One of the most popular pages on this blog is a post I wrote two years ago titled “World wide cities database and other free geospatial data“. There are still few people out there who realize that not only can you get a free world-wide cities database from the national geospatial ingelligence agency in the […]
October 17, 2009 | Maps n Geo Stuff | No comments
I’ve spent the last 5 days agonizing over a very hard problem on my network. Using curl, LWP::UserAgent, openssl, wget or any other SSL client, I’d see connections either timeout or hang halfway through the transfer. Everything else works fine including secure protocols like SSH and TLS. In fact inbound SSL connections work great too. […]
October 17, 2009 | Linux | 1 comment
It took me a while to find this – I needed it for testing purposes, nothing malicious. If you’d like your web server somewhere on the web to pretend to be any other web server, even a secure one, you can do the following. x.x.x.x is your own server and y.y.y.y is the ip of […]
October 16, 2009 | Linux | No comments
While I upgrade to Karmic, here’s a quick setup to get a virtual ubuntu server running on a real ubuntu server: As root: ubuntu-vm-builder kvm jaunty –hostname dev2 –addpkg openssh-server vim -d /usr/local/vms/dev2 –mem 256 –libvirt qemu:///system This will create a jaunty jackalope ubuntu virtual server using the KVM hypervisor. The hostname will be dev2. […]
Under the guise of fostering innovation, guys like The Life Sciences and Healthcare Venture Summit, who spammed me today are happily taking money from entrepreneurs and offering a tax deductible day out of the office in return. Perhaps I’m inspired by Jason Calcanis’s recent jihad against investors that charge you to pitch, but these high […]
October 15, 2009 | Startups | No comments
What’s a Bleet? A blog entry that really should be a tweet. Naval and Nivi (venturehacks) posted an interesting tweet today: Chris Dixon on the problem with taking seed money from big VCs: http://j.mp/2BHIPe. Some solutions: http://j.mp/4hFSsL I agree. I think there’s cachet value in having a large VC invest and based on Chris’s (IMO […]
October 14, 2009 | Startups | No comments
Update: I wrote this blog entry and then predictably, I unposted it after my more diplomatic side took over. But it got out via my RSS feed anyway and a friend enjoyed it. So here it is in all it’s left wing liberal glory. I’m switching the published date to today. Enjoy. I’m an immigrant. […]
October 12, 2009 | Immigration, Innovation, Startups | No comments
I’m in Colorado in a semi-rural area in Elbert County in the town of Elizabeth. I get a lot of work done here because there’s not much going on. This is taken from my macbook’s webcam pointed out the window.
October 11, 2009 | Fun, Randomness | No comments
There’s a spectacular interview on ft.com today with my favorite FT journalist John Authers with Bruce Greenwald who teaches Ben Graham’s value investing course at Columbia. Bruce talks about behavioural finance and the irrationality of investors, the often ignored mathematical realities of the market, the brutality and danger of short selling (all short sales are […]
I’m sitting here laughing hysterically at 3am trying not to wake the whole house. Found this old fail surfing youtube:
October 11, 2009 | Startups | No comments