So, I have to go out and and admit before blog and everybody, that I, Jason Adam Young am a social networking hypocrite.
I’m a theoretically learned Computer Science graduate who cut his career teeth in that field colloquially known as “IT”, add to that I’m a classic introvert, and my career has guided me [...]
I use a combination of monit process monitoring, simple icmp checks, and a lot of log checking to monitor most of our extension.org systems infrastructure. It isn’t fancy, and it’s not quite the visibility I want, but it’s good enough for where things are at right now. Most of proper monitoring isn’t [...]
I can’t tell you enough that how glad I was to read that stood up for the freedom of expression and diversity of viewpoint in your exchange with Senator Lieberman. While I would find the message of groups that have ties or even sympathies for terrorists completely objectionable, particularly when those messages [...]
I’ve spent a lot of hours in my life watching the movie Field of Dreams. It’s one of a handful that I own. It’s one of a very few that I’ve seen over and over again. Suffice to say, I know the movie, the characters, the themes pretty well.
Which is why [...]
Cory Doctorow
…Once you get past the vanity of knowing exactly how many copies have been made, and find the zen of knowing that the copying will take care of itself, you’ll attain dandelionesque contentment.
Brent Simmons
I love it when TV People — newscasters, analysts, politicians — say they were “on the ground” somewhere. It’s a good [...]
So… after a little more than a year with my first digital SLR - I decided the take the plunge and go from a camera that was just beyond my ability to one that is WAY beyond my ability. Hopefully I’ll give this one a bit more time to catch up to it.
There [...]
Sometimes the only way to express one’s opinion about their experience is using plastic dinosaurs
I do want to get the test religion, and I think it could be really useful, particularly in libraries, but I seriously have yet to see good QC out of tests at the small application level, other than in data transformation [...]
While trying to run Windows update with my VMWare Fusion-based XP install:
And when running the debugger:
I’m sure it might possibly be something I’ve done to it, either with the Script Debugger install from Office Two-thousand-whatever-it-is or something else. I just find it a bit humorous.
So on March 15th (well, March 16th UTC and EDT) - the public facing website that I share in the responsibility for suffered an outage.
It’s a classic example of a cascaded failure - particularly a failure of human judgement (mine). I spend a lot of my time in my job [...]
Make default feed format pluggable
milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.6.
Format of feed (RSS, Atom) should be an option
milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.6.
Tune in 3 months later for “Milestone changed from 2.6 to 2.7″ Y’all come back, hear?
We interrupt your internet with this important message.
There is no Web 2.0 It’s just the Web (there’s really no web either, there’s just data, but that’s a separate subject altogether) But if you feel good about calling it Web 2.0 - that’s fine. Heck, I do too sometimes.
There is no [...]
Keeping around a half-million spam emails in a single folder? Terrible idea.
After seeing Anne’s Twitter about problems at the Georgia Dome - I turned to Google wondering what might be going on. I wondered if this was some current event, or like, maybe issues with the facility itself being talked about during the basketball game there.
The Wikipedia article for the Georgia Dome ALREADY HAD INFORMATION [...]
In addition to being a systems manager (and customer support, and a manager, and an information architect, and all the other hats most of all of wear in small engineering teams at Universities and startups). I sometimes do development - currently almost all rubyonrails. The core application I’m responsible for is [...]
From Erica Sadun via The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
10:55. Salesforce: Proving even an iPhone can be boring.
I have nothing else to add.
Twitter of the Day from Craig Hockenberry, while following the iPhone Dev event:
I bet it’s quiet in the Android offices right about now…
Note, at the time I write this Apple hasn’t said yet how/if they’ll control distribution. The dev tools will kick butt, but that distribution control may be the Android advantage.
Interesting, [...]
In an interview with Fortune:
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
(via: John Gruber)
During lunch today, I turned on the television (a pretty rare event around here) - and started flipping through the channels, when I caught a broadcast of “The Tim Russert Show” on MSNBC.
I’ve always been impressed with Russert, and I was pretty impressed by Tim’s guests too. And I was fascinated [...]
Dear Time Warner Cable,
So, I went to your corporate site to check out again your Digital Phone service? Just to see the latest pricing and what your service offering is?
Yeah, I was browsing the feature page - and I’m guessing you really could use an update of the way you manage your [...]
So, in the next few days, you’ll have to be under a technical rock to not know that Google has partnered with the Cleveland Clinic on medical records access for patients and care providers.
I imagine that a lot of the reaction that I’ll be seeing in my aggregator will be a lot like Fred [...]
