you know your database refactoring worked when the traffic volume on your private network interface drops by 30%

good point @haacked ; if Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHPerl is LAMP, Windows/IIS/.NET is WIN! WIN i say!

macheist: proving that the lame used car salesman way of moving software works just as well on the Mac as the beige box PC. Well done.

I will go this far: I think the iPhone is a more important product than the original Mac.

oh man, WTF with the dynamic-by-width # of columns on this blog? http://is.gd/7sPz

"the harder I practice, the luckier I get."

In other news, Duke Nukem Forever still hasn't shipped. Also, water still wet, sky still blue, unicorns still kickass.

fatties enraged by fat princess. (I'm kidding! I'm kidding!) http://www.feministgamers.com/?p=466

I just deduced that @niniane is commenting on my blog. Cool!

The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known http://is.gd/qOer

wtf, Bret of Flight of the Conchords was *really* in the Lord of the Rings movie? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Figwit.PNG

ok, random anonymous internet blog commenter, *you* may think I'm full of crap. But my cats think I'm AWESOME.

"Because all you have to do is change a few adjectives, and it's Nazi talk." http://is.gd/qHtP

Monster Cables: now with 250% more evil! http://bit.ly/2W3Tod via @mparekh

can't stop reading "Almost Perfect." CAN'T STOP. http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml

rt @dansdata PIMP DOG http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.22220

hey, Technorati fixed their javascript "blog reactions" script! And it only took them a YEAR! I could have done that in 6-8 weeks, tops.

Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. http://is.gd/qGiG

wow, it's really sobering to look at 33.6k modem download times for web pages. We used to use the web back then? I don't believe it!

dude stuff -- real aa-12 combat shotgun, as seen in videogames http://www.gizmag.com/aa-12-combat-shotgun-frag-12-automatic/11393/

saw @biz on Colbert Report, and learned that he's as mystified as the rest of us why Twitter works at all

Do you have a Flying Polyp problem? Then you need Elder Sign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWT07iRvI9M

“[netbook] Disruption will come in from the bottom and forever change the market.”

In its last quarter, Microsoft posted the first sales decline in its history for the PC version of Windows. It blamed netbooks for the drop

"he dataset includes 211.5 men, 6.5 women and 4 transsexuals" http://is.gd/3haL

"There are pitifully few female programmers that can be called famous. So few that transsexuals are giving women a run for their money."

man, feedburner stats have been super-wack-crazy lately. I don't really care, but it's getting ridiculous how wild the swings are.

comments by women are so rare on my blog that when I see a female name in the comments it is 95% likely to be spam. Sad but true.

Sacha Baron Cohen's next movie -- first trailer (r-rated trailer?) http://www.avclub.com/articles/its-the-redband-bruno-trailer,26139/

screw Roomba, iRobot needs to build the every 2 hours baby feeding machine...

rt @jongalloway Why is Live ID taking so long following through on OpenID support? http://is.gd/qsIh

Hmm, I didn't know at least half of these Google Search basics: http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Prisoner's dilemma cheatsheet: cooperate until you're betrayed, *then* betray. http://is.gd/ozri

So, you want to be a theoretical physicist? http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1466

I really need a device that delivers electric shocks to anyone who mails me. Except for you, of course. I value your emails.

"The levels in the game are fully destructible - and by fully we mean *fully*. There are over 37 mln individual voxels in the first level."

OMG so *much* to love about voxelstein 3d. Try the grenades and c4. http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/

voxelstein 3d http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/

LCD monitor return rates soar due to dead pixel pandemic http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17839

I will pay many shiny golden doubloons for this t-shirt : http://www.dansdata.com/images/flash.gif

my method of photography is remarkably similar to my coding style -- take 20 pictures, discard the 19 that suck.

yay, it's Cthulhu day! The day where all of us petty three dimensional mortals worship our Dread Father! http://is.gd/qnGq

serverfault.com logo design contest -- $512 prize, with $50 for 2nd and 3rd place. http://99designs.com/contests/20088

Twitter's little text blurb above the input box shouldn't be "What are you doing?", but "Do something awesome!"

@survivor_zero Am I saying that gratuitous T&A, plasma rifles, and huge explosions would make Conway's Life a better game? Yes. Yes I am.

rt @jongalloway Somehow I've ended up reading the early history of WordPerfect. I have no idea why. http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml

well, at least the wikipedia article is interesting. http://is.gd/7w9R I just remember coding this on the Apple // and being nonplussed.

am I the only programmer who finds Conway's Game of Life a) uninteresting and b) uninspiring? YAWN

what, exactly, is the difference between "sea salt" and plain ol' "salt"? The higher price tag?

paying our $3k so.com tax prep bill -- visually depicted for your convenience: http://is.gd/qelY

Save IE6! http://www.saveie6.com/

Are Unicorns Kickass? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/704790/are-unicorns-kickass

DON SPACE HELMET! MVC architecture astronomy ho! http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-best-practices-part-1.aspx

can't stop listening to Plants vs. Zombies theme song. insanely addictive. http://www.popcap.com/games/pvz

the hug machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine

the $36,000 bottle of cognac -- really! http://codingslave.blogspot.com/2009/02/q-what-is-price-of-drink.html

does anyone want one of these domains? They're expiring, but I'll xfer free to programmers: http://is.gd/h0TV

unicorn chaser video is excellent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPPvDrR1vws

Amazon mp3 daily deal: William Shatner's Transformed Man album for $0.99. YOU NEED THIS! http://is.gd/qbob

Master of Puppets 3.2 million full band Expert HD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5roCR3BasHQ

interview with Eric Gill, of the eponymous font http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/20090401.html

I will not bore you with all the "OMG babies!" talk, but I will say this: a newborn with hiccups is possibly the cutest thing on the planet

thinkgeek always outdoes themselves for April Fools. Guess which one *will* become a product! http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml

ok this fark April Fool's parody is pretty funny IMO http://www.fark.com/NFE/

sending out "hail mary" email on a domain name that I would love to use that is registered to a person but dormant. Try, I must.

we just rolled out a magical new feature on http://stackoverflow.com !

"Welcome to Carl's Jr. Would you like to try our EXTRA BIG ASS TACO? Now with more MOLECULES!"

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. "

lol... "which included $79,000 designated for the 'Fightin' Whites Minority Scholarship'" http://tinyurl.com/6xpcb8

rt @jzy Periodic Table of Awesoments http://tinyurl.com/64xafn

.. brought to you by Carl's Jr

I think this week's episode of 24 had the most obscene and gratuitous product placement I've ever seen. Presidential pardons via webex..

brief summary of Tuesday's stackoverflow outage, from the More Than You Wanted to Know(tm) files http://is.gd/pZFi

Anvil: The Story of Anvil http://www.anvilmovie.com/

"well, the good news is, she's pregnant!" http://is.gd/pYmn

that new Intel "core i7" CPU architecture is totally meh on desktop, but awesome on server: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16656/6

am I the only person who sees this and thinks of Alien chestbursters? Brrrrrr. http://tinyurl.com/cuvqyq

here's the RAID controller info: it's an IBM branded Adaptec -- http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7900/sodb1raiderrorbios.jpg

starting to really, really hate our RAID controller. There have been THREE (!) firmware updates since we deployed 1.5 months ago. wtf?

ok, emergency so.com database server is online

so.com database server is apparently MIA. bringing up alternate.

I really don't know what to do with these "none of your website's JavaScript works for me!" bug reports.. uh.. OK?

"Customers know ugly when they see it." And yet, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. PARADOX!

I just realized that @dooce is like a vaguely literary Paris Hilton.

did you know? http://tinyurl.com/cutb3p

I put the Shirky/Atwood EclipseCon slides up. Tough without audio, though. http://is.gd/pKEy

hamburger pr0n http://tinyurl.com/chpu5t

"[English] is also probably the second or third hardest language on Earth to learn as an adult." -- does anyone agree with this statement?

freddie's dead http://tinyurl.com/csxgkz

twitterpoll: how much should this amount of hosting bandwidth cost? http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/4026/stackoverflowbandwidth.png

OK, disco sucked, and all, but I challenge you to listen to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Holds up remarkably well IMO.

Every time I hear wind chimes, I think a serial killer is murdering someone, somewhere. Damn things are creepy. Maybe that's just me.

I got 99 problems but a regex ain't one.

I just realized I have the BEST JOB IN THE WORLD. Also, I have a case of the Mondays.

"You’re Joe F**n Cool, you’ve got all these people looking at you, and you’re just f**in’ up the motion-capture" http://is.gd/pALI

Mrs. Skoien, after finding her husband widh prostitute(s), “beat him with her fists and a [Guitar Hero] guitar.” http://is.gd/n3CX

computertan! http://tinyurl.com/d92gm6

trying to keep track of all the things I don't care about. It's an exhausting, tireless, thankless job, but someone's gotta do it.

greatest classic pc games of the 80's http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/950/950214p1.html

"Tell her you're freaky, Bret. Tell her you're freaky." #flightoftheconchords