The other day I was continuing my long-term quest to sort through all the flotsam and jetsam of accumulated crap on my hard drive when I came across the following video (click through if you don’t see the video below). Recorded in April 2009, it shows the first version of the TweetMeme Live functionality without any rate or minimum retweet restrictions. As you can see it moved pretty quickly.
I’ve put a post up on my personal blog detailing my goals for 2010 and this post will expand on some of the ideas I’ve had for the work goal.
The core of the goal is to create more freedom. Freedom to do what I want to do. Freedom to work when and how I want to. Freedom to experiment with new ways of earning a living.
I’m looking to develop my portrait photography skills so I’m throwing this out there to see if anyone’s interested in a free photo session. I take a lot of photos but aside from weddings I generally haven’t had a lot of experience taking pictures of people. I want to change that.
I know it’s been a while since posted anything on this blog, but I’ve had a lot going on and it hasn’t really been at the forefront of my mind. So, what’s been going on?
One of the pillars of a scalable website is ensuring that only activity which is required to build a page should be performed during the processing of a page request. Activities that fall under this category commonly include sending emails, recording statistics and general housekeeping such as removing temporary files.
Back when I started working on sites big enough for these activities to cause a problem I went down the obvious route of making a PHP CLI script for each job that needed doing and getting it to run using cron. This worked for a while but as the sites I was working on got bigger and more complex it quickly became clear that this was becoming difficult to manage, so I started to consider alternatives.
A new phishing attack against Facebook has surfaced recently using the domain fbaction.net. Whenever I see these things I always reset my browser and try signing in with fake details to see what happens. In this case I got a nice surprise. When I got redirected to Facebook I got this…
who cast the final stone?
who threw the crushing blow?
someone has to take the fall
why not me?
a punch toy volunteer
a weakling on its knee.
is all you want to hear
and all you want to see.
romantically, you’d martyr me
and miss this story’s point
it is my strength, my destiny
this is the role that I have chosen.
Clarification: I received about 12 copies of this to various email addresses. While annoying I thought it was pretty well done and worth preserving. I have no idea who (or what) wrote it.
It’s 5am and I can’t sleep. When this happens I usually fire up Boxee and find something to watch, so that’s what I did. I was happy to see that since the last time I used it Boxee appear to have added a bunch more internet sources, which is great. However, the following 15 minutes were nearly the most frustrating of my life so far.
Not sure if I believe this is real or not, but either way it’s a pretty cool idea.
I had a request recently to release some of the code from the TwitApps bots. The core of both bots is actually a shared email handler and I have no problem sharing it with the world.
Twitter-related stuff » Handling email notifications
On the assumption that I’ll eventually get around to sharing some more Twitter-related stuff I’ve created a new section in the projects area of this site. If there’s anything related to Twitter integration that you’d like to see me cover there please let me know and I’ll be happy to help.
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