Photos from an undiscovered country

Checkout the cluster of photos appearing in the Yellow Sea mapping its emergence.

A Couple of Caveats on Queuing

Les’ “Delight Everyone” post is latest greatest addition to the 17th letter of the alphabet for savior conversation. And believe...

Pahlka Dot: A couple of things about my Prius

Apropos of nothing other then I laughing out loud several times while reading it.

“On a rooftop in Brooklyn…”

We tromped up to our roof with friends and neighbors to watch the fireworks in the rain.

Yahoo: Do What You’re Great At

“… snort news off the tits of more news.”

Leonard for Obama ‘08

Congratulations to the Obama campaign, this is going to be awesome.

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From the road

Sierra Nevadas in the rear view mirror

IMG_3450, originally uploaded by curlyjazz.

A family ritual

A family ritual, originally uploaded by curlyjazz. We go for coffee at Gayles every Saturday morning I’m in Santa Cruz.

Big Picture: Water Water Everywhere

Wow.

Yuiblog: Patterns for Designing a Reputation System

Excellent, pragmatic, Christopher Alexander style patterns for building online community. With really cute graphic.

Khoi Vinh: Investing Strategies for iPhone Customers

“It’s certainly not as steep a trend as my iPhone’s devaluation, but it’s significant. In the year since I bought my first iPhone, AAPL has g...

AOEMedia Sponsoring Magpie

AOE media, a TYPO3 & open source provide from Germany, recently agreed to become a sponsor on Magpie. Which is very exciting! Looking aroun...

Compete.com: flickr vs facebook

Interesting graph I found via alleyinsider. Posting without any reference to our internal numbers.

John Waters: “Moving [to New York] proves that you believe in irony”

On New York’s facsimile driven aesthetics. via Buzz

Moving to New York

Some of you have heard, some of you haven’t, but Jasmine and I are getting up next week (June 12th) and moving to New York. The plan is to ...

10 Years

And what a long, strange 10 years it’s been.

Twitter, or Architecture Will Not Save You

(circa 2006 Twitter maintenance cat) Along with a whole slew of smart folks, I’ve been playing the current think game de jour, “How wo...

E.B. White: “There are roughly three New Yorks.”

“There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence ...

Ignite Boston 3 - Next week

Ohhh, nice looking line up, packed with old friends, old colleagues, and good folks all around. Enough to make you miss Boston.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

Amazing time lapse photography.

Better Javadoc results using “SearchMonkey”

The docs on I found on Yahoo’s SearchMonkey were all arcane XSLT, and strange feed formats ne’er before seen on the Web. But this exam...

WeeWar needs XMPP

WeeWar broke in a wave across the office this afternoon. (thankfully late afternoon, or I might have gotten nothing done today). Its a Web-based t...

Advanced OAuth Wrangling

I’ve been terrible about uploading my talks this year. So here are the Advanced OAuth Wrangling slides from my talk today. (even though I re...

Flickr tag: “soshirkyithurts”

Best tag ever?

Ninetynine-Ninetynine: “The more details are provided, the less likely people are to doubt the larger context.”

Useful (if evil) general communication tool, now science backed.

FriendFeed is too much info

One of the key topics (I think) in my Casual Privacy talk last week was the importance of “context” in privacy and sharing. That some ...

All salmon fishing banned on West Coast

“So few salmon returned last fall that the fishery council was required under its management plan to halt fishing throughout the salmon habit...

Code.Flickr: Videos in the API

Finally got around to posting on working with video in the API. (been sitting in the “really should be edited a bit” queue for weeks now)

Twitter: Jobs

Operations Engineer experience with JVM-based application stacks, Systems Engineer code using primarily Java, Ruby, C/C++ and Scala. I blame theraflu

All systems go!

Skipped lunch to spend a couple of hours this afternoon hanging at Mojo cafe this afternoon with Mroth and Blaine getting trained up by Steve. Lov...

Internet News: Flickr Taking Privacy Just Casually Enough

Susan Kuchinskas has a nice write up of my talk on Friday that manages to hit most of my quotable moments (and leaves out the few that really shoul...

Strange Viewings

I didn’t make it to the keynote to see our new CTO speak (meetings that morning), but it was very strange, bordering on deeply surreal to wat...

random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition

I miss Leonard, Gordon, and Andy. But now that they’ve dispersed from Big Purple it’s nice to see all three of them schooling the inte...

Hypertable looks really interesting from everything I’ve read but …

… I can’t get over this nagging question, “Why does Zvents need a distributed, sparse matrix, versioned datastore?” I don&...

Upcoming Talks, Web2Expo, etc

I’m speaking next Friday at the SF Web2Expo on Casual Privacy. I’m speaking in Dublin Speaking Thursday May 8th (2 weeks later) in Dub...

code.flickr: Web 2.0 Expo, you’re in our town now

I’ve just posted to the new Flickr Developer blog a list of all the various Flickr folks speaking at next weeks Web 2.0 Expo. Also, if you h...

John Gruber calls out the sorry state of Twitter’s APIs (while talking about the lack of good iPhone clients)

Me I just wish they’d bring back a delegated auth endpoint, whether their proto-OAuth, or a real OAuth endpoint. Meanwhile my only issue wit...

Donut Day!

See: Day of Donut

InnoDB 1.0: “Fast index creation: add or drop indexes without copying the data”

Because the write locking happens at data copy time. If this pans out looks like they’ll have managed to stay focused post-Oracle acquisition.

Cataloging and Selling Old Science Fiction

Both of my grandfathers were compulsive readers. They left behind large libraries. My Grandpa however was a life long fan of science fiction, and...

They Move: A random interesting video from Flickr

10 minute app to provide some content while my blog was down this week. Uses the new “media type” hooks in the Flickr API.

Delisted for “kellan”

update 2008/4/14 And we’re back in the index. Weee! update 2008/4/10 Wordpress got hacked. Google was my early warning system. Within 1...

Textism: Alright.

The world is better for having Dean Allen in it. I missed Textism.

kewlchops: Spruiking, Breadcrumbs & Marching.

George on the emergent cultural phenomena of awards/achievements/bravos/celebrations in the Flickr community. Someone should write a PhD.

Quiet Saturday Thoughts

Thinking again about distributed log oriented writes as a better architecture for a whole class of persistent data we need to deal with. Atomic ap...

Flickr: Beehive Launches without Phishing

Congrats to waferbaby, mroth, and ph for totally owning on today’s friend importing feature (aka beehive). We’re a little late to the...

1000 Days of First Cups

Steve Ford’s first cups is probably my favorite photo project on Flickr. I’ve been watching for photos of his first cup of coffee each...

Clay Shirky talks about “Here Comes Everybody”

“a society which has an Internet is a different kind of society then a society that doesn’t. In the same way that society that has a p...

Wikihistory

everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.

bceval: arbitrary precision math for PHP without extensions

I needed arbitrary precision math in PHP, and wasn’t willing to rebuild PHP to add the bcmath extensions. All hail backticks. function bcev...

“Seals Stadium was a minor league baseball stadium that stood in San Francisco from 1931 through 1959…”

Found via wikinear

Exordium Draconis - The fiefs are falling in the stream, the River flows away

“Turns out feudalism was a complete flight of fancy on the part of 16th and 17th century historians looking at a 12th century legal text that...

Working Notes on Consistent Hashing

Nice to see consistent hashing go from obscure to blindingly obvious in a few short whitepapers. Dynamo is certainly the sexiest discussion of d...

URL Shortening App?

Anyone got recommendations on a good open source URL shortening app (ala tinyurl.com)to run at Flickr scale? Its an easy enough problem thats it...

Your Email Password: A True Horror Story About Why We Need Authentication Standards - ReadWriteWeb

Your Email Password: A True Horror Story About Why We Need Authentication Standards - ReadWriteWeb

Google Contacts Data API

Google Contacts Data API

Fire Eagle: Interesting Choices

Other folks are talking about and writing about the long germinating, launched in beta, location broker from Yahoo’s Brickhouse, Fire Eagle. ...

ETech, SxSW

I’m heading out for a whirlwind tour of points ever so slightly south. I’ll be in San Diego for ETech, arriving Monday March 3rd (gulp...

Happy Leap Day - Laughing Meme

Historically there were a few days between the end of one year, and the beginning of the next that people took to be days out of the normal flow, a...

Reading a file backwards in PHP

This morning I needed to read from a file line by line from the bottom. In PHP. Perl, of course, has a module to do this. A quick view source de...

2007 Was Not the Year of the Addressbook

from __future__ import the_cloud the_cloud.twitter.me.unfollow.everybody the_cloud.me.addressbook.known_twitterers.each |identity| th...

Steve Loughran: “How do you know you have a SPOF (single point of failure)? You always have one. How do you find it? You don’t: it finds you”

Steve Loughran: “How do you know you have a SPOF (single point of failure)? You always have one. How do you find it? You don’t: it fin...

Renewal

Renewed protest.net. First registered 1998-2-24. Last time I renewed it was for 5 years. Time passes.

Amazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed

Amazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed

Identity Work

Several years ago I started talking about “personal brand management”. Came out of my talks with a number of people, primarily of cour...

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle