Our President using salty language, audiobook style http://tinyurl.com/d5s45t

this QNAP 4-bay NAS looks really cool for the $. positive reviews as well. http://tinyurl.com/d44h7v

we're thinking of running JungleDisk as a service on our db server to migrate backups to S3. Any alternatives/downsides?

current FB-DIMM DDR2-667 pricing .. 24GB -- $600, 48GB -- $1,300, 96 GB -- $17,000

glad I didn't go with 48 GB of memory on the db tier; would have been seriously overbuying based on current metrics. Tho "only" $1,800..

is it required by law that every geek convention have a girl dressed as Princess Leia? Not that I'm complaining, I guess.. http://is.gd/jr50

rt @cornify "@codinghorror In the eyes of the grand unicorn everybody is #1. Have a sparkly friday of happiness and magic!" <3 <3 <3

"StackOverflow is the fourth best website on the internet in my opinion." w00t! We're gunning for #3, cornify.com!

Whatever happened to spelling BAD with two D's? I am totally bringing that back. http://tinyurl.com/d5gj3k

aha! HBO's Big Love is #1 on Entertainment Weekly's "must list" this week. I told you guys this season was outstanding. TASTE: I HAS IT!

Day man! Champion of the sun! Master of karate, and friendship, for ev-r-y-one.. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/37ca1177d7

this is what it looks like when you have 8 babies in your belly http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/63299/original.jpg

excellent, it looks like switching the RAID array down to 1.5GB/s (SATA I) has fixed our I/O timeout issue

Tesla - The Greatest Hacker of All Time http://tinyurl.com/azw3j2

Chris Pirillo is only 5'3"? I guess he puts the Gnome in GnomeDex.

Cory Doctorow just had a steam-gasm http://www.steam-con.com/

aha! so crows are eating all those disgusting snails around the house; that's where they went. Go crows! http://is.gd/jkaH

wow, this "option (optimize for unknown)" really is like magical fairy dust. It took an 8s query (bad query plan! BAD!) down to 50ms.

lol, the Don't Click is AWESOME. I hope people learn about XSRF!

ok so the "don't click" thing is an XSRF vulnerability on twitter. Read up: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001171.html

ooh, that's bad. So there's a XSRF vulnerability on Twitter. Been there, done that. Except we fixed our crap.

Don't Click: http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6

OPTION (OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN). I'm applying this hint to the execution plan for my life, too.

I just saw a google ad for Psystar. How has Apple not sued these guys into oblivion yet, selling their hackintoshes?

@KathySierra Amazon is one of the few major tech companies that hasn't ever made a significant mistake, that I can think of

rt @tomrittervg phpbb.com got hacked, and here's how http://hackedphpbb.blogspot.com/

wow, I can almost repro this one poisoned parameterized query every time. adding option (recompile) fixes it, utterly.

thanks for everyone's help on the sp_executesql issue, it DOES appear to be bad plans for parameterized queries sticking in the cache!

seeing a case where parameterized sp_executesql is consistently and repeatably slower than equiv hardcoded string sp_executesql. WTF?

It's sort of a crippling limitation for us that we can't do string s = View("/whatever"). Limitation of ASP.NET Page class, apparently

are there any view engines I can plug into ASP.NET MVC that allow me to render to a string *gracefully*? Eg no ghetto hacks?

although I am also a fan of Doing the Stupidest Thing that Could Possibly Work http://is.gd/jgSJ

email = HTML 3.0 http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

"climaxes in a brutal fight that ends when Riki throws the mutated warden into a industrial meat grinder." must.. see.. film..

source of ubiquitous "head smashing" video clip seen on The Daily Show and elsewhere http://tinyurl.com/dxd82g

"They're boxy but they're good." http://www.philseed.com/volvo-240.html

I can't decide who my favorite Buccaneer-Scholar is. http://www.buccaneerscholar.com/blog/archives/3

"They don't have the right to read a book out loud," said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. http://is.gd/j12v

just had a vision of "Mr. Bean goes to our Data Center". Not good!

ok, so 99.9999% of everything is crap. But that remaning .0001% is pretty darn amazing. As long as your sort order is working, I guess.

"If you're horrified by what you see in the mirror, you are not alone." http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001020.html

"Klingon programs don't do accountancy. For that, you need a Ferengi programmer."

still seeing some errant IO issues on the db server. Looks like dropping down to SATA-I (1.5GB/s) data rates might fix it: http://is.gd/jbMx

how much would it suck to be this guy, right about now: http://is.gd/jbht

give it away, give it away, give it away now http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335678420235003.html

YOU GUYS!! GAME KING SHOWCASE!!! http://tinyurl.com/c977mb

apparently googlebot is parsing and following javascript links now?

"I hate codecs. All of them. Especially the ones I don't have."

and the # label that's hardest to remove? the one that says "Paul Graham". http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

"Good work on Stack Overflow!, its now replaced Digg as a more useful way to spend my time." +1 for humanity

uhhhh.. Snoop Dogg in Rock Band? :P http://www.rbdlc.com/news/?p=792

rt @HMXCasey WANT. WANT A FUN KIT. http://tinyurl.com/2ksln9

RT @99designs Get 5 great books for the price of 1 AND more importantly HELP VICTIMS of the #bushfires http://sale.sitepoint.com/ pls RT

giant spider art.. thing? wow http://tinyurl.com/cwwn7a

Nina Simone, from Verve Remixed http://tinyurl.com/4eubnj

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own." http://tinyurl.com/dlw9x9

images of flies in urinals reduce "spillage" by 80% http://tinyurl.com/cu4axs

well I'll be damned. cleaning the keyboard in the dishwasher did work. I had to wait MANY days for it to dry fully and not wig out, though

are there any birth videos on teh youtubes? Probably best not to ask this question, but I cannot resist

"I'm living in a world of darkness." http://tinyurl.com/5ulujk

I am totally addicted to the "Reliability and Performance" monitor. It out-taskmans taskman. http://is.gd/iUWk

google is 83% of our traffic and delivers 350x the traffic than the next best so-called "search engine" does.

based on our stackoverflow.com stats, if *every other search engine in the world shut down*, it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference.

"by 1999, the sum of human-produced information (including all audio, video recordings and text/books) was about 12 exabytes of data"

why is it that half of every bag of tortilla chips is tiny, useless, broken fragments? #firstworldproblems

"When you're shopping for memory, spend on capacity first." remember, 8GB is the new 4GB, kids! http://is.gd/iTKJ http://is.gd/iTKK

coding an HTML imagemap for the first time ever. Never thought I'd see the day, but reducing # of http requests is serious bidness

"the software industry's innovation problem" http://tinyurl.com/5drqhv

prescient piece on the current domination of the Wii, written in 2005 before its release http://is.gd/iT8g

I love that this was Damien Katz' intro video at RubyFringe (Peaches) http://tinyurl.com/bbzton

Only 3 episodes in, and Season 3 of HBO's "Big Love" is already the best yet. http://www.hbo.com/biglove/

on the plus side, we did get 297 visits from Internet Explorer version 999.1, apparently. Stupid time travellers!

When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires (very mildly nsfw) http://is.gd/iiIv

I fear the spiderpocalypse http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/Judgementangel/1198869387042.jpg

"And they would write it all down and take it away with them, like a bunch of scribes." http://www.entropysite.com/morrison.html

wow, moving to 8 gb (web) and 24 gb (db) definitely opened up a lot of "breathing room" for caching. Memory is crazy cheap, why not use it?!

I remember the reddit guys said they were very happy with HAProxy in front of ~20 servers; I believe 37signals uses it as well

paying $6-$10k for a hardware load balancer seems.. imprudent, given http://is.gd/iQrj and http://is.gd/iQrp

what do you recommend for load balancing multiple web servers: hardware? software? what "just works"?

gary larsen cartoon photo re-enactments -- brilliant http://www.flickr.com/groups/farside/pool/ example : http://is.gd/iO5W

"Trust [the cloud] like you would trust a guy pulling up in a van offering a sweet deal on electronics." http://is.gd/gAzm

The $300 million button http://tinyurl.com/9xfb5x

Code, also known as "zeros 'n ones" or "lines," is fast becoming a full-blown epidemic, even in small towns. http://is.gd/iNRA

"I guess hackers (the bad kind) are just testers who exploit bugs instead of reporting them."

"the minimal care required to send a letter with zero defects [..] will, alone, guarantee a respectful reading" http://is.gd/iNN5

needs more monitors http://tinyurl.com/bvb4rw

"Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop."

bible 2.0 http://tinyurl.com/5hvqpn

I empathize with articles that are critical of me -- *nobody* is as dissatisfied with Jeff Atwood as I am

MSFT 2D color barcode video: a laundry list of classic fake companies: Fabrikam, Contoso, Northwind, Coho http://is.gd/eSHi

"we'll look back on Twitter as the CB radio for a new millennium"

"In the nation of Bolivia, the locals are sitting on a stockpile of white gold." http://tinyurl.com/b8k4nz

"If god didn't want us to take the path of least resistance he wouldn't have littered it with laughs and good times." -- achewood

wow, just did an isp-to-isp file transfer, 650mb in < 1 minute. I SAW THE FUTURE

"if you are allowed to change your mind, you ruminate on both the positive and negative aspects of the choice" http://is.gd/iN4t

rt @lennysan "Pingdom and mon.itor.us are the low end, Gomez/Keynote/Webmetrics are the big boys"

beautiful fan-made lucasarts adventure game posters http://tinyurl.com/cy63ex

what do you guys/gals recommend for website HTTP monitoring? Ideally something that checks port 80 from around the world

"I want a really well-endowed, good-looking gal in a tight T-shirt, with our name right across her breasts." http://is.gd/iJBJ

"Java Loves You — Please Wait" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/01/12.html