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Phish Phood and the Mystery of the Dissapearing Kitty

I don’t feel so good. Last night I ate a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Phood in a single sitting. It’s basically every decadent thing they could come up with shoved into a 1 pint cardboard container. I think I made myself diabetic in an evening. I had good reason though. My cat dissapeared […]

March 7, 2008 | Startups | No comments

QOTD

From the nginx docs under Known Problems: 3. Nginx may laugh at your Perl code and hit on your girlfriend.

March 6, 2008 | Code | No comments

Benjamin Zander and Shining Eyes

Alec Hogg writes about Benjamin Zander’s session at Davos in Moneyweb, a South African publication. Lots to take away from this.

March 5, 2008 | Inspiration | No comments

Mergelab

I had the great pleasure this morning of getting a surprise visit from Phil, Mark and Alan from Mergelab at our offices. We had an excellent chat and shared a little of what each of us is working on. It’s been great watching the rapid and early iterative approach they’ve taken to figuring out what […]

March 5, 2008 | Startups | No comments

BOFH

About 5 thousand years ago at UCT a friend of mine introduced me to the BOFH series. I decided knowing what BOFH is is a prerequisite for the ops position I have open so I found them online and while I’m waiting for the right version of Ubunu to download (after installing the 32 bit […]

February 15, 2008 | BOFH | No comments

XTreme Football

From Antonio S in Croatia – one of the coolest viral campaigns I’ve seen for a while. Check the outtakes at http://5x5m.com/files/xtremefootball/

February 10, 2008 | Viral | No comments

We Caucused Today in Sammamish, Washington

We went to Beaver Lake High School and Caucused today. It was jam packed and old timers were telling us this is the fullest they’ve ever seen it. The table next to us got 50 votes for Obama and only 4 for Clinton. Our table (or precinct) got 25 for Obama and 14 for Clinton. […]

February 9, 2008 | Startups | No comments

Obama in Seattle, Lipitor and the Lake Washington Rowing Club

Kerry and I hit the Obama Rally at the Staples Center today at 11am. We got there late and it was already full to capacity – which is 17,000 people. So we decided to hang around outside with a crowd of around 5,000 other folks in freezing rain. The buzz was awesome and when Barack […]

February 8, 2008 | Startups | No comments

Snowkiting and Powder in Utah

CRV and Bill Tai put together an awesome weekend in the mountains of Utah snowkiting. Thanks  Jeff Kafka and team for some awesome instruction. I think the most memorable moment was Chris Sacca getting up on stage at the local bar and singing Stairway to Heaven including the screamy bits at the end. Tell me […]

February 4, 2008 | Fun | No comments

Bald Eagles on Sammamish Pathway

Our morning walk took us past two bald eagles sitting in a tall tree with no leaves so we had a great view. The NW Rocks!

January 30, 2008 | Startups | 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.