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Monthly Archives: October 2007

California Fire Satellite Map

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

I found this image on the awesome http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/ that’s getting a lot of traffic today and is posting a constant stream of fire updates, so be sure to subscribe to his feed if you’re following the fires.
Originally from the MODIS Terra polar orbit Satellite (click the image for the source). The fire appears to have [...]

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Server Downtime == Police Baricades and Angry World Series Fans

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Paciolan is managing ticket sales for the Colorado Rockies. Their servers were hit with over 1500 requests per second and it took down not only the Rockies ticket sales infrastructure, but all Paciolans other customers too.
They claim to have been hit by a DDoS attack, but that’s something that’s hard to prove or disprove when [...]

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Wikipedia, Vulcans, Suss-Mahn and cerebral entropy

Monday, October 22, 2007

In case you were looking for it, here’s a list of fictional martial arts courtesy of wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_martial_arts
How did I arrive there? I was researching Vulcans.
There’s a martial art called Suss-Mahn used by T’Pol in one of the enterprise episodes (which I just watched for $1.99 courtesy of the awesome Unbox) and it’s named after producer [...]

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More press…

Monday, October 22, 2007

I got a few emails from folks in Texas this morning. Looks like John Cook’s article about rapid startups made it into Statesman.com.

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South Africa are the new Rugby world champs!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

It was a tougher game that I expected – in fact it was a bit of a nail biter. But we won and Bryan Habana has been named player of the year by the Rugby Board.

It was cool hanging out with other South Africans at St Andrews pub in Green Lake watching the [...]

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Is Google.com down for anyone else?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

…or is it just me? Seems to have gone down for a few minutes at a time around 11pm to midnight for the last few evenings. It’s not tied to browser or workstation, but may be tied to our public IP address. All other websites work including news.google.com and blogsearch.google.com – just www.google.com seems to [...]

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South African Freedom of the Press

Friday, October 19, 2007

From Jonathan Shapiro’s Zapiro daily cartoon at the Mail & Guardian in South Africa:

This is what he’s referring to.

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Rugby World Cup tomorrow – South Africa vs England

Friday, October 19, 2007

Got this a few minutes ago from my Dad in South Africa:

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Panama Esmeralda

Friday, October 19, 2007

I picked up a bag of Panama Esmeralda coffee at Peets yesterday. It’s expensive, but this morning I made a cup in my french press using my usual method and it’s the best cup of coffee I’ve ever tasted. Usually I don’t buy into the whole ‘berry notes with a hint of whatever’ analysis. But [...]

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Friday rocks!!

Friday, October 19, 2007

…especially when you’ve been quoted on the front page of a major newspaper. (The Seattle PI)
Congrats to Brian Dorsey and his team who built and launched Tagmindr in 6 hours. Brian and I have chatted via email several times this week and we still haven’t met. Hopefully this week at Seattle Tech [...]

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