Bumper stickers give people a chance to express their personality. So, what happens when the car owner is a dedicated computer geek (like us Pingdom-ites)?

This is what happens.

There is no place like home

The most famous IP address of them all, good old localhost.

Photo by Simon Law.

Computer geek overload

So much going on here. Stickers about LAN parties, Intel, Red Hat Linux, the GEEKCHK license plate, and the slightly unsettling “I read your email” sticker. We’re guessing this one is a sysadmin.

Photo by Heather Masterson.

Microsoft irony

At least, we think this is irony.

Photo by Edward Virtually.

The truck device

Whoever the owner is, he/she is most certainly a *nix geek.

Photo by Kevin Inman.

True Linux dedication – Tux for president!

What, not voting for Torvalds? Awww…

Photo by Travis Bigrigg.

Driver fond of PHP

Subtle statement from a PHP Web programmer perhaps?

Photo by Hansco.

Ouch

That’s it, we’re heading for Facebook…

Photo by Beatrice Murch.

Somebody cares A LOT about fonts

The tiny URL there actually leads to a whole website about the Comic Sans font.

Photo by Al Baxter.

Geek overload, again

A little bit of everything here, with a certain focus on games it would seem.

Photo by QuietDelusions.

404 error, sticker not found

Ah, yes, a good old 404 page, only in real life.

Found at Cathode Tan.

Political statement, geek style

Sometimes HTML can say a lot in very little space.

Photo by Jessie Heaven Lotz.

Apple overdose by Mac addict

Someone showing an abundance (and then some) of Apple love.

Photo by Eric Rice.

Firefox dedication

It’s our preferred Web browser here at Pingdom, and clearly this person agrees.

Photo by Devin Lussier.

Chaser of wireless networks

War driving is the practice of driving around scanning for wireless networks.

Photo by Iulus.

Blogger not happy about criticism

Anyone in the mood of actually calling 1-888-STFU to see what happens?

Photo by Scott Beale at Laughing Squid.

You may recall that we had a post about geeky vanity license plates a while ago. Now all we need is a car with a geeky license plate AND a cool geeky bumper sticker. That would be perfection! (Actually, one car above managed this feat.)

We are sure to have missed some really cool examples of cars with geeky bumper stickers, so if you know of any, please put a link in the comments.

Google’s App Engine suffered from increased data access latency and errors yesterday, including problems serving applications. According to TechCrunch, the problems lasted for approximately six hours.

From the App Engine status page:

On July 2nd, all applications experienced increased error rate and latency with read and write Datastore and memcache operations, as well as some serving errors. Datastore access and serving have been fully restored as of 12:25 PM PDT.

What happened yesterday exposed a couple of interesting weaknesses for App Engine.

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We have exciting news to share. As you may have noticed, we made some changes to the Pingdom website yesterday, and the main thing we added was a new account type that many of you are going to love: Pingdom Free.

Now, for the first time ever, you can use Pingdom for free. We’re not talking about a free trial, but a completely free account that you can use for as long as you like, no strings attached.

In other words, you are getting a professional uptime monitoring service for free. With the Pingdom service, you’ll be the first to know when your site goes down.

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If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that we love everything geeky, and we have often put together themed galleries that appeal to tech geeks like ourselves.

Here is a collection of some of the geekiest galleries that have come and gone on this blog.

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Wordpress.com, the popular blogging service from Automattic, has some interesting growth statistics posted on its website. Among other things, there is a graph showing how many new blogs are created on the service each day.

Based on the graphs that Automattic provides us with, it’s actually not that difficult to estimate how much Wordpress.com will grow in 2009. Which, of course, was a temptation we couldn’t resist!

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Operating systems on supercomputers used to be custom-made affairs, but this has changed. These days, Linux has become a popular choice for supercomputers. But how popular? You may be surprised.

Top500.org maintains a list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. A new list was published yesterday (it happens twice a year), so we took the opportunity to go through the list and find out what OS the top 20 supercomputers are using.

It took some work, but the results are interesting.

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