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
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
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
An article on techmeme today talking about a judge in the UK ruling that FB friends are real friends. It reminds me that many people use social networks in many different ways. My 16 year old nephew has over 6,000 friends on myspace and he’s never met most of them. I have about 100 friends […]
March 28, 2008 | SocialSchmocial | No comments
[warning: non-geeky personal blog entry for benefit of extended family] A few weeks ago mum and dad were sailing their boat up an inlet in a group of islands called the Andamans. (They’re about halfway between India and Thailand and belong to India) They ran aground on a coral reef on a spring tide thanks […]
March 27, 2008 | Family | 1 comment
A lame video on techcrunch today inspired me to go hunting for the original argument between Linus Torvalds and (Professor) Andy Tanenbaum and here it is. Titled Linux is Obsolete, it’s a post by the author of Minix in 1992 telling Linus he’s just created an obsolete OS that’s running on obsolete hardware (the 386) […]
March 26, 2008 | Technology | No comments
This is too much. A guy in Jacksonville, Oregon had his house cleaned out thanks to a malicious ad placed on Craigslist. Someone posted an ad saying that the house had been declared abandoned and all the belongings including a horse were free to good homes. So the entire neighborhood rocked up and started carting […]
March 25, 2008 | Crazy | No comments
Nice touch getting Bill to play the sax. 🙂 [obamagirl video below] And in case you haven’t seen it, check out Hillary’s latest faux pas on youtube today. And now I need to go flagellate myself for an hour for violating my not-blogging-about-politics rule.
March 25, 2008 | Startups | No comments
[Thanks Sam for the idea for this entry] Ever heard of IP Anycasting? Thanks to my recent change from godaddy (frowny face and no link) to dnsmadeeasy (happy face and they get a link) I’m now using a DNS provider that provides anycasting. What is it and should you care? IP Anycasting is assigning the […]
March 24, 2008 | Startups, Technology | 1 comment
Have you ever tried to get Apache to handle 10,000 concurrent connections? For example, you have a very busy website and you enable keepalive on your web server. Then you set the timeout to something high like 300 seconds for ridiculously slow clients (sounds crazy but I think that’s Apache’s default). All of a sudden […]
March 23, 2008 | Scaling | No comments