Polling, Headlines Per Day, System Upgrade
As a consequence of a disk space shortage, the Syndic8 poller has been running on an irregular basis lately.
Recent Posts
Web Services Evangelist in Europe
I have a job opening for a Web Services Evangelist in Europe. The idea candidate would be based in Germany, the UK, or France, would have an impressive techn...
Fixed Bug with Compressed Feeds
I recently fixed a bug which made it impossible to submit a gzipped feed to Syndic8.
Better Category Browsing
I have optimized the Syndic8 Category Browser — it is not longer dog-slow (sorry, all fast dogs). I did some database tuning, and I used SmartCache to reduce...
Weekend Wackiness
I spent most of the weekend at Chris Pirillo‘s Gnomedex conference; I met a lot of great people, put some faces behind the names, and had a really good time....
Seattle Port Authority Sucks
After an uneventful Alaska Air flight from Reno to Seattle (and a nice Mount St. Helens flyby), we landed early only to learn that the jetway was broken and ...
Burt Rutan’s Rule
While surfing around using Amazon’s new A9 site, I found this great quote from Burt Rutan:
Amazon Web Services Release
We rolled out the new release of the Amazon Web Services today. This release includes the E-Commerce Service and a beta of the Alexa Web Information Service.
Google Tracking
G-Metrics is really cool, and as far as I know it is the only site which uses a Google API Key as a login name!
Good Links
A few thing that have caught my eye in the past couple of days: