The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar
Great video from “The Guild”
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Media
Posted on
August 18th 2009
Archive for August, 2009
State of Broadband in Rural Iowa
I work full time for AOL, LLC and telecommute to work. Because of this I need to have broadband in my home. We currently live in the smallish town of Indianola, Iowa and we use Mediacom for our broadband access. The current high speed package we have is $50 a month (7MB download, 512KB upload, [...]
I just finished staking out our new home. It makes me ready to build.
Originally uploaded by richwklein. Rachel and I staking out the location of our new house. Now, I’m in the mood to start building. Hopefully, we can get the current house in shape to sell and get it on the market yet this year.
Improving Django Cache – Part III
We’ve setup a custom cache backend and modified it to fix cache keys. Now, we are going to tackle a much more complicated problem; dogpiling. Dogpiling occurs when an entry in the cache expires. If you get multiple requests for that cached item before it’s new value can be calculated, you end up with attempts [...]
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August 11th 2009
My World
Originally uploaded by Jon Hicks. This week’s Flickr interesting photo. It’s cool that I ran across this in the “last 7 days interesting” on flickr. I’ve only known Jon’s Mozilla work in the past. Now, I’m going to have to keep up with his photo stream too.
Filed under Media Posted on August 7th 2009
Bay Area Slang Top 100 (The Grinch song)
Good beat, nice flow, and interesting topic. You have to love a song like that.
Filed under Media Posted on August 5th 2009
Improving Django Cache – Part II
In part I of this series we setup a custom django cache backend based on the current memcached implementation. For the second installment in this series we are going to start modifying our custom cache backend. Memcached has a couple of limitations it sets on keys. Currently the length limit of a key is set [...]
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August 4th 2009
Lefthandedness = Dexterity Challenged?
I’m a lefty. Several members of both Rachel and my families are lefties. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of our kids turned out to be left handed. I’m not afraid to swing a hammer or turn a screwdriver, but I’ve always felt slightly awkward doing it. Especially compared to my right handed relatives. Now, [...]
Filed under Editorial Posted on August 3rd 2009