what are #regions doing in this code, when I TOLD YOU NO.. #REGIONS.. EVER!! http://tinyurl.com/dkjca8

rt @lazycoder holy crap, there's a D100??? http://tinyurl.com/ct48jv

updating our NOC List http://tinyurl.com/cdubbq

ah, so it looks like Google produces unique OpenID strings per website. Just FYI, if you're trying to log in to serverfaul

and so the meta-questions begin.. <facepalm>

serverfault.com private beta begins! password: alt.sysadmin.recovery http://tinyurl.com/d3lzhv

do not attempt to beatbox battle this dude http://tinyurl.com/de8du7

Will Code for Green -- as in, Green Planet -- $10k coding contest http://is.gd/vtxN

For me, Apple was never the same after the Mac entered the picture. Something was lost.

rt @stefinraleigh: What kind of man owns his own computer? http://bit.ly/iiuSb

trebuchets are harsh mistresses http://tinyurl.com/cy44sa

"rap chop" featuring Vince http://tinyurl.com/cy96a5

"The Web 2.0, Ruby on Rails hipster crowd may move on to the next flavor of the week.." http://is.gd/voE0

twilight.. with cheeseburgers http://tinyurl.com/cmlcvh

it looks like switching to 100% Hitachi (aka IBM aka Lenovo) hard drives might have cleared up our pernicious RAID array issues, finally

The Twitter Approval Matrix http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/56103/

I know I've linked the developer auto-tune multiple times now, but that has to be one of my favorite all time videos.. so flippin' great

every time we work on the stackoverflow CSS we call it the *CSS es es es es es.. es.. es...* now http://www.vimeo.com/3718294

Google Ad Manager is possibly the most confusing and error-prone Google app I have ever had the displeasure of using.. sheesh

via @jzy the tyranny of experts-exchange http://skitch.com/jackcheng/bpmpn/ee

wow, so openx, even on a very beefy ubuntu server VM, was a total loss for stackoverflow. dare I say.. fail? #openx

somehow I have a different Google AdSense password than my Google GMail password.. Google keeps insisting they're both the same "account"

"Just removing all the constants allowed us to improve the performance by almost 2x." LOLCODE

PHP: it is worse than you can possibly imagine. http://tinyurl.com/d2yhl5

this is great, though, because it means I get to use my GIANT SPINNER O' BLAME! (spins... arrow stops). A winner is... you!

he's all like "we'll give it 2gb of ram and 4 cpus" and I'm all like, "you don't understand, openx is written in PHP" so.. yeah.

currently asploding our virtual linux ad server with openx installed. I told @superdalgas to install a PHP accelerator, but noooooo..

sort of regretting the no-www choice because it causes full cookie submission to ALL subdomains. :(

ooh, moderate safesearch FAIL. wow. O_o

Guido van Rossum is even crankier than I am http://tinyurl.com/dfz9os

The average number of characters in most domain names is 11 http://is.gd/uYt2

what is the world coming to when @SaraJChipps offered the best potential solution to my url-shortening scenario? That's crazy talk!

trying to formulate an algorithm for collapsing a long URL legibly

Well I guess it's time for me to mail in this super secret VHS tape I've been holding on to... http://is.gd/uXqV

as responsible parents, we are hooking @rockhardawesome on the 'meth early in life.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simethicone

"I can honestly state that Windows 7 makes Windows Vista look like a bad dream by comparison" http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_rc.asp

"Eventually, all applications will believe they're the only applications in the world. And they'll be right."

reborn dolls scare me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll

there's an American Stonehenge? I had *never* heard of this.. http://is.gd/tJH6

brazilian satellite hackers http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom

this max raabe stuff is hilarious -- song covers in a 1930s-esque style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ6zkW1khfw

it's completely retarded that backups in SQL Server include the indexes, too, when they're built from the data anyway, and take up 50% space

"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared."

degaussing a CRT monitor http://www.flickr.com/photos/dansdata/3467498544/in/photostream/

rt @hmxcasey Tom Hanks deserves an oscar for selling the line "MY GOD... it's an ancient Illuminati threat." with a straight face

I am gonna have to choke a bitch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pklq_ShnbA

hah! Night Owls win! Suck on THAT ONE, Early Risers!! http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/24/sleep-night-owls.html

hah! Night Owls win! Suck on THAT ONE, Early Risers!! http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/24/sleep-night-owls.html

next week's Rock Band DLC, the full Jane's Addiction album, is gonna be nuts on guitar http://www.rbdlc.com/news/?p=1127

rt @encosia more aggravating JavaScript hacks http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-javascript-for-hackers-1/

the number of "fix PC errors!" domains advertising on adwords is just staggering; blocking them all is a pain

rt @dansdata Smart cat doors, then and now: http://is.gd/rxBA and http://is.gd/56SC

world of warcraft on iPhone. Done through streaming recompressed PC data. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldw9wJXJNnI

young people have endless time to debate the finer points of how white they can make their whites, and how none more black their blacks

you think your development conditions are bad? http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2007/03/when-offshoring-your-development-team.html

get $5 licenses to Confluence & Jira, and help raise money for charity: http://www.atlassian.com/starter/

I asked the guy, "why are you so fly?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqxlbz1608

is there any song a capella groups can't ruin? No. No, there isn't. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHadFRJssmM

rt @shanselman: Wow, I've been *saying* we should do this [ed: mainstream virtualization]. Can it be true? http://bit.ly/KN4ma

rt @marcoarment "I'm amazed that anyone makes any real money with AdSense at all. It's absolutely 100% terrible, all the time, everywhere."

adsense is performing astonishingly bad for us. It's in the "barely better than nothing" category. But nothing is the alternative, so..

what the EchoStar satellite sees http://www.givetheworld.com/aboutEchoStar11.asp

I need a tool to show us the asp.net HttpRuntime.Cache stats, such as which cache objects have the longest lifespan, big size etc.. ideas?

HAMMERPANTS TIME! http://is.gd/uk3U

the whole iPhone "baby shaker" controversy is weird in light of the not-approved "boobie shaker" app (rated PG-13) http://is.gd/ubZu

baby shaker iphone app is not only tasteless, but commits the worst sin of all: it's lame.

"Feel Like Shaking A Baby To Death? There's An App For That." Ok, so Fart apps were verboten, but this crazy crap goes? Apple, u so crazy

"Opterons to have 12 cores in early 2010, 16 cores in 2011."

@peiklk no way, @rockhardawesome will have to take me on Thunderdome style to get me out of this world.. http://is.gd/cvVj

I am here to tell you that the phrase "kids grow up so fast!" is a lie. A filthy, horrible lie!

@michaelllperry yes, I was on DNR podcast this week. I was afraid because I was sleep deprived, but seems OK: http://is.gd/u4aW

mouse pointer kite. Useful for pointing at women in bikinis, apparently! http://tinyurl.com/epyxd

It's all for you Damien! FOR YOU! http://tinyurl.com/dka5g3

rt @jzy "I want an auto-tune plugin for Skype." SECONDED. Lazyweb, make it happen.

@drylight a certain low amount is ok. but some people, it's all they want to do. I AM AN EXPERT ON EXPERTISE!

I hate meta-discussion so much. Podcasts about podcasts. Blogging about blogging. Stack Overflow posts about Stack Overflow. KILL ME NOW

who the hell is this Mike Daisey guy? vague references to him on the Yegge podcast http://mikedaisey.com/

previous tweet is 100% serious, not a joke. That thing has got. to. go. MythBusters work out of Alameda, maybe 20 miles from here

also, based on last 12 tweets, apparently @siracusa has gone insane. Wow. Just.. wow.

"I have HAD IT with these monkey fighting snakes on this monday-to-friday PLANE!" http://tinyurl.com/c5sv5s

"Twenty years later, even in OS X, the Macintosh still has a little bit of a Swedish campground in it." http://is.gd/tQuG

Star Trek Limited Edition Titanium Spork? The geek is strong in this one.. http://tinyurl.com/c9plkc

rt @mstum "Moses 2.0 would have made them 10 LOLCommandments images instead."

rt @CADBloke "Moses would have tweeted the 10 commandments. They're all <140 chars each."

rt @wilshipley "He explained the monastic ideal of creating beautiful things for their own sake, not because people will see them." exactly

turns out the best source for cheap Xbox Live points cards is eBay. By far. Where these cards come from, I don't ask, I just buy.

WikiRage http://www.wikirage.com/

From the department of bad ideas department: Trying to Game Swoopo http://tinyurl.com/cugzwy

Queen track "played" by old computer equipment http://tinyurl.com/c2vcz2

LEGO rock band is official http://tinyurl.com/cgtxzz

Disturb'n Strokes http://tinyurl.com/dcewnr

Jones Good-Ass BBQ & Foot Massage http://tinyurl.com/crryzx

clowns really are terrifying

rt @spouliot "scott/tiger to become the new root/password under solaris"

rt @wilshipley "The local paper is like a daily book dedicated to filler and news you don't need, or could find elsewhere faster."

investor in swoopo wants to call me. tempted to, just so I can chew him out on the phone for supporting pure evil. http://www.augustcap.com/

Ünited Stätes Toughens Image With Umlauts http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32404

c'mon. What serious language has characters wearing little tiny hats? àèìòù áéíóúý âêîôû ãñõ äëïöüŸ Åå? or beards? çÇ -- I REST MY CASE!

hey, I think my son just smiled at me! Or, he took a massive dump in his pants. That's the beauty of @rockhardawesome , YOU NEVER KNOW!

I dunno, some songs are so bad there's a sort of perverse pleasure in listening to them. But I am a very, very sick person.