jake olsen

It’s been a minute.

Our beautiful daughter Quinn has been with us for 5 months now almost.

Launched this.

Doing a lot of work with Solr and EC2.

I’ll try to update more regularly.

–jake

The Dept. got a new website last Thursday.

Dept. of Skateboarding

Today, they make the front page of Digg.

Nice job guys.

–jake

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

I met with Monica Garcia from the PSU Vanguard last Sunday about Platial.
This is what she wrote:

http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/25/43d75552305c8

The only correction I have to make is my DJ name is Kola, not Koala, and sorry to all those “marketing monkeys” I may have offended.

–jake

Holy moly, we’ve come a long way.

–jake

Maybe it was a premonition that this was going to happen, but we got rid of our Tivo two weeks ago.

Marc @ O’Reilly has some good words:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/09/oh_come_on_tivo.html

–jake