February 27, 2009

Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over Quantity

http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity good advice!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

PBMS supports Drizzle

http://bpbdev.blogspot.com/2009/02/pbms-supports-drizzle.html cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Goodbye Concentric, Hello Drizzle

http://www.oddments.org/?p=45 congrats to Eric and Sun (and Drizzle)!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Pen question

http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2009/02/25/pen-question/ "Why is it that when a pen seems like it is running out of ink, you can scribble on another part of the page and get it to work, but you can’t resume writing in the area you were working on when it ran out of ink?" I wonder that too!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

JSONView - View JSON documents in Firefox

http://brh.numbera.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/24/jsonview-view-json-documents-in-firefox/ that could be handy
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql interesting approach that uses MySQL as more of a glorified column store, since writing "normal" relational queries becomes difficult. But it does scale and that's what matters.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

February 26, 2009

Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall

http://waxy.org/2009/02/translating_the_economist/ uhm, wow
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

February 25, 2009

Database Sharding at Netlog, with MySQL and PHP

http://www.jurriaanpersyn.com/archives/2009/02/12/database-sharding-at-netlog-with-mysql-and-php/ "If you're interested in high performance, scalability, MySQL, php, caching, partitioning, Sphinx, federation or Netlog, read on"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

craigslist gay ages

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/culture/craigslist-gay-ages.html "For the past seven months I've been archiving the RSS for the Bay Area boards, a collection of 485,000 unique personal ads. Here's the distribution of ages of posters. "
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

MaxTo

http://maxto.net/ looks like a handy windows tool for larger monitors
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

The Volatile Housing Market

http://www.behaviorgap.com/the-volatile-housing-market/ I love the contrast between those two covers
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

office faq

http://www.biscade.com/office/ that is mildly insane
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

February 24, 2009

tor blacklist

http://proxy.org/tor_blacklist.txt suitable for .htaccess
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Tor Servers

http://proxy.org/tor.shtml a more detailed list
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Amazon.com: Vapor Pressure and Antoine Constants for Hydroncarbons, and Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium, and Halogen Containing Organic Compounds (Landolt-Bornstein, 20): J. Dykyj, J. Svoboda, R.C. Wilhoit, M. Frenkel, K.R. Hall: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Constants-Hydroncarbons-Tellurium-Containing-Landolt-Bornstein/dp/354064735X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1235500898&sr=8-2 holy fuck! that's a $4,500 book!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Rocket with NASA global warming satellite crashes

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/24/state/n015835S60.DTL&tsp=1 FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Amusing Driving/Parking Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygtBxhFc24A&eurl=http://www.newsland.ru/News/Detail/id/334451/cat/18/?utm_source=partners&utm_medium=tizer some of these clips are not new but the whole set is amusing anyway
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

February 23, 2009

You Suck at Craigslist

http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

HOWTO: Verizon UM175 USB EVDO Card under Ubuntu Hardy

http://www.jasons.org/2008/09/02/howto-verizon-um175-usb-evdo-card-under-ubuntu-hardy/ this may come in handy
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

February 19, 2009

Star Trek Inspired Corset

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20121538 that's awesome in a geeky sexy kind of way
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

Expectations

http://lonesysadmin.net/2009/02/19/expectations/ we've all been there, haven't we?
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

February 18, 2009

The 2nd Annual NorCal Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational

http://grilledcheeseinvitational.com/norcal/ YUM!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Ailing man's family finds kidney donor on Craigslist

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/18/kidney.donor.craigslist/index.html you can find everything on the list
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

February 17, 2009

Non-Hierarchical Management

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/management agreed 100%
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

February 16, 2009

Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications

http://highscalability.com/scaling-digg-and-other-web-applications some excellent advice in these talk notes
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

February 15, 2009

Do NOT eat the World's Hottest Pepper

http://bingethink.blogspot.com/2009/02/psa-do-not-eat-worlds-hottest-pepper.html "the pain comes in waves"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Hearts of Space

http://www.hos.com/ they're testing a new flash streaming audio player... It's amazing to think about how much HoS has done over the last 30 years!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Tailplane Icing [video]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2238323060735779946 an old NASA training video that explains how tailplane icing happens... notice the similarities to the recent crash in upstate NY
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Make Firefox Remember Passwords without a Bookmarklet

http://cybernetnews.com/2009/02/13/firefox-remember-passwords/ a handy little tweak
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

February 14, 2009

Xapian performance comparision with Whoosh « Searching with Xapian

http://xapian.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/xapian-performance-comparision-with-whoosh/ not surprising, but good to see some real numbers
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

February 13, 2009

Introducing Bespin

http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/02/introducing-bespin/ very interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

February 12, 2009

Why Debian Is Not My Favourite Operating System

http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/wxinmfpl/debian.html heh... via sam ruby
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

I only block for memcached

http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/i-only-block-for-memcached this is part of the reason that craigslist is fast too
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Selenium web application testing system

http://seleniumhq.org/ "Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

kittens inspired by kittens [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU kitten book narrated by weird 6 year old
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

February 11, 2009

Scaling Lucene and Solr

http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Scaling-Lucene-and-Solr/#d0e245 looks like a lot of good advice
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

February 10, 2009

CouchDB subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/CouchDB/ I had no idea there was a CouchDB subreddit. cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Impact of logging on MySQL’s performance

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/10/impact-of-logging-on-mysql%E2%80%99s-performance/ it's good to have validation of what I've believed for a long time!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

February 07, 2009

Towards more diversity of speakers at MySQL Conference and Expo

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/06/towards-more-diversity-of-speakers-at-mysql-conference-and-expo/ I noticed the same thing (the number of Sun speakers) when I first looked at the schedule
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 06, 2009

Taekwindow

http://taekwindow.sourceforge.net/ I have been missing this feature in Windows since forever... my old fvwm2 config had it for *years* before I found that it was in Gnome too
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Job Losses in Recent Recessions [chart]

http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/joblosses26091.gif yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

February 05, 2009

Lightroom Plugin Development: What To Do When a Hobby Becomes Work

http://regex.info/blog/2009-02-03/1134 look what happens when you create something people actually, you know... use and like
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Add-Art

http://add-art.org/ "replacing online advertising with art"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Air traffic tapes of Hudson plane crash released

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/1549.voice.recorder.tape/index.html sounds like they considered their options but had to ditch... those jets just don't glide very far with power off
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Monty Leaves Sun/MySQL

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-to-move-on.html congrats, Monty.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

February 04, 2009

HP releases netbook interface for Ubuntu

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/04/hp-releases-netbook-interface-for-ubuntu/ interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Masked Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon Sword - Denver News Story

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18637190/detail.html#- "Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword." That is awesome.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Soekris Engineering

http://www.soekris.com/ neat toys
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

February 03, 2009

Tim Olson's RV10 kit #170

http://www.myrv10.com/N104CD/index.html someday I need to make time to read the entire site
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites

http://randomfoo.net/2009/01/28/infrastructure-for-modern-web-sites this is so dead on, it's not even funny
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Hawaiian Vacation

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2009/02/hawaiian-vacation.html sounds like a good trip
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Please stand by

http://test-pattern.com/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

David After Dentist [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs "This is my 7 year old son who had an extra tooth removed last summer, 2008. I had the camera because he was so nervous before I wanted him to see before and after. " Holy Shit, that's funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

February 02, 2009

Open Source NG Databases

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/open-source-ng-databases-maili.html I'd like to see more of this discussion...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Usage of my Cell Phone

http://graphjam.com/2009/01/18/song-chart-memes-usage-of-my-cell-phone/ yup... so true.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Yahoo Shuts Down Publisher Network RSS Ads

http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-shuts-down-publisher-network-rss-ads-16406 FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Beginning Rock Climbing

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2009/02/02/beginning-rock-climbing/ "I decided this year that I was going to spend more time focusing on things I enjoy and less time obsessing over things I hate." Excellent...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

If Michael Phelps needs to smoke dope, what do the rest of us need?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/02/02/if-michael-phelps-needs-to-smoke-dope-what-do-the-rest-of-us-need/ "If Phelps needs to smoke dope, what do the rest of us need to get through the next decade or two?"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

The All New 1000HE Eee PC from ASUS

http://promos.asus.com/US/1000HE/ASUS/index.html looks like a response to the Samsung NC 10 mostly
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/ neat tool
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

February 01, 2009

on copying files « domas mituzas: vaporware, inc.

http://dammit.lt/2009/01/30/on-copying-files/ I've used some of these tricks for a while myself
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Google’s “My Maps” : Hidden Trove of Useful Treasures

http://regex.info/blog/2009-02-01/1132 I had no idea either...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Excellent P-47 landing [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVXV0bPTik indeed!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM