jake olsen » misc http://jakeo.org/blog brain_get_contents(jake_olsen); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fun with Blackbird Pie http://jakeo.org/blog/2010/05/05/fun-with-blackbird-pie/ http://jakeo.org/blog/2010/05/05/fun-with-blackbird-pie/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 16:15:47 +0000 jakeo http://jakeo.org/blog/?p=286 Twitter’s new quote tool.


Over it.less than a minute ago via webBarack Obama
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Exploring the portal model.less than a minute ago via webEric Schmidt
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Just bought CS5.less than a minute ago via webRichard Stallman
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]]> http://jakeo.org/blog/2010/05/05/fun-with-blackbird-pie/feed/ 0 Another New Gig http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/09/26/another-new-gig/ http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/09/26/another-new-gig/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:37:12 +0000 jakeo http://jakeo.org/blog/?p=264 I’ve joined Motorola to help with the service (MOTOBLUR) behind the Cliq.

Motorola Cliq w/ MOTOBLUR

More to come, this is going to be fun.

–jake

]]> http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/09/26/another-new-gig/feed/ 0 “I Don’t Even Know What a Database Is” http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/07/21/i-dont-even-know-what-a-database-is/ http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/07/21/i-dont-even-know-what-a-database-is/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:56:51 +0000 jakeo http://jakeo.org/blog/?p=250 24wt6z7

I heard this quote from a programmer once. Seriously.

Matt Mullenweg summed it up best from Structure 09:

We live in Jeff Bezos’ Amazonian republic. Every engineer is also a DBA. If you don’t understand how the database works, you shouldn’t be programming. You shouldn’t touch a keyboard.

Word up.

–jake

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Credit to my father who made this observation.

]]> http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/04/16/the-internets/feed/ 1 (Mel) Gibson Guitars http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/03/18/mel-gibson-guitars/ http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/03/18/mel-gibson-guitars/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:42:04 +0000 jakeo http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/03/18/mel-gibson-guitars/ When I’m browsing, I often double-click to select a word for a clipboard, another search, whatever.

My surprise tonight when I noticed NYT had hijacked my double clicks to open their reference search, which is powered by Answers.com, and is mostly useless and non-contextual.

Which is how I was taught that Gibson only means Mel Gibson.

Guess they need the pageviews.

UPDATE: It actually looks like they are trying to be contextual, as the double click on “Gibson” from this article passes “say, Fender and Gibson” onto Answers.

–jake

]]> http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/03/18/mel-gibson-guitars/feed/ 1 A friend of myself http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/02/08/a-friend-of-myself/ http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/02/08/a-friend-of-myself/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:30:20 +0000 jakeo http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/02/08/a-friend-of-myself/ Somehow, I friended myself on Twitter.

It’s bugs like this, that I wonder:

1) How in the hell did I do that?
2) How the hell do I un-friend myself?
3) Am I an idiot?

Twitter Friend

I had Twitter updating from my now listening bot, but Huslage said that was going to cost him a fortune in SMS fees. Makes you wonder, what kind of person wants Twitter updates all day long?

–jake

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–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

]]> http://jakeo.org/blog/2006/11/23/blog-moved-jakeoorg/feed/ 0 Amazon – XBOX – Bummer http://jakeo.org/blog/2006/11/23/amazon-xbox-bummer/ http://jakeo.org/blog/2006/11/23/amazon-xbox-bummer/#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:35:58 +0000 jakeo http://urbanverb.com/blog/2006/11/23/amazon-xbox-bummer/ 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

]]> http://jakeo.org/blog/2006/11/23/amazon-xbox-bummer/feed/ 0 Change Detection http://jakeo.org/blog/2006/11/14/change-det-2/ http://jakeo.org/blog/2006/11/14/change-det-2/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:44:48 +0000 jakeo http://urbanverb.com/blog/2006/11/14/change-det-2/ 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.

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