December 2008
17 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Stereophonics (38)  MGMT (17)  The Libertines (14)  Counting Crows (11)  Faithless (10)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 29th
“Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!”
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Dec 23rd
: so the pope’s a bigot. didn’t see that coming
Dec 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
MGMT (17)  The Libertines (14)  Stereophonics (12)  Counting Crows (11)  Faithless (10)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 21st
just worked out what day it is.. hmmm
Dec 20th
maybe “Hi Richard,” was too informal.. no reply yet :( .. maybe he’s on holidays, or out of the office *hope*
Dec 18th
: if this MAKE takes any longer I’m going to die of boredom
Dec 16th
The Rockterscale - genius http://ping.fm/kCvw8
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
BBC - Radio Labs - The Rockterscale! →
The idea is totally crazy, but I imagine it could work, especially in a small venue and it would probably get a right kick out of the crowd. Awesome.
Dec 16th
Dec 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Bruce Dickinson (94)  Nickelback (65)  Pink Floyd (23)  Newton Faulkner (20)  MGMT (19)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 15th
“I don’t know what I’m talking about. If you work for me, you’re welcome to get...”
– http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/10.html
Dec 11th
4 tags
Annoying Email No.2
There’s a domain name I want, but someone is cybersquatting it. Which bugs me. I sent them an email offering $50 for the domain and received this in reply: We received your inquiry regarding the domain [domain name]. Unfortunately your offer was not sufficient to meet the owner’s asking price. If you are still interested in acquiring this domain, please respond to this email to...
Dec 10th
1 tag
Annoying Email No.1
I was having an issue with part of my Media Temple hosting today, they do this from time to time. I raised a support request, and they promptly replied and fixed the problem. The email I received from them was this: We have resolved an issue with the authentication code for the MTR command that may have caused you to get “Permission Denied” errors, despite giving the correct...
Dec 10th
Robert Peston on New Capitalism →
Robert Peston, who’s probably been the most insightful commentator of the current economic crisis has written a 6 page essay concerning the future. Seems to me that he’s saying the massive excess in spending by companies and individuals alike is going to have to stop. We’re going to need to get smaller, more agile, less frivolous and more innovative.. which is great, that’s...
Dec 9th
Bench Marking a Web Server
I’m working on a project where I need to bench mark a webserver. Find out at what point it falls over, which is a bit interesting. By webserver, I am also including the webservices that it hosts, the database that sits behind those webservices and other various bits, there’s a file server in there somewhere for good measure. I’m going to be using EC2, or a bunch of EC2...
Dec 3rd