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Arbitrage this. Arbitrage that. If you’re really cool, you call it “arb”. I’m sick and tired of seeing the word arbitrage every time someone makes a profit. It is especially prevalent and poorly used in the online marketing world. Arbitrage is the practice of buying and selling something when there is a price discrepancy between [...]

Over six months ago, everyone’s favorite online marketing “radio” station switched their content delivery to Akamai. They gave various public reasons for the switch, but the reality was that Limelight was sucking at it. I’m not sure how it can be that hard to stream out the 3-4 listeners that WMR has, but apparently Limelight [...]

This thing in Virginia is an absolute fucking atrocity. It shouldn’t have happened; it shouldn’t happen. Thing is, it did. Unless we’re completely unwilling to accept reality, it will happen again. It has gone down in schools, shopping malls and post offices. The only thing we can do to is learn from the failure here. [...]

A few years ago I was involved in a project to develop an anti-spam email appliance. This was right before Barracuda came out with their spam firewall, and the market was ripe for such a device. Kinda goes without saying that it never went anywhere, woe is the company with little funding. During that time [...]

This, and the comments that follow it, are all the reasoning you need.

If you’re building web sites or applications, and you’re not using memcached yet, you should be. Hogan showed me memcache a while back, and I literally implemented it the same day. Even if your site isn’t high traffic it hopefully will be in the future. When that time comes you’re going to wish you had [...]

Our country is facing the biggest threat to our way of life, ever. It is not Osama, not Bush, and not Hillary. It is the risk that we may lose what makes this country what it is. It is our freedom to choose our elected officials. The time has passed when it was acceptable to [...]

The first time I used Google Checkout I was astonished at how useless it was. In my opinion, they had taken something so simple, and made it more complicated, adding one more place I had to fill out all my billing/shipping information. I also was getting duplicate correspondence (one from Google, one from Buy.com) on [...]