For a couple of years, Cindy has been doing her computing on a first-gen MacBook Air that we bought used from a Microsoft developer. (He joked that his boss got sick of him doing presentations with a big glowing Apple logo facing the audience.) While she was away on vacation, the machine decided to stop… Continue reading

Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for Gulf Oil Spill: “What we want to do is, take as much pressure coming from the well bore as possible, and put that into production.” As seen on CBS news tonight. Continue reading

Here are a few simple questions: How much money did BP stand to make if they had kept the Deep Horizon’s well under control? How much money would have been made from the oil that’s been lost to the Gulf of Mexico? How much money do they expect the disaster to cost them, before they… Continue reading

After weeks and weeks of deadlines at work, and sickness and minor injuries at home, I finally had some time to get back to work on UserLand this weekend. There are still too many servers running UserLand’s sites, making the hosting fees higher than they need to be, which of course limits the amount of… Continue reading

Over the last few weeks, Dave Winer and I have been working to figure out what the future will be for UserLand’s software and web presence, with the goal of preserving the historical record, and making sure that the technology and software built by UserLand can survive into the future. Today Dave posted a summary… Continue reading

I’ve spent some time over the last few days taking inventory, and reviewing ways to reduce hosting costs. It looks like it may be easier to keep things at The Planet, and consolidate down to one or two machines. In the meantime, I’m helping move a few sites off the servers, most notably RedToenail.org, which… Continue reading

I just finished a major disaster recovery effort on this server, also the servers that run much of what remains of UserLand.com. Phew! Here’s a quick recap of what happened: UserLand was running 10 virtual servers, using Virtuozzo, hosted at The Planet. The physical machine was running Virtuozzo 3.5, on Windows Server 2003. The machine… Continue reading

This is the view from the deck next to the coffee bar. It’s made from seven photos stitched together. Continue reading

The view from the bar behind the “adult” pool. 🙂 Continue reading

The resort was over-booked, so we got a free upgrade to a room across the lawn from the beach. Look just to the right of the nearest palm tree, and there’s the ocean. Yeah, baby! Pacific Sunset Sunset from the plane, over the vast Pacific Continue reading