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What happens are your workplace when the internet goes down? Has it ever been down long enough for you to wander the hallways or work in the offline world? Does it even affect your duties?

The new N810 by Nokia was announced this morning, the following is some of its features as well as a picture of its pull and slide qwerty keyboard. A much bigger phone, but with a screen this size and a faster processor and more ram this phone is definitely going to be on a few peoples wish list.

The United States Goverment has ordered an investigation into possible health concerns over the use of wireless networks and causing health issues within americans.

So it looks like Vista was also a problem for the Dutch, and now they want free versions of XP to replace the bug infested Vista.

Nice little story about how The Pirate Bay obtained an anti-piracy Organizations Domain Name IFPI.com

A great article on how to turn drupal into a Digg like clone without any programming. If you’ve every played with Drupal or are actively using it on your site, like mine. Take a look: http://ventureskills.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/want-to-create-a-site-like-digg-with-no-programming/

Linus provides 10 funny quotes, mostly developer/linux based funnies.

A nice little article about how Apples growth is affecting its customers, is Apple short changing all of its loyal customers, fans and newly won over customers by looking more for profit rather than customer satisfaction?

Over at the Ask Apache site there is an article about Google Analytics and how to speed up your page load. You can read it here: Speed Up Google Analytics with Urchin.js

Ever notice that sometimes your sites take a while to load all the way because google’s urchin.js file is taking forever? You may recognize this problem when you see something similar to this in your browsers status bar “Transferring data from google-analytics.com…” Time To Setup? 4 minutes I got tired of seeing that all the time and so I set up an automated cronjob that runs every 12 hours and downloads the latest version from google, and saves it to my website directory, then I reference /urchin.js instead of http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js.. and my site loads a lot faster!

If you have ever ran into a problem with trying to strace apache or other processes that spawn children, then this script will help you out greatly. This small perl script will grab all of the PID’s of the current process and its children and then run an strace command on all of them to provide strace output from all of apache. You can modify the strace line to your liking as well as the log names, by default it logs to a file based on date and time to the /tmp directory. Code included, click ‘Read More’.