The Pasadena Marathon posted its course map today. After running the Long Beach, Big Sur and Los Angeles marathons, there is something really cool about running a course that is never more than 5 or 6 miles away from my house.
I’m a composting geek. We compost all of our non-meat table scraps, coffee grounds, and some yard waste and then dig it into our garden soil each year as a natural fertilizer. It’s always fun to see what “volunteers” pop up from that compost. After Halloween we composted our jack-o-lanterns, and this year our favorite volunteer is a pumpkin vine, complete with one little pumpkin.
I wish coffee plants would volunteer. Hmmm.
I wear flip flops 365 days a year and my Reefs need replacing after 18 months of near-constant use. I ordered some Tevas from Zappos.com yesterday at 2 PM. I paid for two day shipping, but because I missed the “1 PM ship the same day cutoff”, I didn’t expect to see them until Thursday.
Guess whose doorbell just rang? UPS just dropped off my new flips less than 20 hours after I ordered them. That’s ridiculous! Do they always ship this fast? I may never buy shoes in a store again, especially because most stores don’t carry my size 14/15 anyway.
Saw this clever ad for Ruby on Rails jobs over on notes from a messy desk. For non-Rubyists, the ad is formatted to look like Ruby source code, though they probably intended for the # at the end of the second line to start the third line - in Ruby, that starts a comment.
Hat tip to Swivel for speaking programmer.
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One thing that has annoyed me about my MacBook Pro is that, by default, “tab” skips past select elements (combo boxes) on web pages. Luckily its not that hard to fix.
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This one hit me even before Mark Cuban’s post (3 Business Ideas).
Stiles’ family vacations generally aren’t complete without at least one visit to an emergency room or urgent care facility. In the last couple of years we’ve needed them for ear infections, strep throat, bad bee stings, and the latest, six stitches over my right eye from a surfing accident.
I want to send a text message to a service that automatically knows where I am based on the GPS location of my cell phone. To find the closest ER, I would text “ER” to the service, and it would send back directions to the closest ER.
I’d also use it to find Peet’s, Starbucks, gas stations, etc. Wouldn’t that be slick?
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Simon Willison posted the notes he took at the Carson Workshops Future of Web Apps Summit. Talk about a great speaker lineup… Joshua Schachter from Deli.cio.us, Cal Henderson from Flickr, Tom Coates from Yahoo!, Ruby on Rails guru David Heinemeier Hansson, Mint’s Shaun Inman, Andrew Shorten from Adobe, Ryan Carson with DropSend, and Steffern Meschkat from Google Maps. Wish I coulda been there.
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Dilbert gathers software requirements from a not-too-helpful user. Too funny.
I didn’t install FeedDemon 2.0 beta 1 right away because the current version (1.6) worked so well for me. Why upgrade an app that does everything you need?
I installed the beta today and found one feature I absolutely love - Unread Feed View. A little button on the side bar makes it easy to toggle between Folder View (old style view which shows all your feeds as icons, even ones that don’t have unread items) and Unread Feed View, which only shows icons for feeds with unread items. I don’t think I’ll ever leave Unread Feed View. Before this beta, I had to hunt through a long (and growing longer) list of feed icons to find the ones that had changed. Now I get a short little list of only the feeds that have changed. You gotta love features you never knew you needed and later can’t imagine living without.
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How does the busiest web site on the planet squeeze maximum performance out of Apache? Check out the talk notes from Michael Radwin’s ApacheCon 2005 session titled Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo!.
Here’s the excerpt:
Since 1996, Yahoo has been running Apache HTTP Server on thousands of servers and serving billions of requests a day. This session reveals the secrets of how Yahoo gets maximum performance out of minimal hardware by tweaking configuration directives and hacking the source code. Radwin will cover topics such as reducing bandwidth costs, extensible logfile format and rotation schemes, dumping core gracefully, and how to avoid the dreaded MaxClients, Max/MinSpareServers, StartServers configuration nightmare.