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de-construct’s music taste

Friday, June 27th, 2008

We’re quite mainstream really.

  1. The Beatles
  2. Various Artists
  3. Red Hot Chili Peppers
  4. Massive Attack
  5. Jay-Z
  6. Groove Armada
  7. Air
  8. The Killers
  9. David Bowie
  10. Zero 7

See more at our last.fm account

piwik

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Occasionally I remember how much of a geek i am, and worry myself. This is one of those times, normal people don’t/shouldn’t get so excited about web analytics tools. However, i’m not normal, so http://piwik.org/ has made me sit up and say ‘oooh’. I’ve long wished i could do something more with the data *inside* google analytics, and piwik seems to solve that problem, not to mention using open source and non-prop software. I’d worry a little about constant hits to a db, and its scalability (as i’ve seen with slim’s implementation of mint) - but its certainly worth a punt on a smaller site, and the API is worth looking at. Watch this tiny space.