Hvassing.com

Just for the fun of it, I’ll by trying out Google AdSense on the site for a limited period of time. If it’s a success I’ll keep it there, if it’s just a hassle and nothing good comes out of it - it’ll be gone like the wind in no time!

In the beginning it’ll be located on the left hand side of the site, just below the search-field. If anyone has any thoughts about how it works or if it doesn’t work at all - just let me know.

Not long ago, at work, we were painfully close to losing 2.5TB of data belonging to our users due to two faulty disks in the RAID. With two faulty disks in the array, you’ve basically lost everything and with that amount of data, the problem is not having a recent enough backup (which we did), [...]

A tiny improvement to Google IG, with huge impact on its usability — they’ve added a “Compose Mail” in the GMail-interface. I’m just a bit surprised that they haven’t done this a long time ago.

Realizing that I’m somewhat behind the o’mighty blogosphere on this one, but news nevertheless. I’ve long been a great fan of the Google IG service, which allows me to add RSS-feeds of my favorite sites and keep track of their new posts. I’m not a huge fan of RSS, as people doesn’t have to visit [...]

Google have a lot of useful tools that can make a whole lot of difference if used properly. Google Sitemap is one such tool. By pointing Google to the content of your site chances are that some of the content that their crawlers otherwise wouldn’t find is discovered. There are several other benefits from it as well, the lesson to learn is that listening to Google is key.

Google is moving forward with a speed rarely seen before. Their never-ending ability to conjure up successful web-services that no one even knew they needed is their strength. Is it all good?