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Is Jakob Nielsen's UseIt column still the "de-facto" standard?

I just received my bi-weekly email from Jakob Nielsen that told me about his new usability column, over on Use It. Is it just me, or are his columns getting more and more irrelevant? I remember finding his site, a couple of years ago and reading every single column he published - and I have been doing so ever since. I bought the book. I almost went to a conference of his. I sent countless people to his site. But lateley I only gloss over his columns. To me they become less and less interesting and relevant: Either he’s trying to sell me a report or he talks about some esoteric applications (or both, as in the current column: Investor Relations Website Design (Read the column, buy the $248 121 page report). ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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Apache slow down solved?

It seems that something with my dynamic execution of cgi’s causes the slowdown on Apache. Now that the Blog is static, everything seems to move quite fast (except for the fact that it takes me ages to edit the pages - but hey - that’s ok, isn’t it?) Check out a slow apache server on: My old Blog done with PikiePikie (of course that link now is broken - hmmm) The link doesn’t work anymore? Though - it turns out that either Python or the Python Apache handler or god knows what else was the culprit… This site is now as fast as it can be ;-) ...

Jens-Christian Fischer