April 2008
26 posts
Rackspace applies for a $400 million IPO [Ipo] →
Managed-hosting service Rackspace has filed with the New York Stock Exchange to raise $400 million in an initial public offering. Investors Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and…
Apr 30th
Viacom offers $10 million to buy music blog... →
A tipster tells us Hype Machine founder Anthony Volodkin has a “$10 million Viacom offer floating around.” Hype Machine, a website which aggregates music uploaded to blogs, has grown 125…
Apr 30th
watching a vikings sports center commercial being filmed on our floor
Apr 28th
Is dreaming about work to much, time for a vaca.
Apr 28th
Working on my friendfeed while watching the NFLD Draft traffic pick up.
Apr 27th
Report: Google looking to buy Digg "much sooner... →
BoomTown’s Kara Swisher reports that Digg is very much still for sale. Google, sources tell Swisher, is the “odds-on favorite” to buy Digg “much sooner than later.” The social news site,…
Apr 25th
$450 annual fee thanks but no thanks amex.
Apr 24th
Is drinking Fiji water in support of the day after Earth day
Apr 23rd
HP Upline Storage Service Still Down →
HP is working to resolve technical problems that forced it to suspend its new online storage service, HP Upline, just 10 days after its launch. HP spokesperson Sheila Watson told Network World that…
Apr 22nd
Change Your Work Hours to Get More Done →
One of my favorite childhood authors, Roald Dahl, had a very specific work routine. “It suits me to start rather late,” he said in an interview with Todd McCormack. “I start at 10…
Apr 22nd
Animoto - Scaling Through Viral Growth →
Animoto is a very neat Amazon-powered application. Built on top of Amazon EC2, S3, and SQS, the site allows you to upload a series of images. It then generates a unique, attractive, and…
Apr 21st
BBQ time
Apr 20th
Disney virtual theme park closing -- wait, how do... →
If any media concern seemed destined to prosper in the business of virtual worlds, it was surely Disney. Its Virtual Magic Kingdom, created as a one-off to promote Disneyland’s 50th…
Apr 19th
Scaling Mania at MySQL Conference 2008 →
The 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo has now closed, but what is still open for viewing is all the MySQL scaling knowledge that was shared. Planet MySQL is a great source of the goings on: …
Apr 19th
Excited to be heading home.
Apr 18th
Want to work for ESPN.com and are an exceptional ops person? http://tinyurl.com/3fkxk6
Apr 18th
last day @ 4th and Mad :(
Apr 17th
Cheesecake factory for desert
Apr 17th
Yum tsingtao
Apr 17th
Switching to PST
Apr 14th
I am pretty sure “comic book guy” is sitting next to me on the plane. Good thing these seats are huge :(
Apr 14th
Heading to SEA
Apr 14th
defining what capacity modeling means for us..
Apr 10th
Google App Engine can't handle demand for Google... →
The sign-in page for Google’s new App Engine platform apparently runs on App Engine — and ran out of it’s server allocation this morning, triggering the error message above when a tipster…
Apr 8th
Amazon.com's grid-computing service goes offline... →
A number of servers running Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud service, which provides pay-by-the-hour computation, went offline this morning from 2 to 3:30 a.m. EC2 is one of Amazon’s…
Apr 7th
buzz phrase of the day; “Last Mile Acceleration” aka gzip
Apr 7th