the better.
Jenny’s last blog post…Don’t Laugh At…
26 September 2008, 2:16 pm
Jenny,
Isn’t that the truth. What a waste, to take the opportunity to touch someone’s day and use it to make that day worse. In the end it does as much harm to the fool who doesn’t tread lightly as to the person they bring harm to, but they’ll never know what they missed.
Thanks for saying it that way.
Regards,
Kelly