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California Fire Satellite Map

I found this image on the awesome http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/ that’s getting a lot of traffic today and is posting a constant stream of fire updates, so be sure to subscribe to his feed if you’re following the fires. Originally from the MODIS Terra polar orbit Satellite (click the image for the source). The fire appears to […]

October 24, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Wikipedia, Vulcans, Suss-Mahn and cerebral entropy

In case you were looking for it, here’s a list of fictional martial arts courtesy of wikipedia… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_martial_arts How did I arrive there? I was researching Vulcans. There’s a martial art called Suss-Mahn used by T’Pol in one of the enterprise episodes (which I just watched for $1.99 courtesy of the awesome Unbox) and it’s […]

October 22, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

South Africa are the new Rugby world champs!!!!!!!!!!

It was a tougher game that I expected – in fact it was a bit of a nail biter. But we won and Bryan Habana has been named player of the year by the Rugby Board. 🙂 It was cool hanging out with other South Africans at St Andrews pub in Green Lake watching the […]

October 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Is Google.com down for anyone else?

…or is it just me? Seems to have gone down for a few minutes at a time around 11pm to midnight for the last few evenings. It’s not tied to browser or workstation, but may be tied to our public IP address. All other websites work including news.google.com and blogsearch.google.com – just www.google.com seems to […]

October 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

The Nash Equilibrium & The Prisoners Dilemma

Interesting video I ran across this evening looking for interviews with John Nash:

October 18, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Stille waters, diepe grond, onder draai die duiwel rond.

I was scrambling through a deep canyon on Sunday on Snoqualmie’s South Fork and ended up at this beautiful quiet pool that looked very deep and had a very nice brookie that grabbed my thin mint streamer after a few casts. I was reminded of an Afrikaans expression: “Stille waters, diepe grond, onder draai die […]

October 16, 2007 | Randomness | 2 comments

South Africa in the Rugby World Cup Final!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I paid my $30 bucks for pay per view and watched SA teach Argentina a lesson in Rugby respect yesterday beating them 37-13. Bryan Habana you are a God!! If anyone knows a good place to watch SA kick England’s arses next weekend let me know. [Preferably somewhere with more South African fans than English]

October 15, 2007 | Randomness | 1 comment

I LOVE MONDAYS!!

Monday mornings are our busiest in terms of traffic. We also get a ton of new user signups over the weekend which means that our numbers get a huge bump every Monday. So I reeeeally look forward to Mondays.

October 8, 2007 | Randomness | 1 comment

Locomotive Breath

My Texan cousin-in-law and I were partying in SoCal recently and we got chatting about favorite songs. He mentioned Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull was his favorite. I just heard it for the first time, and, um, wow! If you’re into hard charging gritty 70’s tube amp rock then you want to check this out. […]

October 7, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

It's a beautiful day in socal!

There’s something about Southern California that is totally awesome. I dunno what it is. No, I’m not moving here, I love Seattle. But California rocks too in it’s own special way!

October 2, 2007 | Randomness | 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.