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Just a little note to make people aware. I noticed that my blog was taking an inordinately long period of time to load this morning so I started doing some troubleshooting. The culprit turned out to be the MyBlogBlog widget. I have moved it down to the footer to allow the rest of the page to load faster until I can figure out a better solution.

I recently made a big misstep in my understanding around trackbacks and pingbacks. According to Wikipedia

A Trackback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Movable Type and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of Linkback.

Crystal clear, or at least I thought it was. Well anyway, I know that if I put a link in the body of my post then that site will get sent a trackback automatically when I publish the post. Whether or not their software accepts the trackback or how it handles it really isn’t something I concern myself with, I have a hard enough time getting my stuff straight to worry about what other people are doing.

A friend recently introduced me to TestFreaks.Com and I decided to pop over and check it out. First off they have a killer domain name. Next the site isn’t so bad itself. Actually the site is currently in Alpha version and while the site is not fully live, it certainly looks like it will be interesting once they get it up and running. They have a wide list of things they are going to be reviewing. It looks to be just about anything electronic from camcorders to lcd tv reviews.

They have a nice clean layout which is surprising considering how many text links are on the front page. Also the site loads really fast, probably due to the lack of graphics and supporting eyecandy. Plus since they are in Alpha testing, they offer a Development Forum that users or future users can join to contribute what they can to the site’s development. It is hard to say if the site will live up to its billing but I am bookmarking it just in case and plan to keep checking back for updates. If you get a chance to pop over to TestFreaks.Com I would love it if you could drop a comment here with your opinions.

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