Archive for January, 2007

The spectacura has died.

My old car has died. The spectacura went out in an impressive dukes of hazard barrel-roll off a cliff. It will be missed.

Update: I gave this car away several months ago and I wasn’t the one driving. I’m just sad to see my old car get totaled.

All persons present when the [...]

Agile Open Northwest

I will be attending Agile Open Northwest January 30th and 31st. If you’ll be in Portland, OR then and would like to meet, let me know.

Chewing Extension Cords

I’ve just added more non-sense to my daily feeds… from Things My Boyfriend Says is this gem.

Update: After actually reading more than the bunny rabbits entry, the site might not be safe for work.

Bunny rabbits. e: I’d get a bunny if they weren’t so stupid. me: [...]

Jobster CEO asks: What should a CEO’s blog be?

I think a CEO blog should be natural and professional or non-existent. Seth Godin gives us a non-blogging example:

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, and I think the standards for a multimillionaire CEO announcing a major new venture ought to be pretty high. When you should stop [...]

Need a cheap MapReduce? Amazon EC2 and Hadoop is your answer.

It’s time to re-examine those long running batch jobs. Could you partition the data to allow for MapReduce? I bet you can. I know I’ve always wanted an affordable way to fire up 30 servers and run MapReduce operations against giant datasets, it’s confirmed; I’m a dork.

Tom White sent [...]