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Amazon S3 down.

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Hey everyone, remember how the Internet is this big decentralized network, with multiple redundancies so that if one piece fails, we can route around it and minimize the impact? It’s really a great way to set up a network.
So stop fucking it up.
Amazon’s S3 service offers cheap storage so that you can host pictures, videos, [...]

On the relationship between the Internet and its users.

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

For the past 10 years there’s been a growing trend towards posting personal information online, relying on services that you don’t own and have no control over, reliance on being able to do things for free, and getting upset when a company acts like a company is expected to instead of a moral emissary of [...]

Note to Congress

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Um, we have an executive branch that has ignored the constitution, has spied on citizens without warrants, admits to torturing prisoners of war that it’s held for years without trial and has made a mockery of everything that the US stands for, and you’re having hearings about steroid use in baseball? What. The. Fuck?
Pelosi, you [...]

Sun buying MySQL

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Does Sun’s takeover of MySQL mean that I’m not going to have to deal with this anymore?

mysql> select count(*) from logs;
+———-+
| count(*) |
+———-+
| 15945539 |
+———-+
1 row in set (15 min 38.04 sec)
mysql> truncate logs;
Query OK, 14383750 rows affected (3 hours 11 min 15.98 sec)

3 hours to delete 15 million rows. Really? I’d think that’s a [...]

Restaurant pet peeves

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

A list of things that I’ve experienced at restaurants that have really pissed me off recently:

Just because a table has two dimensions doesn’t mean it’s ok to put 4 chairs at it. This especially pisses me off in Japanese restaurants where you typically get a bunch of small dishes that fill up a standard two [...]

Dear JDL, please just shut the fuck up.

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

A week or so ago, Will Smith made a comment that was taken out of context:

Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good.
“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’,” said Will. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he [...]

Enough with the wacky turkey recipes.

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

While it’s fun to smoke turkeys, deep fry them, wrap them in bacon, and cook them in lava, please remember that the best damned part of the turkey is the skin. And any method of preparation which makes the skin inedible is nothing less than heresy.
Turduckens, however, are allowed, and encouraged.

How not to get your point across.

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

I just watched this video of 9/11 truthers interrupting a live taping of Bill Maher’s show:Gee, I wonder why people think you’re crackpots. Did anyone ever think, even for a second, that if you wanted to swing people over to your side this might have have been a bad way to go about it? I’m [...]

“Oktoberfest” in Big Bear

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

So I’m sitting in the Marina park in San Diego yesterday, where fall has finally hit, rendering the temperature a balmy 72 degrees, reading a book when I get a call from my friend Carrie, inviting me to go up to Big Bear with them to go to their Oktoberfest celebration.
What does Big Bear have [...]

Rachel Ray Must Be Stopped.

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

I’d seen talk of this in the comments on food blogs, but I didn’t actually believe it until now: Rachel Ray has her own brand of olive oil. Of course this was the natural progression, I’m amazed it didn’t come out sooner. Seriously, are her 15 minutes up yet? I refused, and I [...]

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