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Dec
16
Posted by mark.
“My machine overnight could process my in-box, analyze which ones were probably the most important, but it could go a step further,” he said. “It could interpret some of them, it could look at whether I’ve ever corresponded with these people, it could determine the semantic context, it could draft three possible replies. And when I came in in the morning, it would say, hey, I looked at these messages, these are the ones you probably care about, you probably …
Oct
23
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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 you have corporate firewalls and AOL firewalls sending many requests from a single IP – it looks just like a DDoS attack but it actually …
Oct
1
Posted by mark.
I take my dev server and my workstation everywhere with me in a single small backpack.
My “dev server” is an intel macbook that dual-boots Linux and OSX. My workstation is a windows laptop. Most of my work is done with the macbook booted into Linux and my windows laptop running an SSH client that I use to write all my code on the linux/macbook. I do this because most of my users run Windows and I can write code in …
Aug
14
Posted by mark.
I can’t log in to either of my hosted gmail accounts. Anyone else?
UPDATE: I contacted gmail support and apparently they occasionally lock accounts due to suspicious activity. I think I had two different hosted gmail accounts open in tabs in the same browser. Very suspicious.
Their suggestion: contact them. The response: occasionally we lock accounts – see our help page for detail. The help page suggests you contact them.
So I’m stuck in a loop and it’s pissing me off because I …
Jul
30
Posted by mark.
I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted.
With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates.
Our love of Facebook is duly recanted.
We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.
Jul
26
Posted by mark.
A quick article about how to record a remote interview and how to fix the audio levels after the interview.
I got a few questions about the equipment I used to record the podcast interview with Tony yesterday. I recorded it remotely using Skype – Tony was in West Seattle and I’m in Sammamish. We were both wearing headsets which I recommend because even though Skype is good at cutting out feedback from a PC speaker, some noise does get through …
Jul
25
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I logged onto my blog this morning and it wouldn’t load. I tried to ping the server and it was still up. Then I tried ssh’ing into the server and it connected. I hit reload again in my browser and starting mumbling WTF.
Then I ran ‘uptime’ on the server and got something like this:
09:52:40 up 325 days, 6:45, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.28, 0.27
That’s a little high, so I checked how many apache processes there were …
Jul
22
Posted by mark.
This little guy quietly spun this masterpiece while I was snoozing on the couch below him last night – and he got me thinking about The Web and what the word really means these days. Perhaps I’ve been in the entrepreneurial game for too long now, but it’s beginning to mean:
Design
User interfaces
SEO
SEM
Traffic
Competitive analysis
Bounce rates,
Return rates,
Content optimization
etc…etc…
…when it really means one thing:
COMMUNICATION
Whether it’s buyers communicating with sellers or mining the worlds collective knowledge via search or blog trackbacks or inline …
Jul
20
Posted by mark.
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is one of my favorite data sources – it’s also one of my favorite names for any government agency. The agency provides a database of world-wide features which I use as a data source for Geojoey.com’s landmark search feature (top right of the screen).
These guys are selling the equivalent data for over $300.
For an up to date ZIP code database, you should contact USPS.gov and order it from them – which may take a while …
Jul
17
Posted by mark.
I’ll often find myself chatting about choice of technology with fellow entrepreneurs and invariably it’s assumed the new web app is going to be developed in Rails.
I don’t know enough about Rails to judge it’s worth. I do know that you can develop applications in Rails very quickly and that it scales complexity better than Perl. Rails may have problems scaling performance. I also know that you can’t hire a Rails developer in Seattle for love or money.
So here are …