Category: English

Yo! Sun has its first real customer for the innovative BlackBox project.
It’s the SLAC

where a white blackbox container

has been dropped.
There’s a cool time-lapse video here where you can see that the actual container transfer to the final location takes about 15 minutes, while the rest of the time in the movie (from 8:45 to 11:26AM) is spent taking pictures (to and together with the new toy) and giving interviews (around 10 AM).

Hope to know soon how these computing gardens perform in real life… I’ll take two, just to be sure. :)

[via Alessio && RoughType]

Yesterday I was given an invite for the LLOOGG service.
It’s like Google Analytics, but it’s realtime (and a little more geeky).
LLOOGG is run by a company based in Sicily[1] (Merzia, which focuses on services for the Web) and it’s the product of minds like antirez[2] – so it simply couldn’t suck.
It requires you to put the usual snippet of javascript inside the pages you plan to track access to: from that moment on, you can have really exhaustive statistics about the browsers which access your pages – in real time.
Right now, with only a couple of days of clicks inside its belly, it looks very very promising.
I plan using it for some time side by side with Analytics to compare the data, and then dig inside my access.logs to see what comes out.

I suggest you ask for an invite, and check it out: it’s well worth it.

As soon as I can, I plan modifying the Google Analyticator plugin for WordPress to create and (if anybody asks, release) a LLOOGG plugin for WordPress users. It should be very easy (read: I could really do it)

[1] italians are not “spaghetti, pizza, mandolino – arp-spoofing” people any more, hoorah!
[2] yes, the nmap/idle-scan guy