2008

Peer1 CDN (Content Delivery Network) Up

We got OSDir setup with Peer1’s CDN today & I’m really pleased with the performance...

ServerBeach's Ram Hates Us

Note to self & hopefully a quick tip for all y’all: If your server at Serverbeach* is...

More For Realz

We got our own internets installed & operational today, plus a water cooler. With our wireless...

the view

luc’ster

More. I’m stuck in this office to be in range of our...

Office snaps.  More before pics than after really.

“… the level of productivity in France is above that of...”
— eroded? While I still think...

inevitable.cc

.cc is the new .com I just bought inevitable.cc I also have had stevemallett.cc for a while now.

Neighbors

An old friend has the offices next door to the new digs - Razor Creative

Worst Office Spaces & New Office Space

http://valleywag.com/388566/the-10-worst-workspaces-in-tech The above article is super as Inevitable...

New Services I'm Trying

1) Apple Time Machine w 1TB Time Capsule.  So far this is hell.  It just takes way to long to do the...

A handy adsense tip

If you don’t want adsense serving porn text link ads on your site consider not using...

Persistent Storage on AWS EC2

While hoping to get my invite to join the beta program Amazon Web Services has for persistent...

“Challenging the perception of American technology...”
— Dobbs

“The Giffen good is a strange beast from economic theory. ...”
— Is Search Advertising a Giffen...

Google Trends Using OSDir News

Ok, this is seriously cool. Google Trends incorporates OSDir news as benchmarks. I knew google...

Me winning the internet.

Alexa -was- screwed. I win the...

I told you Alexa was broken!  They changed it today. 

Inevitable Growth

Inevitable will be growing in personnel to two minds in a week and a bit. I’ll be adjusting to...

“Every incentive should have a counter-incentive to restrict...”
— Marc Andreeson on fixing human...

“Do you take into account the hidden cost when making...”
—  David Rusenko

OSDir on Alltop

Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop has OSDir as a linux news source.  That’s cool.

“Dallas City Hall has idled more than one-fourth of the 62...”
— In other words…. they...

ROI vs ROS

Screw ROI. I wonder what the best return on shitty computer equipment is. ROS? Return On Shit. The...

Ignoring Noise: Alexa vs Google...

May I suggest that while one should look at many sources of data to determine your progress when it...

Domain Theft via Hosted Mail

Update: It turns out my wife, with a fooworks.com address, triggered the admin password email.  ...

““The CTR on text ads declined about 60% in the last 2 months...”
— SEO Black Hat (link)

Delete My Account!

I’ve been getting some email requests lately: “Please delete my account.” Typical...

“Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in...”
— So it begins when the uncool...

“Entrepreneurs are, on average, significantly wealthier than...”
— Harvard Business School In...

R.O.M.

So, as a percentage of the time you spend at work, what percent would you say qualifies as...

“Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking...”
— The Atlantic

Chitika Called

Well, actually, they emailed. I had tried Chitika for what turned out to be less than 24 hrs as I...

Elance Project: Ended & Assessment

Below is the final new logo from my first elance outsourceing project.  I like it more than what I...

The final low res version of the new logo.

I'm a hero for fulfilling simple, nice,...

I get the nicest email sometimes: You mean you’re going to…. That’s very decent...

Elance update

I’m half way through my first outsourceing project. I have an active Elance project to do a...

Best New Tool

My newest, bestest GTD tool, is a simple wiki page divided up into an html table with three columns...

You're Going to Need a Bigger Boat...

theinfo.org: This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and...

Google Custom Search

Update: Not going to happen.  Search traffic, surprisingly, went down.  And…it wasn’t...

I love what Gawker has done with their masthead. It may or...

Business Cards

I ordered mini business cards today from Moo.  I actually ordered two versions.  One for hip folks...

“Running a startup is NOT about revenue...”
— Calacais *Ev is Evan Williams...

Mailing Lists

As someone with ad clients such as Intel, Microsoft, HP, etc my ad agency has asked me if I have a...

Tales From The Cockpit

I’ll be blogging about various activities of my newly formed company Inevitable, writing tips...

Outsourcing & Testing Elance

I’ve posted my first job at elance.com. One of two interesting tidbits in The Four Hour Work...

On the name

My company is called Inevitable, as in ‘the inevitable corporation’, for two reasons.  One was that...

Our logo/mascot Apple Seed.  I’m posting this so I...