At the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, a Russian medical officer asked the Olympic Committee whether the use of insulin was restricted to athletes who are insulin dependent diabetics. The incident drew attention to insulin and the IOC were swift to ban it as a performance enhancing drug. I recently posted a question on […]
It’s been a year long break from blogging and getting back to writing and getting a so many new visitors this soon is cool. [Thanks HN!] This blog runs on the smallest available Linode 512 instance for $20/month. It runs several sites including family blogs and hobby sites. I run nginx on the front end […]
May 28, 2011 | Economics, Innovation, lighttpd, Nginx, Startups | No comments
Clarence from Panabee pinged me a few minutes ago mentioning Panabee.com. I hadn’t heard of it and along with nxdom.com I’m going to add it to my toolkit to brainstorm available domain names. My attitude re names these days fluctates between the-name-is-everything and back to sanity. A week ago I was obsessed with the domain […]
May 27, 2011 | Startup Hacks, Startups, Trademark | No comments
This quote, which went viral 2 months ago and that Steinbeck probably never said, has stuck with me: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ~Maybe not Steinbeck, but it’s cool and it’s true. As temporarily embarrassed millionaire programmers I feel we sometimes […]
May 27, 2011 | Innovation, Inspiration, Printing Money, Startups | 13 comments
This one is short and sweet. A new domain recently wasn’t getting any SEO traffic after 2 months. As soon as the registration was made non-private i.e. we removed the domainsByProxy mask on who owns the domain, it started getting traffic and has been growing ever since. Correlation does not equal causation, but it does […]
May 26, 2011 | SEO | 2 comments
A hobby site I have has around 300,000 pages indexed and good pagerank. It gets a fair amount of SEO traffic which has been growing. The rate at which Google indexes the site has been steadily climbing and is now indexing at around 2 to 3 pages per second. I added a new page on […]
May 25, 2011 | SEO | 1 comment
The last two scifi novels I’ve read coincidentally both had a machine that can upload several years of education to your brain in a matter of hours. I was ruminating on what the effect would be on education if we invented the instant-edu machine today. Imagine you could instant-edu the Harvard Business School syllabus in a few […]
May 25, 2011 | Economics | No comments
After a 1 year without feeling the need to hold forth on issues I know very little about, I’m back blogging. The spammers got hold of my blog and I deleted thousands of garbage comments that managed to get through my spam filter. If I accidentally deleted yours or you’re unable to post a comment […]
May 25, 2011 | Introspection | No comments
Update: It seems I’ve created a monster. I’ve had my first two Google searchers arrive on this blog entry searching for “limit roomate downloading” and “netgear limit roomate”. Well after years of experimenting with QoS this is the best method I’ve found to do exactly that, so enjoy. For part of the year I’m on […]
January 26, 2011 | networks | 60 comments
Based on recent events I suspect an investment axiom might exist that says: The further an investor is abstracted away from the underlying asset they’re investing in, the greater the risk. This has been shown recently to be true with Mortgage backed securities, credit default swaps, the black box that is the hedge fund industry […]