This is an experiment, but maybe this will work better.

Let me google that for you. 4b3yrms

Looks like since I added an entry page last March the bounce rate went up by 20%. Not unexpected, but it bothers me a little that more than half of the people couldn't figure out how to proceed from there. So I tweaked it a little and hopefully it will be slightly easier, and maybe the bounce rate will even drop below 50%.

The end of an era:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:58:57 GMT
P3p: policyref="http://www.sun.com/p3p/Sun_P3P_Policy.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR 
ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa CONi TELi OUR  SAMi PUBi IND PHY ONL PUR COM NAV INT DE
M CNT STA POL PRE GOV"
Location: http://www.oracle.com
Content-length: 0
Connection: close

GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old.

Back in the days I had a GeoCities account too, but that was mostly neglected because of my Tripod sites. One of them is still working too, too bad I didn't have one of those visitor counters that were so popular in that era.

Shortly after graduating from HTML and Javascript, I moved on to this language that's used to make applets. I don't really remember why, but probably because books about Java are right next to books about Javascript. That's when I heard of this company called "Sun Microsystems", and thought that they were one of the coolest companies on Earth.

Fast forward couple years, when I was at Cal it's full of Sun machines. Those Ultrasparcs were slow, the userland was strange and difficult to get used to. Over time the department that I worked for started to switch away from Sparcs and Solaris, and their coolness factor faded.

Nevertheless, I was quite sad to hear that Sun was brought by Oracle. I can't quite find an obituary that's like the one for GeoCities, but I did find this picture taken by Kevin Krejci:

Sun Set at Oracle

In other news, Hong Kong soccer announcer 林尚義 passed away yesterday.

May everyone R.I.P.!

Finally did some web work this weekend. It's the first major update since around 2007 I think, and probably the first time I've had a separate landing page. One that will no doubt drive up the bounce rate :-)