Any of you guys happen to do direct advertising/sponsorship of your blogs/web sites? I'd be curious in your CPM (or flat monthly) rates if you care to share. ok so now I have seen it all. direct embedding of an image in a src tag? <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAA...." alt=""> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme it seems it is even documented wow and i've had my head in the sand, proposed in 1998? heh. 1st time I've seen it sent as a html email with an embedded image lol toddf I've seen sites do it with favicons even It's handy for distributing a single html file but not so useful when it comes to hosting/http, since the client is forced to fetch that data regardless of If-Changed-Since (or other caching) everyone having connection problems? anyone else having troubles connecting to their vps right now? you guys got mtrs? oh boy mtrs? confirming packet loss yah I'm getting massive packet loss back to normal now O_o v4 btw i thought arp was on like a crazy good network that was some insane packetloss internet is a crazy place shit happens ofc fwiw the other day i saw minor packet loss from arp going mzmia to nlayer i should seutp smokeping on my vm http://smokeping.asininetech.com/smokeping.cgi?target=IRC.scruffy graph confirms too :) wow that's a lot of packet loss is that a dsl connection? thats from my VPS in London oh there's quite a lot jitter for a vps hmm? well looking at other graphs for comparison jitter was higher than is common