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The Pug Gets 15 More Minutes

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

My little pug movie is apparently still a hit on the ‘net. I was watching on of my favorite technology podcasts , CommandN on my I-pod in bed last night and was surprised when they mentioned RCS. Check it out (10 minutes and 50 seconds in to the show):

Last week, RCS was featured on Leo Laport’s blog HERE. I’ve been a fan of his for years and years and was floored when I started getting a ton if traffic from his site.

I’ve been averaging about 20,000 hits per day and pushing north of 30 GB per day.  All because of one little pug…

I’m Bored.

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Things are gonna change around here.

Back To Civilization

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

After some very expensive power outages (lost work days) and a 5 day Comcast outage, I’m back online at 7:31 pm PST. Sorry everyone for not answering e-mails but I’ll get to those as soon as possible.

The Spam Offensive

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Ok, it looks like maybe I’m not so crazy after all. Excluding the cluster this site resides on, I manage 13 Unix/Linux servers all of which process mail and since the end of September, spam has been going through the roof. I mean through THE ROOF. I am not alone. In a normal day, my Spam Assassin installations catch anywhere from 10,000-20,000 pieces of spam. Though I’m able to keep it out of people’s mail boxes, spam has a real cost.

For one, CPU power- it takes a bunch to perform bayesian analysis on each message and drop it into the appropriate bucket. Two, disk space. Most of my customers don’t want to see spam but I must leave every message on the server for at least 30 days in case the filter gets overzealous or they think they might have missed something.

Just on this blog alone, I’ve seen a huge explosion of comment spam. Where I normally get 100 spam messages a day, I’m now getting 350-500. Thank god for Askimet! or this site would have been shuddered long ago.

I wonder what the end game is for this situation as it cannot keep growing at this pace. Something’s gotta give…

Pics To Self

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Back when this site was called “Note To Self” (2001-2003), I had a user account on Textamerica to upload some of my cell phone pics. I was a beta tester for AT&T Wireless and had one of the first camera phones on the market so I already had the hardware. Some good memories here:

Highlights:

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Me at T-Moble- Damn, I was DA BOMB!

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My elevator reservation at the Harbor Steps. Bittersweet memories here but cool nonetheless.

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Lake Washington from United Flight 493 from Chicago

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Another shot of Lake Washington from the plane, this time with the 520 and I-90 bridges clearly visible

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The boss

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Grace is not pleased with the amount of time I’m spending on the computer working on this lame website. (sadly, this look has not changed in 3 1/2 years)

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Bentley is not pleased that I didn’t run this photo op through his agent first especially after the incident with the paparazzi just last week…

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Cannon Beach from Ecola Park

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My T-Mobile and for a short time office mate, Malai. We now work together again (yay).

You can see the whole Pics To Self gallery here (newest pics are first). Maybe I’ll start using this once I get a phone with a better camera. Stay tuned…

(via Tiff)

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