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brianaker

  1. Mars rover casts shadow over area the size of Seattle. Will build space needle next, Starbucks will open spring 2013. on.msnbc.com/MKUPwe
  2. Thanks to Littlesnitch I know what programs communicate to which service. It shows me things like MS Autoupdate uses port 80. Security--
  3. So what does this mean for Amazon and their web APIs? itworld.com/mobile-wireles…
  4. Next, London! (@ San Francisco International Airport (SFO) w/ 141 others) 4sq.com/KOcQcv
  5. @swardley no, I will be England :)
  6. It is always disturbing to find a "well that is wrong" bug in some part of an API,... why? It means that no one is likely using it.
  7. iTunes really doesn't scale to handle my 2 terabyte music collection. On the other hand, nor would a CD player.
  8. How hard could it be to drive a car with a manual transmission in a foreign country on the "wrong" side of the road? #planned_failure
  9. About three months ago I considered spending energy on creating a Jenkins valgrind plugin. The wait paid off, someone else wrote one :)
  10. You know you fly a lot when you can tell that the landing approach has changed.
  11. Wouldn't want to see this stolen! twitter.com/brianaker/stat…
  12. RT @wired: Oracle Goes For Broke In Court Battle With Google bit.ly/JEqhMu "I want my two dollars!" - Better Off Dead
  13. @timbray You don't update your twitter feed from your .profile?
  14. Another day working at the convention center! (Read the fine print). twitter.com/brianaker/stat…
  15. I need to hire a lot more developers in Seattle,... Openstack, open source, database, python, java,...
  16. I continue to be amazed by companies not realizing that the AGPL license, is not the GPL. There are serious implications.
  17. Why does anyone expect anything to compile on Centos < 6? It is very old.
  18. What has finally gotten me to move off Safari to Chrome? Facebook link remover. I am a little tired of the Facebook walled garden.
  19. One person's failover design is another person's "that doesn't work!". Use case, it always comes down to use case.