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This is how I watched the superbowl


Posted 03 February 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

From a Joyent Newsletter this evening

This is not good timing:
Joyent Delivers Scale
Did you know the largest application running on Joyent’s infrastructure is aFacebook application that serves up over 700m pages a month and was built using Ruby on Rails? That’s right folks - Ruby on Rails DOES scale.

Posted 31 January 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

friendship

Friendship is a bizarre thing to me. Not insomuch that I don’t have any friends, but just that its weird when one actually thinks to sit down and define what the concept means. I say this because Sunday I reconnected with someone who I was friends with a while ago, and drifted apart from after [...]

Posted 05 December 2007 § ‡ Comments (2) °

Fear and Mongering in the Blogosphere (iPhone edition)

[From EXCLUSIVE: Apple Secretly Tracking iPhone IMEI and Usage (with proof)]

Another blog slamdown without any factual data. Wonderful. Here is some facts about IMEI’s, lifted from the bastian of sources (Wikipedia)
Format:
AA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-D
NN - Reporting Body Identifier
XXXXXX - Type Identifier
ZZZZZZ - Specifies the model information
D - Check digit
IMEI’s are globally unique and carry from cell [...]

Posted 19 November 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Press embargos are so old school


Posted 05 November 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) °

A few Leopard Points

I use a Mac probably 14 hours a day, 5 days a week, and a few hours a day on the weekends. My Mac at work consists of a Mac Pro with four screens, 8 gigs of RAM and a shit load of stuff going on.
At any given point I have 4 terminal windows, 30 [...]

Posted 27 October 2007 § ‡ Comments (4) °

Nashville

I’m in Nashville, TN and went to a singer-songwriter “in the round” thing at The Bluebird Cafe. It was quite interesting and I realized while watching these folks that I’m open to any music when there is artistry behind it, so I did enjoy myself.
Funny thing about country thematics, the songs seemed mostly about the [...]

Posted 03 October 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) °