The Woodwork

Dave told me his website was getting stumbled.
The reason is he made Ajaxian:

Congrats. I love Ajaxian even if you have to wonder with all the Web 2.0 koolaid they drink there what’s going to happen when they have a James Jones moment.
Dave, as your first user ever, you have to convince me why I need [...]

I paid for Amazon Prime because I’m rich and lazy. Besides, I spend about 15 hours a day at work, now.
This means whenever I have an urge to get a spatula, I just order it and it gets sent two day shipping at no charge. (Yes, I’ve actually done shit like that.)
But the new thing [...]

I woke up today and had four zits on my forehead.
That’s like two more than I had my entire high school years. What’s up with that?

OSCON proposals are due in 20 minutes. I submitted something just now. That’s like 10 minutes sooner than last time. I am improving.
The last talk new talk I gave was at OSCON so I had to come up with something new. Since I just changed jobs and actually spent the afternoon B.S.ing one [...]

Dave point out that some stuff going on at LinkedIn which led him to mention this Business 2.0 article.
No, I don’t want to talk about Sundays at the Mountain View Starbucks—I guess I used to go to the other Starbucks—I just want to nitpick two things I read in the article.
[My two nitpicks after the [...]

I’m trying to help someone in academia buy a unix workstation. The task involves intensive number crunching on very large (14 GB) data sets using packages like Maple, MatLab and SAS.
Here is a quote they got from their computing department:
There are two main UNIX servers:

Sun Microsystems V40z with 2 Dual Core 64-bit AMD 852 CPU’s [...]

[The views expressed in this blog are definitely my own and not those of anyone I work for, have worked for, or even get drunk with.]
I’m used to Xdebug. We use Zend Platform. Am I going to have to have a Rodney King moment?
Here is Derek’s take on it, and here is some guy from [...]

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