October 2008
4 posts
September 2008
8 posts
Black days of the week
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Evan: a semicolon is like an extra-lower case J
Evan: J --> j --> ;
Leslie: I suppose so
Evan: ; --> :
Leslie: now you've gone too far
Evan: --> .
Leslie:
Why GoDaddy is awful (Read this if you use EC2 or...
GoDaddy has come under fire a lot recently but surprisingly enough I haven’t heard anything about their absolutely braindead anti-spam strategy.
We were seeing a lot of bounced messages coming in from users trying to sign up for our service, Email Center Pro. Here’s an excerpt from the bounce messages we were seeing:
Reporting-MTA: dns; fly.emailcenterpro.com X-Postfix-Queue-ID:...
warning: nerd stuff
At work, we have a website for monitoring our web app, Email Center Pro. It shows a log of recent major activity- new accounts, account upgrades, downgrades, if someone (gasp!) cancels an account, etc. The concept is similar to Queen Bee at 37signals, but I’m not sure if we got the idea from them. We also have key server information available for diagnostics and so forth. I though it would...
WatchI bought a car. It’s an 08 Ford Focus. I’ll probably post some pictures of it when I get a chance to take some, but you can look at these photos and imagine that it’s silver and get a pretty good idea of what it looks like.
I’m including a video of the weirdest feature it has- a button that changes the color of the accent lighting. My favorite is the deep blue.
WatchMythbusters tested a video they saw online where some guy made a fireball out of an air cannon and sawdust- they confirmed it and went on to make a huge fireball with 500 pounds of non-dairy creamer.
I’m just re-posting this video from last July 4th when I did the same thing along with John from Pyrographics (using considerably less creamer) at a Gems game- because Mythbusters was clearly...
