May 2010
15 posts
“ “But it wasn’t BP that was yelling at us, it was the...”
– “It’s BP’s Oil” - Mother Jones
“BP is not tackling this mess alone. The entire drilling industry is involved,...”
– Critical Perspective - Talking Points Memo Interesting insight.
MBP’s back! With a brand new Logic Board, Screen & SuperDrive. Thanks AppleCare.
Yay! My MBP which got picked up by FedEx at 4PM yesterday has already been repaired by Apple and is on its way back.
apparently Apple is REALLY thankful we bought an iPad. They’ve sent me no less that 5 identical “Thanks for purchasing your iPad.” emails.
excited about the new Google Font API! http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/
Verizon MiFi continues to impress: 1Mbps in the middle of the woods in western mass on amtrak. AT&T: “No Service”
Our MiFi (on VZW) arrived today and so far it’s living up to the hype: Fast, no configuration & tiny enough to easily slide in a pocket.
Run Thinking Sphinx as a specific user via...
Thinking Sphinx comes with some very convenient capistrano tasks. We run each of our apps with their own daemon account which we also want the sphinx process to run under. By default the capistrano tasks will run sphinx under your user account. One easy solution is to define the following in your Capfile (or config/deploy.rb):
set :rake, "sudo -u sphinx_user rake"
Lawrence Lessig: A Case for Kagan →
holy shit, has this been like the worst two weeks or what? I can’t even count how much crap has happened around the country & world.
Did Faisal Shahzad leave a YouTube comment on a...
I was just looking at the supposed Time Square Bomber’s resume, as posted on MSNBC. And noticed he includes his email address: fshahzad1@gmail.com. I did a quick google search on ‘fshahzad1’ and came up with the following YouTube comment:
oh we still have dollar? I thought we were done with it in 2001, who owns FED RES,
300 people. not US GOV
Since most YouTube accounts...
