thekeywordgeek

I was contorting with a tape measure and typing them in, so my apologies I can't. :)

I like it! It seems to have a problem with half inches for me though and generates an error message. Latest Firefox/Ubuntu.

A big thank you for enquiring on my behalf!

A 503 would still require a GAE instance to be running so wouldn't necessarily deal with my problem.

I have seen "noindex nofollow" kill a site stone dead in the past so I am very wary indeed of using it. In my experience once you've noindexed a page it is nigh-on impossible to get the engine to index it again.

My content is autogenerated, though I hope it has enough value to be considered useful. It's time-series data of word frequencies in politics, so for example you might use it to see how one candidate is doing relative to another in an election campaign.

I'd be concerned as to adverse effects on my indexing. But it wouldn't fix my problem as it would still be a request that would require a GAE instance to handle it.

(edit) Yes, the bot is still hitting the GAE site atm even though it's returning a quota error.

Absolutely, even I can't say I'm deserving of a free lunch.

Really big :)

Its source is the English language, so if there's a word or phrase that gets used, it has a result. Corpus linguistics is fun like that.

Absolutely, It's only coincidence that Google are both the host and the spider. I really would appreciate the ability to throttle it though.

See my reply to jacquesm above. Very wary of blocking, as sometimes persuading the engine you've unblocked it afterwards is nigh-on impossible.

Google doesn't respect crawl-delay, sadly. They rely on the Webmaster Tools setting, which is unavailable to me as I've described.

I am a little concerned about doing that though. Having seen sites killed stone dead by people blocking stuff by mistake in robots.txt and the engines then never looking at them again I'm very wary indeed of blocking stuff I intend later to unblock.

Indeed it is, and using the Spectranet board. The Pi simply provided synchronisation, each Spectrum had the whole piece in memory as BASIC code.

We had a bit of a discussion about how it might have been done back in the day using 1 bit input ports and a Spectrum doling out sync pulses.

Edit: Though the Spectranet's auto-loading of the code made things far easier than it would have been with loading 12 Spectrums from tape!

The original Sinclair ZX Spectrum manual featured a listing to play a few bars of Mahler's First, with the reader asked to play the whole piece as an exercise. Here's Matt Westcott completing that exercise with the help of a few friends and a table covered in Spectrums. In the process of making this possible it is also believed that the record was broken for the number of networked Spectrums in one place.

In their dreams.

My lexicographer and lawyer colleagues have faced this one many times. As I understand it once a trademark enters common usage as a verb it is safe for inclusion in the dictionary, as a noun it isn't.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Hoover#m_en_gb03861... http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/google http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/photoshop