Month: February 2010
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Don’t Cross the Streams!
It’s always funny when different aspects of your lives cross. For instance: 10MinuteMail is one of my projects, and Ulta is a contracting client I do a lot of work for. It’s just funny to see an Ulta ad on 10MinuteMail:)
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DDOS Against 10MinuteMail
You may have noticed 10MinuteMail was unavailable for a few minutes over the last couple of days. 10MinuteMail recently came under a DDOS attack which locked up the site a few times. Most of the malicious traffic came from the Netherlands, Germany, and to a lesser extend other European countries and the USA. Initially I…
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Making Search Keywords Easy
I was recently contacted by SortFix who introduced their offering to me and thought maybe I’d be interested in writing a blog post about SortFix. (full disclosure: I have received nothing from SortFix other than their e-mail request). SortFix is basically a value added search provider who wraps Google search results. Their approach is to…
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Make Google Ignore JSESSIONID
Search engines like Google will often index content with params like JSESSIONID and other session or conversation scope params. This causes two problems: first the links returned in the Google search results can have these parameters in them, resulting in “session not found” or other incompatible session state issues. Secondly it can cause a single…
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Awesome!
I received this great color changing LED light for my birthday that I’m using as bias lighting behind my monitor. The effect is even more impressive when it’s dark, but is still pretty cool during the day. Check it out here: Video of the color changing bias lighting
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It’s my Birthday
Today I turn 30 years old, which is a pretty big milestone. Stepping past my 20s seems pretty intimidating. Ignoring the fact that I’m actually a pretty down to earth responsible working guy, the 20s to me are associated with youth, dancing at clubs, being wild and reckless, making fun a priority, college escapades, etc……