A Big Fish
The biggest freshwater fish caught by a woman record in the UK has been smashed. This old man was safely released after having his weight verified by the lake bailiff. Details on “A Welsh View”.
September 21, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Feedjit on Techcrunch
Feedjit made Techcrunch this evening and Michael has installed both our widgets on the blog entry, complete with his own personal color scheme “Arring Town”. We also rolled out a new version that adds a pretty cool (if I say so myself) ajax widget customization interface. Now you can choose your own colors – a […]
September 2, 2007 | Startups | No comments
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
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
X-Games Video: Jake Brown's unbelievable 40 foot fall
Jake Brown fell 40 feet and landed so hard in the transition at the X-Games last night that his shoes flew off. Forward to the end of the vid and watch the slowmo version. Brown spent Thursday night in a local hospital, where he was treated for a bleeding liver, two sprained wrists, a bruised […]
August 3, 2007 | Startups | No comments
A good book
If you’re a bit of a sci-fi fan, a bit of a maritime adventure fan, like all things engineering, then I have just the book for you. The Ice Limit is one of the best paperbacks I’ve read for a very very long time.
August 3, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Why linux rocks
I’m busy decommissioning an old server I’ve had for almost a year. I’ve used it for dev and testing and installed a bunch of crap on it. It has never required a reboot and has been busily chugging away. Here’s it’s uptime: 11:20:46 up 333 days, 8:13, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.34, 1.21 The […]
August 2, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Quote of the day
Douglas MacArthur – “We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.”
July 30, 2007 | Startups | No comments