EGOPOLY

I’m actually not sure if this is a parody or if it’s real.

http://www.jcorporate.com/html/products/productsfm.html

edgeio-key: 36f670203b7c07ba0927d378e0a51329c0d27207

I’m thinking of selling my powerbook. Is $500 a good price?

(really I just want to see if edgio.com works).

It’s about time this started to happen. Om Malik wrote about a bunch of open source projects that can replace big-ticket telecom iron. Of particular interest to me is the open source load balancer that Affinity Networks is using. Need to find out more.

Update: ultra monkey zxtm IPVS

Most people in a corporate environment use

spreadsheets for maintaining lists, and mail

them around. It’s a behavior that cries out

for collaborative software. I’ve never seen a

very compelling solution, but numbler looks pretty

promising.

More accessible and live than Quickbase, though it

is less structured and more free-form. Which is

a good thing for a lot of situations.

John Dvorak is a master of irony.

Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows

[Emphasis is mine.]

Read the article. It’s hilarious.

Apple tried to parody it, but it’s hard to parody something so… unhinged.

At the first internet flame out startup I worked at, we all had real IP addresses on

our machines. No firewall. Just us and the router and the big

bad Internet. No one ever bothered us. That was back when you could leave

your front door open in the summer and go away for a

week, at least on the net. We had some insane bandwidth too:

I think we had 3 or 4 DS-3 circuits.

Even our production servers where on the same subnet.

One time we were playing Duke Nukem and took down our own

site. After that we would physically disconnect the network

hub our machines were on to play.

We knew some people over at ATG on the other side of the

river (in Boston), and they were running their X servers with

xhost +. We sent them a screen shot of their screens, and

they stopped doing that.

Good times.

Yep.

Good times.

OK, Google blog search is rapidly becoming useless.

I just did a search for “kayak.com” to see what blogworld

thinks about our new CMO hire. The top 6 entries are all

fake blogs. They are all like 2 days old with a bunch

of generated SEO-spamming crap text and links

to kayak and a few other travel web sites.

How hard is it to make google blog search IGNORE

blogs that are less than a week old? Or have only 2 entries?

It’s like they’re not even trying!

The sad thing is that most of them are on blogger.com,

so clearly the human detector thing has been defeated.

They released a new version of Camino this week, finally calling it “1.0.”

I used to use Camino quite a bit. It is very well integrated into OS X, and

I especially like that it uses the Apple keychain for keeping passwords

vs. it’s own private thing. But as with all browsers, I keep getting

pulled back into FireFox. Those extensions (especially bookmark sync

and web developer tools) are just too valuable to ignore. And it’s

too annoying to keep switching browsers.

But Camino is so fast. It’s fast like Safari, but doesn’t have Safari’s

weird incompatibilities. So I’m back to using it for a while, at least when I

am just wasting time browsing vs. doing work web site programming.

Java:

        try {
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        }

Ruby:

        sleep(1)