June 30, 2008

Yahoo re-org: A view from the ranks

http://gowest.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/27/yahoo-re-org-a-view-from-the-ranks/ this is an awesome rant about yahoo in the last year... sad but probably true.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

June 28, 2008

Welcome to Thrift!

http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ it's part of apache now!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Building a Software Company: How to sell your software for $20,000

http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html good advice that most people will never take
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Yingling Aviation: Aviator's Attic

http://www.yinglingaircraft.com/aviatorsattic/index.html "Gadgets, gear, souvenirs, apparel and more..."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

June 26, 2008

What to do if you are organized and your partner isn’t

http://unclutterer.com/2008/06/24/what-to-do-if-you-are-organized-and-your-partner-isnt/ good advice
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Book Review: High Performance MySQL (2nd Ed.)

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/06/high_performance_mysql_2nd_ed.html "Without a doubt, High Performance MySQL belongs on any serious developer's bookshelf. Like the original, it's an enjoyable, engaging read that provides battled-tested solutions to real-world problems that engineers face in scaling their applications."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

June 25, 2008

Using CTRL+ALT+DEL key combination to open Windows Security opens Task Manager

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281980 that's completely unintuitive...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory "Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

June 24, 2008

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Debian Etch Base Image

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=639 Ah... just what I'm looking for.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609 just what I'm looking for
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Microsoft Pledges Windows XP Support Through 2014

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208800494 imagine that!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Neat tricks for the MySQL command-line pager

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/06/23/neat-tricks-for-the-mysql-command-line-pager/ good idea(s)
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Are social ads getting too much? Try "FriendRank"

http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/23/are-social-ads-getting-too-much-try-friendrank/ Four years ago?! Man I must be some sort of visionary. Or I just had too much time on my hands back then...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

puppet

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet "Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Epic McDonald’s Advertisement/Billboard Fail

http://englishfail.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/epic-mcdonalds-advertisement-fail/ that is awesome!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

June 23, 2008

Lenovo Support & downloads - Drivers and software - ThinkPad T43, T43p

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-58597.html windows drivers for my thinkpad
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Yahoo! Has Me Worried!

http://colincarmichael.ca/2008/06/20/yahoo-has-me-worried/ "You’ll notice that everyone in that list except Jeremy joined Yahoo through acquisition - and they’ve all left recently, too. Uh-oh."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

On the trail of the itinerant computer

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/06/atmospheric_com.php I like the idea of easily moving VMs around as needed...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

SmugVault - Store everything for next to nothing.

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/06/23/smugvault-store-everything-for-next-to-nothing/ cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Open Hack Day: Back to the Hack at Yahoo! (Friday, September 12, 2008)

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/820863/ kick ass! the hack is back!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Nabble - Linux Thinkpad - 250GB disk in T43, anyone?

http://www.nabble.com/250GB-disk-in-T43,-anyone--td17838260.html I'm installing one of these shortly too
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Scribd, the Followup

http://wdr1.com/blog/2008/06/22/scribd-the-followup/ "Nobody cases if they get kicked in the left or the right nut. A kick in the nuts is a kick in the nuts."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

NH90 crashes into Bracciano Lake during an airshow

http://cencio4.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/nh90-crashes-into-bracciano-lake-during-an-airshow/ some good timing on those photos!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

June 20, 2008

Cooking For Engineers

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ I should spend some time here
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Kenmore 8.8 cu. ft. Chest Freezer - Model 1693 at Sears.com

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_04616932000P we may be looking at one of these before too long
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

On blocking

http://dammit.lt/2008/06/20/on-blocking/ tweak your send queue buffer and enjoy life
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

TIP Use memory on video card as swap

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap "Direct Rendering or fast swap. Your choice." Cool hack!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Die, Scribd. Die.

http://wdr1.com/blog/2008/06/15/die-scribd-die/ heh... good little rant, bill...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

June 19, 2008

It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/19/it-gets-worse-for-yahoo-delicious-founder-leaving/ I saw this coming a mile away...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

craigslist blog: New Recruit

http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/new-recruit/ that'd be me
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

CL Desktop

http://www.cldesktop.com/ and people wonder if craigslist may need an API some day... heh. no comment from me.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Anil Dash: Blogger

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mulegirl/2556526514/?addedcomment=1#comment72157605703131770 that's so damned funny
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Installing MySQL from the Development Source Tree

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/installing-source-tree.html the new tree, post-bitkeeper
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Re: [Thinkpad] [T43p] largest capacity HDD recognized

http://martigny.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/thinkpad/2006-05/0009.html all about putting larger disks in the T43p and the 2010 error code
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Version Control: Thanks, BitKeeper — Welcome, Bazaar

http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/06/19/version-control-thanks-bitkeeper-welcome-bazaar/ cool, mysql if off bitkeeper, which always bugged me in subtle ways
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

MySQL Server in Launchpad

https://launchpad.net/mysql-server here's where to find it
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Three More Managers Leaving Yahoo

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/technology/20yahoo.html "And last week, Jeremy Zawodny, who helped start Yahoo’s developer network and was a prominent backer of open-source software within the company, said he was leaving. Today, he said he was joining Craigslist."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Red Hat unveils fully open-source hypervisor

http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344_3-6242043.html interesting... very interesting.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Using Amazon S3 from Perl

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2008/04/08/using-amazon-s3-from-perl.html I should read this...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

June 18, 2008

My favorite organizing magazines

http://unclutterer.com/2008/06/18/my-favorite-organizing-magazines/ looks like some useful magazines
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Done, and Gets Things Smart

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html "Having a good memory is a serious impediment to understanding. It lets you cheat your way through life."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

June 17, 2008

ASP.NET: ASM to IL compiler

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/asmil.htm apparently, Just Because...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000

http://waxy.org/2008/06/code_rush/ cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Moving On

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/movingon "San Francisco is filled with distractions. There are always crews tearing up the street, trains that are delayed, buses that have broken down, homeless people begging, friends having parties, and so on."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Weight & Balance Calculator Cessna 182 R

http://home.new.rr.com/trumpetb/alph/wb182R.html cool.. the numbers are pretty good for the 182Q as well
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Shiny Review: Acer Aspire One sub-notebook

http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2008/06/shiny_review_ac.html hmm, looks like a decent machine
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

What is it like to write a technical book?

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/what-is-it-like-to-write-a-technical-book/ 'You can cut your work down by about 75% if you keep working on more and more detailed outlines, long past the point you think you ought to start “writing.”' True. Lots of good stuff in that post.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

How to write a lazy UNION in MySQL at Xaprb

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/how-to-write-a-lazy-union-in-mysql/ there's a cool mysql hack
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Denormalization or "What did you mean by that?"

http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/iblog/architecture/C20070522153704/E20080614075940/index.html sometimes it's good to dumb down the database...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Toggl - Time tracking - that works.

http://www.toggl.com/ lightweight online task tracking
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/google-app-engine-goes-down-and-stays-down/ "Stuff like this tends to make developers nervous about adopting a new platform." No shit.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Firefox 3: New front in the browser war

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9970015-7.html it's upgrade time
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

June 14, 2008

Gears De-Brands

http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=677 ouch!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1045782.html good advice
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Kingda Ka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingda_Ka looks like quite a ride!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

June 12, 2008

Disappearing Car Doors: A Revolutionary Concept in Car Technology & Design

http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/ that's pretty cool
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

The Five Stages Of Early Adopter Behavior

http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/five-stages-of-early-adopter-behavior.html that is sooooo true
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Jeremy Zawodny Profile on CrunchBase

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeremy-zawodny hey, I have a CrunchBase page... there's a bad link in it though
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

mySQL DBA: How to pick indexes for order by and group by queries

http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-pick-indexes-for-order-by-and.html a pretty good discussion of the topic
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Chinese babies named 'Olympic Games'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7448363.stm heh... the chinese are funny
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Prominent open-source developer bids Yahoo adieu

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9966887-7.html "That philosophy aligns closely with the Yahoo Open Strategy, under which Yahoo is trying to make itself an open foundation for others' Web-based applications and to expose some of its inner workings for use by other Web sites."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

June 11, 2008

obstcp

http://code.google.com/p/obstcp/ "Obfuscated TCP is a backwards-compatible modification to the TCP protocol which adds opportunistic encryption. It's designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet." Interesting!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

BatteryMINDers.com

http://www.batteryminders.com/batterycharger/home.php cool... they have a web site with PDF manuals and stuff. yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Firefox 3: Fonts and text

http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/10/651/ yet another reason to upgrade
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Firefox 3, Developing and Browsing

http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4185 "Right now for example, I have 231 tabs open in 36 windows" Holy Fucking Shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Jeff Weiner’s Departure From Yahoo Imminent, Speculation on Successor Begins

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/11/jeff-weiners-departure-from-yahoo-imminent-speculation-on-successor-begins/ interesting changes are afoot at the big Y
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Best MySQL Server Under $10K?

http://beerpla.net/2008/06/11/best-mysql-server-under-10k/ there are probably more options than what I see in the comments now
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

June 10, 2008

Welcome to San Jose Dry Carpet Cleaners

http://www.sanjosedrycarpetcleaners.com/ may need them to come pay a visit soemday
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

June 09, 2008

Delicious 2.0: We’ve Been Waiting 9 Months

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/09/delicious-20-weve-been-waiting-9-months/ "Delicious 2.0 is a serious black eye for Yahoo and the Delicious team. It’s time for them to update us on when we can expect a general release of the next version."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Basic aircraft empty weight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_aircraft_empty_weight is the weight of an aircraft without taking into account any baggage, passengers, or usable fuel. Basic empty weight includes all fluids necessary for operation such as engine oil, engine coolant, and unusable fuel.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

June 08, 2008

overview of firefox 3 screencast

http://people.mozilla.com/~beltzner/overview-of-firefox3.swf a quick tour of some of the major enhancements from an end user point of view
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

June 06, 2008

How Computers Boot Up

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up good description
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

June 04, 2008

I want to start a company!

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2008/06/03/i-want-to-start-a-company/ Amr is leaving Yahoo... he's not the only one from what I hear
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Defense Internet NOTAM Service

https://www.notams.jcs.mil/dinsQueryWeb/ a good place to get your NOTAMs online
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

June 03, 2008

MSI Wind Notebook: Windows

http://www.msimobile.com/DetailPage.aspx?model=Wind_NB_Windows Windows version...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

MSI Wind Notebook: Linux

http://www.msimobile.com/DetailPage.aspx?model=Wind_NB_Linux Linux version
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

June 02, 2008

When your USB thumb drive doesn’t show up in XP

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/fix-usb-drive-in-xp/ I've had to resort to this for a few of my USB hard disks... annoying
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM