How Todayamerican works

Google redirects to my blog, so I thought I would briefly explain how
the site works. The domain name is the same, you type in todayamerican.com
, you go to the mobile site on the iphone and you go to the desktop
site if you are on a computer. This redirection happens automatically.

I have changed the old home page on the desktop & put the new one in,
because I get more people relevant to tech news on the site. I am able
to serve better content to these users, so I changed this.

The idea is very simple - no ads for now, I have seen hit counts go
down when ads are added. I use the site myself & would hate to see
ads. You press the forward arrow to move forward.

If you login, then I make sure you rarely see content you have already
read. I know there was the duplication issue because some tech blogs
duplicate someone else's stories. I have reduced duplication from the
enty side. I tried to reduce duplication from the reader's end, but
because those queries are weird it takes a long time to execute. I am
working on a better fix as we speak. If the solution loads the server
then the site will be slow, so I have to have a fix which minimizes
the database load by not doing long running queries.

It is complicated & technical, but you must get it now - I am working
on it. I want my reader to be the best!!

Opera Unite & The Fountainhead

I have been hearing a lot about Opera Unite. First there was the hype,
and now there is the slamming. Many people are slamming it so
viciously in their blogs, with so much profanity and rage that it
reminds me of Ayn Rand's book "The Fountainhead", where Howard Roark
builds something amazing, but everyone blasts him in the reviews.

It is not clear why all these guys are enraged so much about unite. Is
it because they can't come up with anything like it?

One guy who has added comments is the co-founder of Milo.com. The idea
seems to be that if you cannot come up with an idea worth half a cent,
lambast the guy who does!

I don't hate Unite, I am a bit sad and a bit happy about it.

Opera Unity = Sparrkle

It's a bit sad, but inevitable I guess. Opera unity seems to have
taken the business plan of sparrkle.com & implemented it word by word.

It is sad, I could not get funding for this in the bay area, and
someone else has come out with exactly the same thing. They have the
money & the man power I guess.

Today American Mobile Site up now

I have been fixing issues for the past few days. Everything should be
smooth now.

iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak unavailable

http://www.todayamerican.com/todayamerica/Mobile/OutsidePage.aspx?url=http%3A//i.gizmodo.com/5284779/iphone-os-30-now-available-in-torrent-tested-it-works

Don't try to install this on a unlocked phone. It will lock it, and it
is very difficult to restore the phone to older version and unlock it
again.

Signficant Performance Update to HP XW4400 Workstation!

Just download and install the latest BIOS update from www.hp.com. This significantly improves the performance of the computer.

RadTreeView control is null in Javascript

If you have a RadTreeView control in a page, and in the footer javascript, you try to get it by "$find", it might return null. This is because it did not get time to initialize the tree object.

So, within a setTimeout, call another function after 200ms, and then inside that function, if the object is null, try calling "$find" again.

This worked for me.