The Blog of Jeff Layton / jeffl8n
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New Site Design
Mar 5th
Note: I wrote this last night about 1:00am and just realized at 7pm, 18 hours later, I never hit publish…
After a couple weeks/months, I’ve finally gotten around to creating a design for my site. Hopefully it’s pleasing to the eyes, but either way, twitter me to let me know what you think. I created the design originally for my main site, then ported it over to a wordpress template for my blog here. Actually, you might have already noticed that the “Home” link in the top goes to jeffl8n.com, and the blog link is to… well… here, my blog.
Now that I’ve finished the design, I hope to spend some more time on these other projects (almost all of them not listed on my website yet) I have been neglecting.
Measurement Lab Being Throttled?
Jan 29th
Comcast has been known before for filtering or throttling bandwidth, especially bit torrent traffic, so I thought this was an interesting coincedence.
Measurement Lab is “an open platform that researchers can use to deploy Internet measurement tools.” One of their first measurement tools is to “measure the speed of [your] connection, run diagnostics, and attempt to discern if [your] ISP is blocking or throttling particular applications.” It appears that the Measurement Lab website and several of the servers running these tools are getting bombarded with traffic, but I thought it was quite funny given Comcast’s net neutrality history when I first got the error…
