Archive for November, 2007

China Telecom Auto-blocker

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

About a month ago, the China Telecom here started blocking my DSL account from downloading web pages. One of their network techs told me they stopped allowing the read more…

Spammer-Powered Distributed Denial of Service

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Don't stuff beans up your nose, and I definitely do not condone anyone trying anything like this, but it seems like you could use the read more…

Music and Emotion

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Justin tonight sort of implied that he didn't like electronic music because there's just that something about people getting in a group and playing together.

I thought about this on the way home tonight. A thought occurred to me: maybe I think of music as a carrier of sound as opposed to a carrier of emotion. So I decided to list music that I can remember evoking some kind of feeling in me:

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Y Combinator Interview Result

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Dev interviewed for us at Y Combinator today, but they declined to invest. It sounded like they wanted us to reposition more toward technology, which makes sense because they invest in a lot of technology solutions for technology users — that's where their expertise is. I'm glad we got the (binary) feedback that our story could still use work, but my internal jury is still out on their particular suggestion.

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Y Combinator Interview Result

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Dev interviewed for us at Y Combinator today, but they declined to invest. It sounded like they wanted us to reposition more toward technology, which makes sense because they invest in a lot of technology solutions for technology users — that's where their expertise is. I'm glad we got the (binary) feedback that our story could still use work, but my internal jury is still out on their particular suggestion.

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tinyurl command line tool

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Create an executable file called "tinyurl" in your executable path which contains something like:

#!/bin/sh
wget -q -O - \
-U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8" \
--header="Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1" \
--header="Accept-Language: en" \
--header="Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7" \ read more...

Holy Crap

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

German guy with hammers. I'm blown away. Just watch.

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Holy Crap

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

German guy with hammers. I’m blown away.

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