Wednesday, September 24, 2008
I don’t normally talk about politics on my blog, but this really bugged me.
Video: Palin Shown Praying With “Witch Hunter”
Blumenthal, in addition to his on the scenes reporting, posts video of the sermon which Palin references (footage begins at 7:30). In it, the minister implores Jesus to protect Palin from “the spirit of witchcraft.” Earlier, [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
We (Mahalo) have just released a backup and restore tool for HBase.
From the docs:
Attached is a simple import, export, and backup utility. Mahalo.com has been using this in production for several months to back up our HBase clusters as well as to migrate data from production to development clusters, etc.
Simple MapReduce job for exporting [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Almost there…almost 50,000 registered users….
Friday, September 19, 2008
The Los Angeles Hadoop Meetup aims to be a Birds-Of-A-Feather style gathering of people working with Hadoop1 and related technologies. We’ll be kicking off the new group with pizza and beer. It will be a meet and greet, we’ll discuss how we’re using Hadoop, what we’d like to get out of it, and what’s new [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
via flickr from jasoncalacanis
We have a sign above the door at Mahalo. I feel so grown up now.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
For the last three years, we’ve had a “default” feed on Podiobooks.com that we’ve not publicized. It originally started out as a feed for sharing three episodes with your friends, but later, we expanded it to include all the episodes for a given book.
We didn’t publicize it because we thought that the majority of the [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
photo credit: EvaSan
Fantasy Flight makes some great games, but this might be pricing them out of my range.
Roseville, MN, USA. Fantasy Flight Games (“FFG”) announced today that it will increase suggested retail prices on a wide range of its products. These 10-25% price increases are broad reaching, affecting most of FFG’s [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
Like most folks of a security bent (and if you’re reading this, that probably means you), we’ve spent a lot of time watching Web 2.0 with bemusement.
Promiscuous sharing of information, client-side Javascript goop, blogging,
mini-blogging, micro-blogging, vlogging, social nets and social media have all given the web much of what the starry-eyed latte-chugging idealists [...]
Sunday, September 7, 2008
In her latest post, Bethlet says that this reminds her of her job at times. I think that all of my friends in the web industry will find it familiar…
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