Category: photo

08/21/07 09:05 - 66ºF - ID#40666

Visited some old friends...

10 terabytes of storage... 12 processors...

Now I have a sad 533mhz Mac :(

My iPhone has a faster processor then my Mac!

But actually I mostly don't notice how slow it is, except when I run unit tests, those take about 15 seconds to start up versus about 2 or 3 on my laptop.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

08/21/07 12:15 - 60ºF - ID#40648

My Project

So, the project that I've been working on the past couple weeks is up.

DailyClimber

It's a site that sells one camping or climbing item per day at a really good price. Sort of like [link="http://woot.com"]woot.com[/link] (woot is not my site)

Let me know if you check it out and it looks broken (an all too likely possibility)?

jim writes at 11:58:13 08/21/07 - Comment #22759: I am not sure what they are either...

fellyconnelly writes at 11:47:17 08/21/07 - Comment #22754: I don't think that Trango MaxCams wear underwear in public either. but then i don't really know what a trango maxcam is.

tinypliny writes at 01:17:59 08/21/07 - Comment #22729: You are most welcome! LMK if you need more omega testing. :)

jim writes at 01:12:34 08/21/07 - Comment #22728: Thanks, Tinypliny, I am fixing the links back to the store and touching up a few other places!

tinypliny writes at 01:05:17 08/21/07 - Comment #22726: Gosh so many spelling mistakes and omissions! And that too on correction-fluid day! Appalling!

tinypliny writes at 01:03:41 08/21/07 - Comment #22725: The email and rss links are fine too. But there is no way to click back to the home page of the from the checkout page. If a patron chacges their mind and wants to view the absobing Britney snippet again, the only option is to click the back button of the browser. How about adding a linkback to the homepage behind the title graphic of "Dailyclimber". Just a thought.

tinypliny writes at 12:56:36 08/21/07 - Comment #22723: Okay, your first beta tester is here. I clicked on everything clickable on that page. It works fine.
- No dead/broken links
- Google checkout works fine
- The interface is clean and intuitive. If I had the faintest idea what Trango MaxCams were, I might be interested in checking them out at this dealer's simply because of the uncomplicated navigation. :)
- The company "about" page leads to the first page of a post in a product forum.
- The company link itself links to the forum. Nice touch.
- The ever-so-tempting Trango MaxCams advertised at $254.99 are actually $282.30 after taxes.
- Since I need to survive on the bottom of the hillock at Ellicott Street, I fake-ordered 5 of these awesome whatever-cams and the change registered correctly at checkout.

Anything else you need this beta tester to checkout? :)

james writes at 12:47:45 08/21/07 - Comment #22719: SInce the site is up and running, we are celebrating with wine.

Vinos Sin-Ley is freakin delicious.

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Category: photo

08/20/07 07:54 - 60ºF - ID#40642

Maybe a Repeat

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: internet

08/17/07 09:19 - 71ºF - ID#40601

Social Graph

Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal

and memcached

fame) is starting an intriguing attempt at freeing your social life from the clutches of MySpace and Facebook. White paper:

He wants to take your network of friendships that you've defined on the web, and instead of tying that in to a particular website, make it open for any website to use. If you signed up to MyCoolNewSite.com (for example), and plugged in your access token or whatever, it would tell you which of your friends from other sites are on this new one, and you could instantly get going.

Instead of being tied to just the huge social sites, you could participate in a world of targeted, rich, local and interest sites. Estrip would know about your friends (if you let it), and you could always count on not missing anyone or having to reenter all your info everywhere, or bugging your friends to sign up for every new thing.

It would all just happen, decentralized and under your control.

I love Flickr

but I hate that my photography network of contacts is bound up in it and I can't spill that over to other places. I love Estrip, but feel like it's maybe tucked away from the rest of my online life instead of being the center of my personal presence on the web.

Facebook (Flickr, MySpace, etc) right now is a walled off corner of the Internet, like AOL used to be. It's nice and clean and usable - but who wants to be living inside AOL 2.0? It is pulling everything in like a black hole.

The internet is meant to be messy and glorious. Why shouldn't you or I set the boundaries as we see fit?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: music

08/16/07 11:57 - 75ºF - ID#40587

Electric Six

Oh man oh man I can't wait to go see these guys live some day.

Make sure to at least watch until the special effects start.

Too bad their tour doesn't come close to here:

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: geek

08/15/07 06:10 - 76ºF - ID#40563

Compiling

Too bad we use dynamic languages at work now...

used by CC license, credit:

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Words: 19
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: politics

08/14/07 09:32 - 73ºF - ID#40545

BOMBS ZOMG ZOMG TERRISTS

image copyright by Cory Doctrow

Used under license via CC

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: video

08/14/07 06:54 - 76ºF - ID#40542

Bush vs Zombies

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: internet

08/10/07 03:58 - 80ºF - ID#40477

Denial of Service

So, I've been working on and frustrated by this site that I've been working on, and I thought it was ready to launch last weekend, but it's been under a constant denial of service attack for three days now, I only noticed that that was the reason for the slowness and glitches last night.

I've never had this happen before so I didn't think to look for it sooner. Someone apparently really hates my client.