Playing For Change

I’ve been lending a bit of a helping hand to my buddy Jessey getting the server for Playing For Change all set up properly. There’s a bit of magic going on to make everything work nice and smooth, but I think it’s mostly kosher now. This is a really great movement …

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Verizon FiOS FAIL

I’m fortunate in that I’m able to get Verizon’s FiOS service where I live. I’ve had it for a little over six months now, and it has been absolutely amazing. I have a 20Mbit symmetric connection, and it’s been basically rock solid. The one time prior to this …

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Why He’s The Boss

I had the very, very good fortune to get hooked up with just insanely good tickets to see Bruce Springsteen this past Thursday, courtesy of awesome roommate. I’d seen him before, but not since college. So, really, quite a long time.

In classic fashion, he and his …

Your Server Doesn’t Scale

I wanted to get up on a soap box and talk about servers a bit. Getting disclosure out of the way as it pertains to what I’m going to talk about here:

I work for (mt) Media Temple.
The views expressed here are mine, not my employer’s.
I set up the servers for the …

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Nothing like a good dinner

I had dinner with my friend Summer tonight at Beechwood in Venice. I really don’t see Summer often enough. She’s awesome. Every time we hang out, I walk away feeling happier about things, in a general sense, than I did when I showed up.
Given the pace we in the …

Information En Route

I know I said I was going to write here at least weekly. For the record, I really am going to try to hold myself to that. The reason I haven’t been posting diligently this week is that I’m staying busy writing an article that will outline a straightforward …

Hello, Blog

At long, long last, I have redone my blog. I’m not entirely sure when I lost interest in my old blog, but it’s been at least a year. The thing is, I actually do like writing. I think a lot of my boredom with it was that I was using a home-rolled CMS type thing [...]