A great article on wired about the free web economy. Interesting quote: “Anything you can consistently convert to cash is a form of currency itself, and Google plays the role of central banker for these new economies.”
March 14, 2008 | Economics | No comments
Don’t ever leave a website that starts to get any kind of traffic on the joke that calls itself GoDaddy. As a registrar they’re not bad but their DNS tool is very broken. I won’t bore you with tales of my screaming match at a manager there at 2am when a simple A record IP […]
March 11, 2008 | Rants | 1 comment
I’ve been uncool for some time now. In 2000 when Java was really beginning to kick ass I grabbed a Java book and wrote some code. And I decided I was getting stuff done faster in Perl so I stuck with it. I felt like a dork who was playing with his bigwheels while the […]
March 11, 2008 | Code | No comments
If your’e looking for a great crime movie with an excellent script and brilliant actors at the top of their game, go rent “The Brave One”. There are so many great lines in this movie, but I think the D.H. Lawrence quote got me: “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic – and a […]
March 10, 2008 | Art | No comments
CNBC had a 1 hour segment this evening with a collection of Buffet interviews. My favorite quote: “On Wall St we get the innovators then the imitators and then the swarming incompetents.” Buffet is a master at distilling an entire thesis into a sentence.
March 9, 2008 | People I Admire | No comments
aaaah you say. Finally, after many a Google search finally I found someone who understands my pain. I know you’re in a rush and I can’t stand people who love the sound of their typing either, so here’s how you fix this little problem. If you have a brand new super fast server and a […]
March 9, 2008 | lighttpd | No comments
Whenever I double click on text in a terminal when ssh’ing to another box it either selects a single word or the whole line – it doesn’t select just the text I want it to select. Linux does, windows does, why the hell can’t OS X? When I select text in a terminal I have […]
March 7, 2008 | Why Apple rocks but .. not | No comments
I don’t feel so good. Last night I ate a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Phood in a single sitting. It’s basically every decadent thing they could come up with shoved into a 1 pint cardboard container. I think I made myself diabetic in an evening. I had good reason though. My cat dissapeared […]
March 7, 2008 | Startups | No comments
From the nginx docs under Known Problems: 3. Nginx may laugh at your Perl code and hit on your girlfriend.
March 6, 2008 | Code | No comments
Alec Hogg writes about Benjamin Zander’s session at Davos in Moneyweb, a South African publication. Lots to take away from this.
March 5, 2008 | Inspiration | No comments