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Aug
25
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Here’s a clip my bro pointed me at from Mike Patton’s new project Peeping Tom. If you have a very wide range in musical tastes (from BeeGees to Tool) then you’re going to love this:
Aug
21
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The thing about running a widget business is that you serve as many web server requests as all your users websites, combined. And if one of your users get’s Dugg or Slashdotted, you get Slashdotted too.
After I launched FEEDJIT on Thursday (5 days ago) the traffic started picking up Friday and by Saturday morning my server was groaning under the strain. Some of the highest traffic blogs were Japanese (there are more Japanese bloggers than English) and by mid-morning the …
Aug
16
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I just launched FEEDJIT. It took me about 10.5 hours (4pm until 2:30am) from the first time my hand touched the keyboard until I fixed the last bug and went live. I got a question on the Seattle Tech Startup list about how I spent my 10.5 hours. So here’s a brief summary:
I drew a mockup in Fireworks. It started getting complicated with user registration and so on. So I basically binned it and just wrote the software, but the …
Aug
3
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Jake Brown fell 40 feet and landed so hard in the transition at the X-Games last night that his shoes flew off. Forward to the end of the vid and watch the slowmo version.
Brown spent Thursday night in a local hospital, where he was treated for a bleeding liver, two sprained wrists, a bruised lung, and whiplash to his back and neck. He didn’t break a single bone. Unbelievable.
Aug
3
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If you’re a bit of a sci-fi fan, a bit of a maritime adventure fan, like all things engineering, then I have just the book for you. The Ice Limit is one of the best paperbacks I’ve read for a very very long time.
Aug
2
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I’m busy decommissioning an old server I’ve had for almost a year. I’ve used it for dev and testing and installed a bunch of crap on it. It has never required a reboot and has been busily chugging away. Here’s it’s uptime:
11:20:46 up 333 days, 8:13, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.34, 1.21
The only reason it needed a reboot 333 days ago is because the datacenter it was hosted in was being migrated. It was up for about a year …
Jul
30
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Douglas MacArthur – “We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.”
Jul
24
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I just got back from the Naked Truth panel and party in Seattle. It was loads of fun. I met John Cook for the first time in the flesh – he’s interviewed me about 3 times and we’ve never actually met. Also met Michael Arrington briefly.
The panel was so-so. I think the general consensus is that we didn’t learn a hell of a lot that’s new, but it made a great excuse for the party afterward. There was some playful …
Jul
24
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Looks like my choice to use Wordpress.org on my own servers for my personal blog was a good one. Typepad has been down since 1:50pm. Unfortunately that means both Geojoey and Linebuzz corporate blogs are down.
Dear TypePad member,
The TypePad service is currently unavailable due to power issues at
our co-location facility. This means that the TypePad application and
your TypePad blog are not reachable at this time. This began at
approximately 1:50 pm Pacific Daylight Time today, Tuesday July 24
2007.
We are …
Jul
24
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UPDATE: This article generated over 5,000 page views in under 24 hours, so I’ve posted a follow-up interview with Tony Wright, RescueTime’s Founder & CEO.
I’m participating in a closed Beta of Rescuetime.com and installed the software on Sunday. Yesterday sat down at my desk for 10 hours and then hit the site. Here are the results:
All I can say is, I was floored that after 10 hours I’d used less than half my time effectively.
Rescuetime lets you tag apps, …