January 2008
36 posts
Waiting for Kai-Fu Lee to start his talk.
Nader takes steps towards another White House bid →
He better be just kidding around.
PubMatic FAIL
PubMatic seems pretty cool, and I’ve heard lots of cool things about it, but they get a FAIL tonight because when you login from the homepage it doesn’t send your credentials over https. I just filed a ticket, we’ll see how fast they can resolve this.
Update:
Well they get some credit for a fast reply (and fixing the issue), but a emphasized FAIL for pretending it never...
“That, my friend, is what we call a ‘speed-up loop.’”
– The Daily WTF
I just laughed so hard, everyone around me is staring suspiciously now.
potentially fantastic AAPL buy opportunity coming up. of course the question is when.
finally back to ruby (been awhile!) and ZenTest land. Wow, 3.8 autotest is way better at being a good processor citizen.
wishing the mic (and clicker) on my iPhone earbuds worked when plugged into my computer
is it just me or have there been a ton of SaaS failures in the last few weeks? 37signals was today’s victim.
totally digging whatthefont.com
discovering safari will silently not store cookies from subdomains that include underscores (or at least I think that’s what I’m seeing)
Thinking about building a RT plugin for Mail.app
having way too much fun learning objective-c & cocoa. What a spectacular dev environment!
Wow. Sun « MySQL and Oracle « BEA all announced in one day.
looks like i’m going to have to do java again this semester… getting lectured about jUnit
“We need to go beyond the condemnation of spaghetti code to the active...”
– Raymond J. Rubey
Back at the 61C in Pittsburgh. Bummed to be back here, but at least it’s snowing outside
hampered by a severe network outage at our upstream provider
getting hooked on @brandtkurowski’s monster display while he’s out of the office
Vian -- vi clone in Javascript →
Wow.
waiting at the dentist’s office…
“‘Cause, unless I’m missing something, this country is in the middle...”
– “Jummy Carter” (from the Onion)
watching primary coverage live. online. from msnbc. wow. (sad that this is impressive to me)
MonsterHoodies.com - So cute it's scary. →
These guys are going to make a crap-load of money on these.
“In the meantime, think about how many computer science departments earned their...”
– Joel Spolsky
Man is he right.
hell yeah! Finally a productive day! Heading home…
excited we finally launched out new site: http://greenriver.org
running the numbers and discovering The Deck is bringing in >$1.2m/yr. Impressive.
shoveling
discovering that twitterific now uses a plist-defined baseUrl… getting re-energized to hack on OpenConvo again.
discovering that if apache doesn’t have permission to a log directory, apachectl configtest passes and apachectl graceful causes a crash!
having a far too negative week. not a fun way to start off 2008.
@brandtkurowski, a good article on the issue: http://tinyurl.com/34tof9
“This is terrorism itself dressed up as counter-terrorism.”
– Keith Olbermann on Giuliani