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Thought for the day

I’m wearing a t-shirt today that I had made at Zazzle with a Lawrence quote on it. So I’ve been reading a bit of Lawrence’s writing and stumbled across this extract from Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation. It captures a sense of euphoria I’ve had all week long: For man, as for flower and […]

April 29, 2008 | Poetry | No comments

Angels

I was reminded again today of how incredibly important it is to team up with the right angels and how incredible the angels are that we teamed up with. One day when I’m not flying stealth I’ll write a book about this stuff. Until then you get the adventures of Ziggy my cat and other […]

April 28, 2008 | Startups | No comments

My cat likes the taste of rabbit

I’ve written about my orange tabby’s adventures before and here’s another…. It’s 11pm on the east shore of lake Sammamish. I’m coding upstairs and my wife is sewing downstairs. We hear the cat door flick open and then silence. Then Kerry shouts up – hey is Joey chewing a bone up there? Um, no? Oh, […]

April 16, 2008 | Ziggers | No comments

Something for Obama fans and for Clinton fans

If you’re an Obama fan, read this. If you’re a Clinton fan, read the rebuttal here.

April 14, 2008 | Politics | No comments

Putting food in our Fords…

Update: I noticed on my Feedjit that I got a bunch of visitors from CNN.com today. I think the blogs section below the story linked to this page at some point today. Maybe using corn to produce gas for our cars isn’t such a great idea. Check out CNN’s headline today. Personally I’m pro-nuclear power […]

April 14, 2008 | Startups | 2 comments

Puzzle

Got this via email today. Can you solve this puzzle? You are riding on a beautiful white horse. On your left side is a drop off. On your right side are several ostriches being chased by a lion. In front of you are four large gazelles that won’t get out of your way and you […]

April 10, 2008 | Randomness | 1 comment

Baidu hearts Obama

Chinese search engine Baidu.com has Obama on their home page today. Kerry (my wife, in case you’re new here) attended the second democratic caucuses as one of Obama’s delegates a few days ago in Issaquah. There were 36 Obama delegates to Clinton’s 12 – going on to the state caucuses. So WA is definitely Obamaland. […]

April 8, 2008 | Startups | 1 comment

Troubleshooting

It’s funny how when you’re troubleshooting a performance issue on your servers that suddenly made the load average spike to 14 (350% with four CPU cores) at 6:30am on a Sunday morning (yay!) all the stats look like garbage until you figure out what it is and then it’s so glaringly obvious that you spend […]

April 6, 2008 | Scaling | No comments

The problem with myspace…

I know this isn’t new but… I joined myspace about a year ago and added one friend because I wanted to check it out. I literally logged in once and never logged in again. It’s housecleaning day today on my gmail account and here’s what I came up with searching for “would like to be […]

April 2, 2008 | SocialSchmocial | 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.