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Entries from October 2008

A Couple of Good Links

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Steve Yegge’s taken his writing up a notch. It feels a bit like this is leading up to his leaving Google. Lean Startups. I’ve always been a big proponent of Deming style management – and at Digg my often repeated mantra was “smaller, sooner, more certain.” More than that I used to tell Kevin various [...]

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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-10-18 to 2008-10-25

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Diggs User 345 klhammy Memo To Palin: Fruit Fly Research Led To Advances In Autism 315 maanaamana Ten other things Sarah Palin may think the VP does. 307 d2002 I Apologize For Spreading Bad Plain "Polar Bear" Article 305 mrMunchies Funky New Google Analytics Features! 297 brianayers Political Radar: Biden to Supporters: OBAMA WILL BE [...]

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Moving!

October 26th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been using Mosso to host my email and this blog for the last year or so, but I severely dislike the lack of a shell, and the CPU cycle based pricing they introduced a while back pretty well removed any reason to stay there. So today I took the plunge and signed up for [...]

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Expedia is Insane, I tell you! Insane! Just Look at Our Prices!

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

One of the cool benefits of working at Travelpod/TripAdvisor/Expedia/ItsComplicated is the discounts we get. At the top of the list so far is the hotels.com discount, which can run anywhere from 15-30% off hotels.com’s already-low prices. But we also get a regular assortment of emails from HR about new and cool discounts. The last few [...]

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Great Company Looking for Perl Hackers and More

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

craiglist.org Somehow I think they’d be happy to hire remote.

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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-10-11 to 2008-10-18

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Diggs User 435 YeahMan Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign 428 DefendThyself Obama’s Plan Is To, You Know, Spread The Wealth Around 364 nihil 2006 McCain letter demanded Fannie/Freddie action 321 naderventura Demonstration On Wall Street 311 DiggMikeyDigg John McCain Needs Alzheimers Screening? 309 vick3ii Obama voted present on Fannie/Freddie reform 300 badwithcomputer McCain in [...]

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Death

October 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Death, originally uploaded by ojbyrne. This was a diorama about an invasion of Quebec by the US during the Revolutionary War. It said something like “If one of these invasions had been successful, Canada would be part of the US now.”

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Small Panes

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Small Panes, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Between

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Between, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-10-04 to 2008-10-11

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Diggs User 369 Ageroth Betty White calls Sarah Palin a "Crazy Bitch" 368 rjwusa Obama’s Deep Ties To Mortgage Meltdown -Obama’s Corruption 350 Charlotte_Web ACORN voter fruad rampant — in at least 15 states! 343 buckeye343 CNN: Obama/Ayers Connection Investigative Report 328 Cararan New Fuel-Injection Shock Treatment Increases Mileage 326 LeviTheSmith Stop posting pictures of [...]

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