2013-02-27 (Wednesday)
Writing
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Our Incredible Journey
About my new site, chronicling what often happens when an internet start-up is purchased by a larger company.
Links
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Anna Catherine Dr to Summer Rain Dr - Google Maps
Impressive: two houses in Florida that back on to each other, but to get from one to the other by road is a 7 mile journey. (via Paul Mison)
Tweets
@doingitwrong @hautepop Thanks. I Want Sandy is there already. Did the other two delete users’ content?
@designswarm Bah, sorry :(
@r4isstatic Thanks. I’m sure I’m not the first, or last.
I wrote a bit about my Our Incredible Journey tumblr: gyford.com/phil/writing/2… On acqui-hires, the lifetimes of online services, etc.
@blech @engineeringdept To be safe, I’d just pop it in the post if I were you.
An in-ear implant, powered by body heat, that plays Robyn non-stop.
@engineeringdept I think that thing is called a “gun”.
My strategy of ignoring all these Heroku+Django “out of memory” errors in the hope they’d go away appears to be having the opposite effect.
@russelldavies I worry sometimes that he has no one else to talk to, and that he’d get lonely if I left.
@paulpod Always the same. Always such nonsense, sometimes like a child telling stories about the real world.
@Zoonie Yes I wasn’t going to bother with this one but saw a couple of good reviews of the start. No idea why he’s so rated by TV co’s.