There’s something about Southern California that is totally awesome. I dunno what it is. No, I’m not moving here, I love Seattle. But California rocks too in it’s own special way!
October 2, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
I take my dev server and my workstation everywhere with me in a single small backpack. My “dev server” is an intel macbook that dual-boots Linux and OSX. My workstation is a windows laptop. Most of my work is done with the macbook booted into Linux and my windows laptop running an SSH client that […]
October 1, 2007 | Technology | No comments
Phil Bogle wrote recently about an awesome image resizing algorithm. I found out via a welsh view what happened to it. It’s been launched as a website called RSizr.com and is also available as a Gimp plugin called Liquid Rescale. It’s really really cool to see this amazing algo take the open source route. It’s […]
October 1, 2007 | Code | No comments
If you’ve ever visited Nissan.com you’ll know the story of Uzi Nissan being sued by Nissan Motor Corp. Having been sued over trademark infringement before, I know how hard this must have been for Uzi – and how hard the decision to appeal must have been. Nissan.com is a descriptive name in the case of […]
October 1, 2007 | Rants | 1 comment
Kerry and I left last Wednesday morning at 6am and drove to Wells, Nevada and spent the night in a Super8 Motel, the only one in the area that would take our traveling buddies (ziggy the fat orange cat and joey the aussie cattle dog). The town was a dive. I know this because the […]
October 1, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
I think free speech is the greatest thing about the USA. It’s what makes this country a true democracy and it’s the benchmark of any country claiming that they are a democracy. Holding free and fair elections is only part of being a democracy. The other part is free speech and freedom of information. So […]
September 24, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
From my (non-red-headed) brother: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22289183-2,00.html?from=public_rss REDHEADS are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years, according to genetic scientists. The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world’s population has natural red hair, created by a mutation in northern Europe thousands of years ago. Global intermingling, which broadens […]
September 24, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
I have this little 64 bit dual core opteron that I’m busy torturing with way more traffic than it’s creators intended. I sometimes edit code on my live servers – only when I’m sure it’s not going to break anything and only when I’m wide-awake and fully caffeinated. Today I tried to edit a file […]
September 24, 2007 | Code | No comments
One of the better ad images I’ve seen lately – courtesy of seaspace.cn:
September 23, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Here’s a new way of looking at the world. It’s called a Dymaxion Map or Fuller Projection, invented by Buckminster Fuller in 1946. This particular views shows all our land masses connected – it makes the world look as small as it’s becoming.
September 23, 2007 | Maps n Geo Stuff | 1 comment