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Even Google Makes Mistakes
in GoogleThis is an expert from a Gmail Blog Post re: the recent gmail outage: Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center in Europe to become overloaded, and that caused cascading problems from one data center to another. It took us about […] Continue Reading
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Revisiting Mobile Redirection Using .htaccess ReWrite Rules
This article is out of date, check my latest code snippet here. Back in 2007 I wrote a post detailing a method for detecting and redirecting mobile browsers using .htaccess. Since then the mobile landscape has changed quite a bit: iPhone and Android have been released, the PDA market is all but dead and phones […] Continue Reading
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3 Myths About Mac OS X [Updated!]
Years of switch ads and John Hodgman awesomeness have finally gotten to me. I bought a 15″ MacBook Pro. I’m living the iLife. It’s my first real Apple experience since the Apple IIe, overall I’m pretty impressed, though I have this sinking feeling that I’m not using OS X to it’s fullest potential. That said, […] Continue Reading
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iWatch. The iPhone Watch.
in RandomLG just release a watch phone. Allow me to present you with the iPhone watch. Continue Reading
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Yahoo Pipes Is Useful
I actually found a use for yahoo pipes! Problem: I import my blog posts to facebook as Notes via their import settings. I find that a lot of friends and family comment on those posts, these people don’t typically follow me anywhere else and – I can admit it – I’m a comment whore. I apprieciate […] Continue Reading