Dead Man Eating is a weblog dedicated to documenting the last meals of death row inmates. Morbidly fascinating. There seems to be a lot of fried chicken. The weblog also includes things people have sent in as what they would have as their last meal, which generally seems to be enough food to feed a small village.

Staff Must Wash Hands and a story of propietary soap.

Mr Gruber has left Joyent to focus on Daring Fireball full-time, and for all the right reasons. I finally got to meet him a few times this year, and I have every confidence he will be very successful in this endeavor.

Brent Simmons has an interesting post on feature requests and bug reports.

I shaved my head. Just trying out something new.

Mark Pilgrim has started blogging again.

50 Reasons Why People Aren't Using Your Website

Is HD merely trojan horse for DRM?

Danah Boyd on Myspace – Identity Production in a Networked Culture.

There is some joker wannabe hacker pretending to me and asking others for sensitive information. Here are some tell-tale signs: IMing from a misspelled version of my IM addresses, like “saxmat02”; emailing from a gmail account with my name; using bad English (more than I normally do); asking for passwords, etc. These are all things I’d never do. If you ever have any doubt that the person you’re talking to might not be me, just call me on my cell or use one of the other contact methods here.

It is amazing Ping-O-Matic has handled as much traffic as it has thus far, but it really wasn’t conceived with these levels even imagined. It hasn’t had a good update since it was doing 20-30 reqs/second. Time to rip it out and start from the ground up. I’ll blog about it again when the new system is ready.