Remember the TP Amazon Grocery order I blogged about before? Here’s how it ended up. Don’t think I’ll use Amazon Grocery again. I went to Safeway yesterday.
Category Archives: Asides
dot info
Some days don't you want to just blacklist all of .info? More spam there than anything else except maybe .com or .be, and certainly a higher percentage than any other top-level domain.
Vista Jump
I'm installing Windows Vista on my laptop. Wish me luck. I got a free DVD at Gnomedex, so figured why not? Update: Upgrade failed (froze), going to try a clean install.
Darwin on Web 2.0
Darwin on Web 2.0: “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin
MySQL Counters
Check out this cool INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE feature in MySQL 4.1. This will make some logging code I have much easier and cleaner than it currently is.
Web 2.0 Band
I’m going to start a Web 2.0 band, thinking about calling it “The Standards.” Any other name ideas? Hat tip: Glenda.
Web 2.0 Myths
Om writes on The Myth, Reality & Future of Web 2.0 in a great article, and also takes a dig at my lack of Indian gastronomic experimentation.
To Ireland
I’m on my way back to Cork, Ireland once again to join the inimitable Donncha for his wedding. Posting may be light for a few days, or it may get heavier. One never knows.
Boston Herald
Dave Cohen wrote in that the Boston Herald is using WP for their Red Sox blog. Digging around it looks like they have quite a few blogs going.
General Comments
For the funding post, if you have any questions post them there, and if you have any general comments post them here.
Dell vs. Sun
The Sun Doesn’t Shine for Me, or why Dell is kicking Sun’s butt. I can attest to a similar experience, except that I gave up long before Jason did.
Features Don’t Matter
Why Features Don’t Matter Anymore. I think similar things when I hear “But CMS X has hundreds more features than Y! Why don’t we have more users?”
Bray on PHP
Tim Bray wonders about PHP. Answer: Worse is better. Applications evolve when (and if) they need to.
In Cincinnati
I’m in the Cincinnati airport, and they just announced an emergency. All of the stores have closed and the halls are empty, everyone has proceeded to the nearest exit. Except the people around me. I’m on a flight to New York, and apparently the blinking lights and alarms don’t don’t phase these folks. The desk attendent just announced they’re boarding zones 2 and 3. Okay, they just announced my zone, see you guys on the flip side. Update from Blacberry: Right after I got on the plane they made all those jaded New Yorkers evacuate like everyone else and they’ve stopped people from boarding the plane. Update 2: They seem to have fixed things and people are boarding again. I wonder what the problem was.
Wireless BBQ
I’m up in Austin to work with Andy for a few days on the new stats system for WP.com. He found this BBQ place (Pokey Joe’s) that offers free wifi with their brisket, and I think I’m in heaven. What more could you want?!
Rest in Peace
Norma Hageney was an amazing woman and grandmother, she carried an entire family with her integrity, passion, and faith. I’m lucky to have spent a lot of time with her growing up and picked up a few of her personality traits. Tomorrow I will help carry her.
Back Online
Sorry to folks that have had trouble getting to the site or sending me email the past few days, the server that hosts photomatt.net and mullenweg.com (and nothing else) has been down more often than up, and emails are coming in days late. They replaced the RAM which seems to have been the source of the problem. Now I just need to find someplace in NY with universal chargers so I can get my cells working again and I will be back connected to the civilized world. Update: Since the RAM replacement everything has been rock solid again. Knock on wood.
London Meetup Update
I’m here with Khaled and Podz at the Revolution Bar in Soho. We’ll be hanging out here into the night so come by if you fancy.
London Troubles
Geez, I should have stayed in Paris! When I arrived at my hotel in SoHo London last night around midnight I found out they had no record of my reservation from Orbitz and no rooms available. What makes this worse is my reservation for 4 nights had already been charged. Every hotel in town was booked solid for the night. Several hours later I found myself in a hotel waaaay out by Heathrow and now instead of exploring London I’m trying to clear things up, find a place to stay in town tonight, and catch up with work I was planning to do last night.
Consumating Bought
Consumating was bought, something I chatted with Ben Brown a while back about and thought was interesting. (Apparently Alex Muse saw us and also has some thoughts on the deal.) Mike Tatum (the guy who got me to work at CNET) writes about the acquisition here, and the comments are interesting as well. I think CNET will be judged a lot based on how this goes over the next year or so.