May 2009
45 posts
My desire to buy a 1978 El Camino SS is high.
May 31st
Big new feature release this morning -> http://bit.ly/1aiI8t <- Clearspring and Addthis now see over 500M uniques.
May 28th
ReadWriteWeb article hits NYTimes. “Clearspring Now Sees What Half of the Internet is Doing” -> http://bit.ly/yU1UC
May 28th
Still feeling miserable, maybe scotch will help.
May 27th
Once again, there are birds trapped in the ceiling at work.
May 26th
Locked myself out of the house. Just paid a locksmith $150 for about six minutes of work.
May 25th
I just had a brief video conference with @willmeyer while he was driving his car. Very nerdy, very dangerous.
May 24th
Hypermilage drivers gtfo.
May 24th
My friend Meredith is trying to force me to have a social life. I have reluctantly agreed.
May 23rd
Seven forty five, white on white.
May 23rd
I got to have a meeting outside. It’s a lovely day.
May 22nd
I have three options. #3 is the most dangerous but yet the nerdiest. I am conflicted.
May 22nd
Damn it, my homebox died overnight again. No shells to home!
May 22nd
Time to dust off the weber.
May 22nd
I give Adam more crap than anyone. He doesn’t deserve it.
May 22nd
Adam is being a huge jerk in my meeting. WTF!
May 22nd
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/gameday via @addthis<- You don’t need to click that, you just need to know D&D uses addthis.
May 21st
In early for some changes, took adam hahn’s parking space.
May 21st
Why does every exec quoted about cloud computing belittle and denigrate operations and sysops? Suck it two times, jerks!
May 20th
Could SOX really be dead? A whole lot of financial sector compliance consultants need to rethink their business plans.
May 20th
I feel like I should be using twitter to build my brand. Ross Lord, a leader in excellence.
May 19th
I heard Harry Pierson’s voice for the first time in fifteen years today. The internet is strange.
May 18th
From lou: http://bit.ly/DEiIV <- The sun is really big, and we are really small.
May 15th
It was all coming together so easily until I decided to test it.
May 15th
I have a question that is inappropriate for this forum.
May 14th
Watching Kathleen’s brother get it started for game 7.
May 14th
Now that Rackable has decided to use the name ‘SGI’, they need to bring back the weird desktops 02/Octane style.
May 14th
I need a day to read.
May 13th
I am at the data center in a much warmer shirt and much more comfortable shoes today. Hooray for planning ahead.
May 12th
I am wearing incorrect footwear for an afternoon in the data center. My toes are going to be very cold.
May 11th
There is no phrase that will not seem incredibly stupid once someone has tattooed it on their chest.
May 11th
I just did something that I thought would be hard, and it ended up being very easy. Worked on the first try. I’m waiting for it to break.
May 11th
Twisted my ankle making biscuits. The injury will not prevent a beer run to Westover Market.
May 10th
I have reduced my rate of work to merely 3 megacharlies. The week is basically over (except I’m working tomorrow)
May 9th
Watching David Lynch’s adaptation of Dune again. Still weird and awesome.
May 8th
Early morning config changes. Didn’t go super smoothly, but we’ll get there. I never want to touch a webserver or cache again.
May 7th
I missed the first goal of the Caps game while working. This is a metaphor for something.
May 7th
Metal + requirements docs.
May 7th
Why is tweetdeck using 1.13GB of virtual memory?
May 7th
Trying out Seesmic Desktop, now that it has FB integration.
May 5th
RT @rlabarca: Obama/Biden eating at Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington - my favorite place to get a hamburger: http://wtopnews.com/?nid=116& …
May 5th
Had dinner with my cousin, whom I haven’t spoken with in nine years. Mom told stories about being too hungover to teach elementary school.
May 4th
Swine flu shots: cheap whiskey, robotussin, bacon grease. I’m a marketing genius!
May 2nd
I am watching R. Kelly videos at work. Let me remind you that I am the king of R&B.
May 1st
I have learned more about caching in the past few days than I have ever wanted to know.
May 1st