jake olsen

I’ve moved this blog permanently to jakeo.org since it more reflects me and my thoughts rather than Urbanverb as a whole.

–jake

PS: for those of you moving Wordpress blogs to a new domain, this .htaccess is all you’ll need:

Redirect permanent /blog http://jakeo.org/blog

My attempt to go consumerist crazy and buy the XBOX special on Amazon failed miserably.

Amazon went down. Yes, down. They can’t handle people wanting $100 Xboxes.

With this, and the recent Alexa problems, how does Amazon expect people to trust EC2 and S3? It seems THEY should be able to turn on extra machines when they have a special that millions of people are scrambling for.

I’m off to be thankful, my consumerism is done for the day.

Happy Thanksgiving!

–jake

Check out Sick Graffiti on Line 5a in Madrid on Platial.com, originally posted by jake.

@ 40.429540, -3.705780

I heard about this great deal on an Xbox 360 through Techcrunch last week.

So, I’m trying out ChangeDetection to monitor the deal on Amazon.

I’ve never used this service, but I find idea useful and presented simply, as it should be.

I will report the results here.

–jake

UPDATE: First change detect came in next day at 7:04 AM, but it wasn’t the price and the change detection service doesn’t tell you what changed.

UPDATE: 11/18/2006 - Hmm, that was stupid, it seems that I have to sit at my computer on Thursday at 11am to get this. Am I that hungry for an XBOX? No, I’d rather eat turkey. Yes, I’ve played into the game crazy hype going on this Christmas season.

Like the default skin?

Back to the basics.

–jake

45.517210, -122.655238 - Be an educated voter, don’t just vote to vote. If you know nothing about the issues or candidates, stay home. If you think Democrats suck because of Kerry’s comments last week, stay home, you’re too emotional and should’nt be voting.

Go Dems.

Check out Vote! on Platial.com, orginally posted by jake.

UPDATE - w00t Dems!. There’s a lot to fix, let’s get Rove politics behind us now.