Though LightTPD (or “Lighty”) is the darling lightweight webserver of 2005, Jef Poskanzer’s thttpd has been serving static content securely and wickedly fast since 1995 or so.

O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com recently posted a tutorial, “Lightweight Web Serving with thttpd”, which is worth a look if you run a high-traffic site or have underpowered server hardware. The article walks you through installing and configuring thttpd, setting up CGI and virtual host support, and using thttpd as a static content server behind a more full-featured server like Apache.

Via Rafe I learned of an astounding Javascript hack done by a MySpace user. Excerpts from the summary, allegedly written by the creator:

…anyone who viewed my profile who wasn’t already on my friends list would inadvertently add me as a friend. Without their permission.

8:35 am: You have 74 friends and 221 friend requests. Woah. I did not expect this much. I’m surprised it even worked. 200 people have been infected in 8 hours. That means I’ll have 600 new friends added every day. Woah.

After a little over three months I’ve crossed the hundred-post mark. Averaging around a post a day hasn’t been hard at all, and blogging is proving to be a fun way to return to regular writing. My thanks go out to everyone who has been reading (I’m sure someone has) and commenting. I do it all for you. OK, I do it mostly for me, but I do think of you sometimes.

It’s been a sore point among Macintosh users that almost all of Google’s desktop software is currently Windows only. A couple days ago I learned that Google had started a search for Macintosh developers. As of today, listings for Senior Macintosh Developer (8+ years experience) and Macintosh Developer (3+ years experience) are on Google Jobs.

Only Google can say what they’re up to, but note that Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, and Google Talk are all mentioned in the ads.

John"Daring Fireball" Gruber has a good list of observations about yesterday’s announcements from Apple. A few comments on his comments:

• The combination of what seems to be a smaller click-wheel with the wider screen “makes it look as though the width and height of the iPod have grown” – I agree. When I saw the first spy shots, I was sure we were in for a bigger, heavier iPod. Hopefully Apple will clean this up in the next revision.