More that 350.000 web sites (DreamHost) back online after almost 8 hours outage

Due to broken power cable the whole Dreamhost network was not reachable for more than 10 hours today. It just came back online. Not all the servers went down, but as DreamHost’s core routers and upstream providers are in that data center, there was no network to over 350,000 web sites during that time…

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Happy Valentine

Happy Valentine from the Duvet-Dayz team to all of you…

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Hello 2007

Hello and welcome back to Duvet-Dayz.com in 2007.We are currently planning to introduce a set of new features for this site within the next 14 days:

Cleaning up the design of the site and some overdue repair of features that are not fully working in the moment.
New features like Microformats and geo-coding of posts - we [...]

Map yourself on the Internet

The web site map-o-net has created a nice tool to show your or other IP addresses on a fractal chart. Great idea to visualize unused addresses as green grass…

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Beautiful Holidays from Duvet-Dayz.com

Best wishes and safe, happy and healthy holidays. And a great 2007!
Duvet-Dayz.com wants to thank all our readers for their support and the feedback. Without your great help we could not carry on creating this web log.

Thank you all.

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Gone with the wind

It seems that we are getting popular in a sense we DON’T LIKE -
This week we stopped for the first time more than 1000 spam messages in less than a few hours. The ones which are the most annoying are the 2 page long links messages to whatever nonsense you could not imagine. If [...]

Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 10-December-2006)

(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games
(10-12-2006) Winter: Best Extreme Skiing Videos on YouTube
(15-12-2006) Fun: Moving Dog USB Drive
(07-12-2006) Search Engines: Pageranks and the Incredible Lightness Of Being
(01-12-2006) World AIDS Day: Speeches, Speeches, Speeches
(23-11-2006) Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
(28-11-2006) Video: Modern Day Robin Hood
(06-11-2006) Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
(08-12-2006) World Economic Forum announces Technology Pioneers 2007
(26-10-2006) Life: Bandages with a kick (2)

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Search Engines: Pageranks and the Incredible Lightness Of Being

Yahoo has just released its “Top searches of 2006″ list, leaving us with the impression that people are using it only to find information on Brittney, Shakira or Paris Hilton…
…Recently the “American Mathematical Society” has featured an article with an in-depth explanation of the type of mathematical operations behind Google’s search engine pagerank. The story with the title…
…Encourage by the article we had a look how our so far most popular story (Top 10 time waster games) is ranked with Google. It turned out that Duvet-Dayz.com has a pagerank of 3 (out of more then 1 million pages)…

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Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 12-November-2006)

Most popular posts (week 12-November - 19-November-2006):(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games
(16-11-2006) UCLA: Get Tasered for using the Computer Lab
(15-11-2006) Dance of the Flight Attendant
(15-11-2006) The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web
(06-11-2006) Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
(09-11-2006) Video: FedEx Ant Hill
(08-11-2006) Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually [...]

Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 05-November-2006)

Most popular posts (week 05-November - 12-November-2006):
(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games(09-11-2006) Travel: Very Light Jets are getting ready for delivery(09-11-2006) China: How to advertise for health(04-11-2006) Life: Sushi that melts in your mouth(02-11-2006) Gadget: Silk screened CDRs and DVDs (06-11-2006) Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? (24-10-2006) Firefox 2: Microsoft [...]