Archive for February, 2007

Apparently, gadgets are huge: Google Map – 4,861,113 PacMan v2.0 – 8,114,344 DIGG – 3,228,599 My IP – 1,063,244 Wikipedia – 27,314,972 Countdown – 2,076,028 Online Second Life Friends – 1,396 Free Sudoku Puzzles – 4,450,349 Memory Game – 647,151 In that spirit … have some retro fun:
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Love it, love it, love it: I tell you, there’s pure genius in simplicity, if you have the guts to totally sell out and pursue it. apple, iphone, ad, tv, john koetsier
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I just upgraded bizhack to WordPress 2.1, so if you notice any odd squirreliness, that’s why. Better backend Safari compatibility and updated security were the two reasons to upgrade … that and the fact that WP 2.1 is supposed to be a much stingier MySQL user (more optimized, better queries, fewer queries per page)....
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MediaTemple is updating GridServer … the grid computing architecture that this blog and many other sites are running it. It’s been a long hard road for MT with plenty of problems. In reverse chronological order: December 2006: MediaTemple GridServer: #2 December 2006: MediaTemple: starting to rock again November 2006: MediaTemple does the right thing...
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OK, so I finally watched Snakes on a Plane … on an airplane. The guy next to me saw that I had a laptop and pulled out a stack of movies. Since he offered the DVD, I could hardly refuse and keep my geek cred. The movie did pretty much suck, unfortunately. But it...
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This is absolutely classic. Wonderful: apple, vista, os x, tiger, funny, john koetsier
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Just so you know, I am who I say I am. Really. You can take my word for it. identity2.0, openID, john koetsier
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Obvious Corp is is selling Odeo. What worries me is whether or not audio I’ve recorded there will survive the transition. Like my wife’s grandfather’s last phone message. Like my my daughter’s thoughts on the Narnia move. Ev says they’re selling it lock, stock, and barrel: To clarify, what we’re talking about is selling...
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Saw something funny while using Mac OS X Mail the other day: Notice how many attachments are in the email at the top. I guess I’ve never had enough before to see this particular uncounted count. mac, os x, mail, attachments, funny, john koetsier
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Just came back from a conference in Asheville, NC … up in the Smoky Mountains. It was freezing cold … -10 Celcius with windchill … so I only got out of the hotel once, really, and took these shots as I wandered the town. Click for a larger image of each:
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vista, voice recognition, perl, funny, john koetsier
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I came in from NC last night. Stepping out of Sea-Tac airport was great: wet but warm. (North Carolina sort of feels like the North Pole right now … I was in Asheville and it was about -10 Celcius, with a killer wind.) Good to be back … will be posting some pix here...
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March 22 note added: There was a DMCA takedown notice filed against this post a few days back. I’ve since spoken to the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably.
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I’m in Asheville NC for a conference and it’s bloody cold here … colder than Vancouver, Canada which is (roughly) where I’m from. Whoda thunk you could come at least 1500 klicks south, closer to the sun, and still be colder? Live and learn!
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Backing up a couple years worth of mail today … 2.59 gigabytes of stuff. incredible. mail, backup, john koetsier
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