This afternoon Wendy, Mark, and Oliver are at the 2011 Caswell Arts Festival. It’s a great event and a lot of fun. One problem, we almost missed out on it because we never heard of it until the last minute. I am not blaming the organizers or anyone else. They have always done a good [...]
Yahoo!
Cloning del.icio.us
As Andre Torrez says, its a lot easier said than done. Register and install an SSL cert to appease the security minded. Also: where are you hosting this? What database? MySQL? Good. InnoDB? If you’re deploying with another engineer, have the typical 30 minute conversation about deploying databases every two hours.
Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Wife (and mother of your kids)
Update: The 2010 editions of the Christmas Gift Guides for Your Wife / Girlfriend is now online. Follow the link for more 2010 Christmas Gift Guides. Wendy is the world’s hardest women to shop for and the suggestions from Amazon Gift Central just inspired sarcastic mocking comments. Wendy asked me to put together a short [...]
GeoCities, RIP
So Yahoo! is axing GeoCities which is kind of sad for those of us who remember when a free megabyte of free hosting was pretty amazing. Yahoo! pretty much wrecked the community that drove the site within days of purchasing it and it’s value was gone. It was in many ways the initial social networking [...]
Eat Your Own Dogfood
I was reading Thomas Hawk’s excellent post on how the CEO and the marketing chief of Yahoo! doesn’t use Flickr when I clicked on a link to this great e-mail from 2003 by Bill Gates over his frustration in trying to download a piece of Microsoft software. It goes beyond technology. I keep thinking of [...]
