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Otis Taylor – Blues God

I watched Shooter last night. Besides a few badly done slow-motion-macho-manly-walking scenes, it’s a pretty good flick. The titles at the end had this awesome blues song that I had to Google. It’s called ‘Nasty Letter’ by Otis Taylor. The man has an interesting history. He left music in the 70’s to become an antique […]

August 26, 2007 | Music | No comments

FEEDJIT New version released

I’ve released a new version of FEEDJIT with the following improvements: A real-time traffic feed updated every second on the home page We’ve upgraded to a 64 bit platform that is handling a lot of traffic. Watch the real-time feed to see some of the traffic we process. However, we are currently only at 2% […]

August 25, 2007 | FEEDJIT | 1 comment

Calling all Faith No More fans…

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:

August 25, 2007 | Startups | No comments

"Man vs Wild" vs Les Stroud's Survivorman

Les Stroud Rocks. There’s no question about it. Survivorman is one of the best shows ever made. Les Stroud really went into the wild with his own camera gear and filmed himself for a week without any food or water – repeatedly. The reason it didn’t make it big is because it wasn’t fake enough. […]

August 24, 2007 | Startups | 1 comment

Scaling from 0 to 40 hits per second in 3 days

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 […]

August 21, 2007 | Startups | 3 comments

FEEDJIT notice to bloggers

I posted this a few minutes ago on FEEDJIT. Reposting here: Sunday, August 19, 6pm PST: A message to our webmasters: Due to massive demand for FEEDJIT widgets and some extremely high traffic blogs using our service, we’ve had to delay the statistics reported by the map widget and the traffic widget by 1 minute. […]

August 19, 2007 | FEEDJIT | No comments

Get a real-time map widget showing where in the World your blog visitors are

Bobby from Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster came up with an idea for another FEEDJIT widget after we launched the first one on Thursday. He suggested a map showing where your users are that’s updated in real-time. That was the day before yesterday, so I launched it today. Spaghetti Monster is also our first […]

August 18, 2007 | FEEDJIT | No comments

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

One of the bloggers using FEEDJIT is The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. If you don’t know what it’s about, read this. I just became a huge fan.

August 16, 2007 | Fun | 1 comment

How to create and launch a startup in 10.5 hours

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 […]

August 16, 2007 | Startups | 12 comments

Live arrival/departure info for your blog

I started work on this at 4pm and it’s now 2am. It’s called FEEDJIT and it’s a little experiment. If you like it go ahead and install it. A few minutes after I post this it should be in the sidebar of this blog. Mark.

August 16, 2007 | Code | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.