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Twitter mentions of Whitney vs Grammy following Whitney Houston's death (13 Feb 2012)
Twitter mentions during SuperBowl XLVI (05 Feb 2012)
Using the PHP SDK for AWS to launch an instance (30 Jan 2012)
Twitter mentions during the 2012 State Of The Union Address (25 Jan 2012)
Using the PHP SDK for AWS to dump all instance info (20 Jan 2012)
Sopa vs Pipa tweets (18 Jan 2012)
Tracking the death of ... (05 Dec 2011)
Personal and Professional Accomplishments that I'm Particularly Proud Of (05 Dec 2011)
Contact steve (05 Dec 2011)
Virtualized all of my servers (17 Nov 2011)
Shaving frequency for men (06 Sep 2011)
Fedora / Redhat / CentOS are falling behind Ubuntu (11 Jul 2011)
Twitter tweets per day (21 Jun 2011)
I'm returning my Acer Iconia A500 Android Honeycomb tablet (20 Jun 2011)
Gnip food is YUMMY! (16 Jun 2011)
Allowed to compete with Pronto! Finally! (10 Jun 2011)
Drobo will support > 2TB drives (01 Mar 2011)
python backtraces are so f'ing cryptic! (11 Feb 2011)
My review of the Amazon Kindle 3 (27 Jan 2011)
Simplicity is the core of a good infrastructure (25 Jan 2011)
Riak rocks (12 Jan 2011)
Mobile Lawsuits via graphviz (06 Oct 2010)
The job market is still very good (05 Oct 2010)
The first company to build a TV box that will download any TV show that gets broadcast at the same time it comes out will win (17 Sep 2010)
I'm working in a company that's building something again! (19 Aug 2010)
Gmail's POP3 server is broken - and they probably won't fix it anytime soon (17 Aug 2010)
Great VIM tools for developers and power users (16 Aug 2010)
Setting up your git client for badcheese.com (12 Aug 2010)
UPS debugger (03 Aug 2010)
HP dv7t-4000 laptop review (30 Jul 2010)
Drobo Second Impressions (24 Jul 2010)
Drobo first impressions (17 Jul 2010)
Amazon starts HPC node offerings in AWS (13 Jul 2010)
My Mechanical Turk Experiment (12 Jul 2010)
Downsizing and consolidating my computer equipment (12 Jul 2010)
Looking for work in 2010 – part 2 (03 Jul 2010)
Getting laid off was the best thing that could've happened to me (03 Jul 2010)
ZFS log server (29 Jun 2010)
Looking for work in 2010 – part1 (28 Jun 2010)
Mordac: Time To Upgrade (21 Jun 2010)
Laid off, but enjoying the summer anyway (15 Jun 2010)
Roland JD-990 instrument definition file for the Linux Rosegarden MIDI sequencer is available (12 Jun 2010)
squid no Last-Modified or Etag header (09 Jun 2010)
We should all use the Mosaic UserAgent (04 Jun 2010)
I figured that I'd crawl facebook tonight (04 Jun 2010)
My Memorial Day Burger Recipe (28 May 2010)
The people screaming about IPv4 running out of IP space are all drama queens (27 May 2010)
Mordac - Wordsmith (15 May 2010)
Nagios service_dependency only works with active checks (28 Apr 2010)
Even Firefox knows that Java sucks! (18 Apr 2010)
Want to see some really web 1.0 web pages? (14 Apr 2010)
Why the carrot-and-stick methodology of employee motivation doesn't work (13 Apr 2010)
As soon as they port VNC to the iPad, now, we're talking (01 Apr 2010)
Inside 10 of the largest datacenters (25 Mar 2010)
JavaFX might be dead before it gets out the door (24 Mar 2010)
20GB in 1980 versus 32GB in 2010 (20 Mar 2010)
My latest anti-java rant (19 Mar 2010)
Review of PVFS2 (2.8.2) (02 Mar 2010)
SysAdmin John McCain! (21 Feb 2010)
Why your employees are losing motivation (18 Feb 2010)
Why I hate java (16 Feb 2010)
Finished my "last search" plugins (06 Jan 2010)
Amazon needs a mysql replication/snapshot service (05 Jan 2010)
Why git is faster than jgit (03 Jan 2010)
2009 Christmas Stream is up (16 Nov 2009)
System Administrators: who we are, what we do, how to manage us & why we look at you that way when you come to us for something (08 Nov 2009)
How to enter the grub 2.0 boot menu - hold down the shift key (06 Nov 2009)
linux w/ reiserfs 3.x vs a SUN SAN 7410 running solaris and ZFS (20 Oct 2009)
There's no way that balloon could've lifted a 50 lb boy (16 Oct 2009)
Linux guy tries out a Mac for a weekend for the first time (11 Oct 2009)
Linux users trust the community (04 Oct 2009)
writing a crawler - thinking about the whole internet (21 Sep 2009)
writing a crawler - relative to absolute urls (21 Sep 2009)
How just one popular site could hack anyone's account(s) on the internet (08 Sep 2009)
The way to do url-shortening right (20 Aug 2009)
Google Voice needs a little work for the transcription service. :) (10 Aug 2009)
TechStars 2009 demo day companies (06 Aug 2009)
Finally a video that explains some of the things that I do in a language that even my mom can understand (28 Jul 2009)
I spend too much time online to deal with crappy JavaScript (09 Jul 2009)
Update on the GeoCities rescue from archiveteam.org (29 Jun 2009)
Collage of 5000+ images taken from Amazon's iPhone app via mechanical turk (16 Jun 2009)
The reason to see UP - Dug the Dog (13 Jun 2009)
I got the dreaded phone call from Comcast today (08 Jun 2009)
Why making a startup out of your basement is so difficult (19 May 2009)
Table Mesa & Flatirons Summer and Snow (13 May 2009)
Apache tuning for small-ish linux machines (22 Apr 2009)
Got rejected by TechStars again, but we're getting better at it (13 Apr 2009)
A little experiment (27 Mar 2009)
So, with Woz's legions of geek/hacker fans, how is he not going to automatically win Dancing With The Stars via a python script? (10 Mar 2009)
Denver DIA wireless is free, but completely broken (03 Feb 2009)
Dell's new packaging (18 Nov 2008)
mysqlgame is my kind of game! (02 Nov 2008)
Had to post this. (17 Oct 2008)
Gonna play with Nutch tonight (07 Oct 2008)
HOWTO: diff'ing two huge files in linux (06 Oct 2008)
Made my wife a blog (05 Oct 2008)
Adobe confirms flash for iPhone – time to write the iPhone app! (30 Sep 2008)
MediaWombat.com Gets an IM search bot! (28 Sep 2008)
My pre-marriage life in a nutshell (20 Sep 2008)
Why isn't there a linux distro out there that is made for huge web 2.0 infrastructures? (16 Sep 2008)
DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson (Flicker Design Engineer) "Why I hate Django" (16 Sep 2008)
Disconnecting from Google (or) Regaining some of my Internet privacy back (Part 1) (11 Sep 2008)
It's 2008, how come cheap wireless isn't everywhere by now? (07 Sep 2008)
MediaWombat.com gets a facelift (05 Sep 2008)
How do you keep a 4 year old boy busy? (31 Aug 2008)
2008 Malibu Hybrids suck at gas mileage (31 Aug 2008)
My iPhone 3G gripelist (16 Aug 2008)
I'm a VIP driver for the DNC in Denver (16 Aug 2008)
Help me test my search engine theory (04 Aug 2008)
badcheese.com is going old-school (31 Jul 2008)
Why isn't the last search result followed the best one? (28 Jul 2008)
The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? (23 Jul 2008)
I've been invited to be interviewed on a podcast! (10 Jul 2008)
ISPs should embrace and cache bittorrent packets, not throttle it. (02 Jul 2008)
Google and Yahoo announce Flash search (01 Jul 2008)
WALL-E was pretty good! (28 Jun 2008)
My wife keeps asking me (25 Jun 2008)
My real thoughts on Kevin Rose (21 Jun 2008)
The voice of DJ Atomica in Burnout Paradise is ... (08 Jun 2008)
My birthday money however will be going to Apple, inc. (02 Jun 2008)
My stimulus check will be staying in the USA (13 May 2008)
FeedHub.com finally wins me over (29 Apr 2008)
mysqlPP "Bad Handshake" and old_passwords=1 (07 Apr 2008)
1080p or 720p - the REAL HDTV buying guide (06 Apr 2008)
Pronto thinks globally, acts locally (26 Mar 2008)
Jason Calacanis' 17 statup tips (17 Mar 2008)
Ok, I want one of these. :) (06 Mar 2008)
NASA uses Fedora - a lot! (29 Feb 2008)
All programmers and developers should be forced to develop on a 200Mhz Pentium computer with 32MB of ram (29 Feb 2008)
Where the hell is Billy? (27 Feb 2008)
IAC needs a single-sign-on service (27 Feb 2008)
Doing taxes for all of my relatives today (16 Feb 2008)
It's the weekend!!! Woohoo! (08 Feb 2008)
Got my fery first Google Adsense check! Woohoo! (07 Feb 2008)
Anyone know of a good Mysql Query Browser? (04 Feb 2008)
Nokia acquires Trolltech -- the biggest little company you've never heard of [Engadget] (28 Jan 2008)
Hot Cheese Gun (24 Jan 2008)
If I were to buy a new MP3 player, I'd buy ... (21 Jan 2008)
Pronto ranked as #7 of the top fastest-growing sites by Compete (18 Jan 2008)
Who's Who? (13 Jan 2008)
Sean Dances (13 Jan 2008)
Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students [Slashdot] (08 Jan 2008)
Things I forgot about newborns since our first kid (07 Jan 2008)
The New Years Webb Baby is doing well (01 Jan 2008)
Sarah likes the old pronto.com homepage design better! (01 Jan 2008)
worldPopulation++; (31 Dec 2007)
We're all getting ready for the big day (29 Dec 2007)
Portal Rocks! (28 Dec 2007)
Mordac, the preventer of information services (28 Dec 2007)
Caught a bird in flight on my security camera (28 Dec 2007)
Helllloooo ... Echooooo ... (26 Dec 2007)
Put up my Christmas Song Stream http://badcheese.com:8000 2300+ songs this year! (22 Dec 2007)
RedHat CEO steps down - replaced with the former COO Of Delta Airlines (21 Dec 2007)
Started looking at data for the netflix challenge last night (20 Dec 2007)
Thinking about entering the Netflix Challenge (19 Dec 2007)
People really *do* ask for permission sometimes! (16 Jan 2006)
Got php-exploited by a script kiddie this weekend. (03 Jan 2006)
Sysadmins are the plumbers and car mechanics of today - we keep the world running! (09 Nov 2005)
Where's the Subway ... or should I just go fuck myself? (21 Sep 2005)
Sweet Dreams are Made of Cheese (16 Sep 2005)
Drew Carey pays homage to badcheese.com! (11 Aug 2005)
Travelling across the US with just my Treo 600 and PSP! (22 Jun 2005)
More reasons to hate Qdoba (04 Jan 2005)
My good friend Adam Sleek died in early November 2004. (20 Dec 2004)