Jake Brown fell 40 feet and landed so hard in the transition at the X-Games last night that his shoes flew off. Forward to the end of the vid and watch the slowmo version. Brown spent Thursday night in a local hospital, where he was treated for a bleeding liver, two sprained wrists, a bruised […]
August 3, 2007 | Startups | No comments
If you’re a bit of a sci-fi fan, a bit of a maritime adventure fan, like all things engineering, then I have just the book for you. The Ice Limit is one of the best paperbacks I’ve read for a very very long time.
August 3, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Marc Andreessen has a great post on the collapse of the Sowood hedge fund recently. Reading this I have a weird sense of deja-vu. LTCM collapsed while I was working at Credit Suisse First Boston in Canary Wharf, London. CSFB lost about $700 million. Around the same time the Russian economy took a dip and […]
August 3, 2007 | Business | 1 comment
After getting a TON of work done today I drove up to the South Fork of the Snoqualmie river to fish a secret spot I’ve discovered fairly high up in the mountains. There’s a forgotten path down to the river, you scramble over some rocks, slide down a small waterfall, boulder around a bend in […]
August 2, 2007 | Fly Fishing | 4 comments
I’m busy decommissioning an old server I’ve had for almost a year. I’ve used it for dev and testing and installed a bunch of crap on it. It has never required a reboot and has been busily chugging away. Here’s it’s uptime: 11:20:46 up 333 days, 8:13, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.34, 1.21 The […]
August 2, 2007 | Startups | No comments
I couldn’t find any docs on compiling mod_perl2 alongside php5 with apache 2.2, so hopefully this helps someone. I’ve always statically compiled mod_perl into apache, but the easiest way to get mod_perl to play nice with PHP under apache2 is to compile them as DSO’s or dynamic modules that are inserted at runtime. I’ve tested […]
August 1, 2007 | Code | 4 comments
I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted. With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates. Our love of Facebook is duly recanted. We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.
July 30, 2007 | Randomness, Rants, Tech News, Technology | No comments
Douglas MacArthur – “We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.”
July 30, 2007 | Startups | No comments
My bro (in the literal sense) Nick is on the home page of Reddit this morning with an article about the chopper crash yesterday. As always, it’s all in the headline: Can you Believe they are Charging the Fugitive Driver for the Deaths in the Press Chopper Crash? Writing headlines of pure genius like this […]
July 28, 2007 | Marketing | No comments
Once upon a time I was a Facebook addict. It was an awesome way to reach out to people I haven’t been in contact with for years, share photos, update your status 80 times a day, etc. But Facebook apps are getting a little out of hand… …and I’ve always hated that friend detail feature. […]
July 28, 2007 | Tech News | No comments