I installed the latest version of Apache last night and enabled a new module that wasn’t previously available under Apache 1.3; mod_deflate. This gives the following speed and size improvements over generally every page hosted here.

By adding the following code to httpd.conf once mod_deflate is compiled into apache you too can achieve similar results.

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
DeflateFilterNote ratio
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary

I laugh at emails like this.

Ticket Number: 5647600545188
Ref: UK/9420X2/68, Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Attention: Lucky Winner,
We are happy to announce that you are one of our Lucky Four(4)
Star Prize Winner in this months edition of the UK National Lottery
held on 29th of September 2007 in England.
This makes you a proud Winner of 850,000 Great British Pounds.
To claim your prize Contact the claim office with the underlisted
informations as soon as possible:
Name,Address,Country,Age,Sex,Occupation,Phone, Fax.
Best Regards,
Carlton Adams

Nice one Carlton Adams, but I don’t believe your 850,000 Great British pounds are real.
Your “claim office”, a hotmail email address, is hardly convincing either.

Hamster hilarity

High power

I don’t get the BBC weather report.
This is what the weather is supposed to be today.

Outside it sounds like it’s blowing a gale and is raining hard too.
What’s up with that BBC?