Archive for May, 2007
Jonathan Moore and I watched this stream live over the web today. What was funny is that during the talk we kept saying “check” as we had a lot of the infrastructure work they implemented. For example, they’re doing vertical table partitioning in Big Table. Anyway.. There’s more information surfacing here. I’m going to have [...]
Check out Startup Search…. (which True was nice enough to sponsor). Tailrank is there of course… Looks like we’re one of the top ranked companies! Also, check out The Funded which is kind of the inverse.
Why is Flickr so slow lately? Is Flickr the new Twitter?
About six months ago I blogged about how Six Apart was planning on censoring my blog in response to a fake DMCA takedown notice: Just to follow up here, the legal advice we have received is that for the next 10 business days, the disputed content does need to be removed from public access. If [...]
We’ve been playing with partitioning in MySQL 5.1.18 from the MySQL AB community builds and noticed that the daemon will dump core every 5 minutes or so when under load. Recompiling from source fixes the problem. Anyone else notice stability problems?
Apparently, Twitter is raising a VC round: VB: Are you raising a round of capital now? Williams: We are raising our first outside round. VB: Can you disclose the amount? Williams: No. VB: You just starting that round now? Williams: We are about half-way through the process. We’ve been trying to decide who we want [...]
Rich blogs that Code is the Enemy and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been looking for ways to get code out of the code. Is there something the code is doing that can be turned into an external dataset, and driven by a web UI, or some rule-list that I can contract out to someone [...]
The NY Times, Andrew Sullivan, and a host of others are calling the out Bush administrations on torture: The phrase “Verschärfte Vernehmung” is German for “enhanced interrogation”. Other translations include “intensified interrogation” or “sharpened interrogation”. It’s a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave [...]
Google Gears launches today and brings together a lot of open loops in my career. While at Rojo, we spent a lot of time talking about offline storage. NewsMonster was the first RSS aggregator that added full offline support (which I’m still proud of – only took Google five years!) and we generally wanted it [...]
Techcrunch and Search Engine Land are covering the release of Mahalo. Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early “Alpha” test release. In Mahalo, human editors have crafted shows up in the top search results for popular queries. For example, search for [paris hotels], and human [...]
XenuTV posted a great video on Anderson Cooper covering the Scientology and Me controversy. It’s interesting seeing this Scientologist flat out lie on camera.
Fallwel was right. It appears the Teletubbies might be gay after all: A senior Polish official has ordered psychologists to investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle. The spokesperson for children’s rights in Poland, Ewa Sowinska, singled out Tinky Winky, the purple character with a triangular aerial on his head. [...]
One bug which can have a negative SEO impact on Typepad migrations. Older URLs return 302 not HTTP 301. For example fetching this: http://www.feedblog.org/2007/04/slack_and_mysql.html returns a 302 redirect to: http://feedblog.org/2007/04/27/slack-and-mysql/ It should return a 301 ….
This episode of Fresh Air is extremely interesting: The latest techniques in DNA analysis have opened a window on the history of human evolution. Nicholas Wade, a science reporter for The New York Times, chronicles this new avenue of science in his book Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. It’s interesting [...]
This advice is pretty much dead on from my perspective: From angel investors to a liquidity event, he told us the way things would happen. First round, second round, common stock, preferred stock, dilution etc. etc. He said that the goal for a founder is to retain between 2% and 10% of the company (f*** [...]
Finally we did *something* right in Iraq. Assuming this isn’t a lie (like Pat Tillman), this is probably one of the only good things that has happened since the Iraq war began: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. forces have freed 42 Iraqi citizens who were kidnapped, held by al Qaeda in Iraq for as long [...]
Nick and Greg are right. If you want to kill Google (not that this would be a good thing) you need to go after their air supply. Google is doing this to Microsoft with their online office suite. Microsoft makes the bulk of their cash from MS Office and Google is trying to choke them [...]
Apparently, there’s been an outstanding bug for nearly two years for MySQL to add support for millisecond storage in DATETIME and TIME data types. A microseconds part is allowable in temporal values in some contexts, such as in literal values, and in the arguments to or return values from some temporal functions. Microseconds are specified [...]
This should just about do it. God bless capitalism. Caltrans officials worked to speed the process by preparing a list of potential contractors it knew could do the work quickly and by streamlining its process, clearing as much red tape as possible. Then they drew up a contract offering a $200,000 bonus — with a [...]
There’s been a lot of talk today about the end of the Microsoft tax. If you bought a desktop PC from Dell, you got — and paid for — a copy of Windows, whether you wanted it or not. This is commonly referred to as “The Microsoft Tax”. It was NEVER a tax – it [...]
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