TechCrunch is down

November 1, 2006

Looks like TechCrunch is down because the MySQL database server is either down or inaccessible. Mike really should look into VIP Hosting at WordPress.com.

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Save Baby Gavin

October 30, 2006

I apologize as this is a little off-topic for this blog but I wanted to bring as much attention as I could to the Save Baby Gavin website and blog. My wife's cousin Jill has a beautiful little boy named Gavin. Gavin was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or congenital kidney [...]

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I am such a loser :)

January 10, 2006

Discovered EgoSurf via. Steve Ruble’s blog and so I gave it a shot and scored 9130 points. I need a life The idea is simple – You enter your name and your blogs web address and EgoSurf searchs google (MSN, Yahoo, Technorai, Del.icio.us also) and finds links to your blog which is used to calculate [...]

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Looking for a reliable host with Tomcat/Jetty and MySQL

December 23, 2005

I have use pair.com for all of my hosting need for the last 10+ years and have rarely had any problems. But one of the bad things about Pair is the lack of Java support on the shared hosted side. They offer Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, etc on a dedicated server but that’s usually overkill (and [...]

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Top Financial Firms Architecting with XML

November 11, 2005

Found this item on Robin Cover’s must-read XML.org Daily Newslink. Last month, Reuters unveiled a new XML-based secure trade notification system that enables financial institutions to manage their trading capital and risk exposures better as well as improve operational efficiency. Reuters’ service, already selected by Lehman Brothers, offers a trade messaging hub to make a [...]

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Sad State of Affair in Java & .NET blog server software

July 20, 2005

It really is a sad state of affair when it comes to blog server software for Java and .NET. For the last few weeks, I’ve been working to introduce blogs and the concept of blogging internally at work and trying to pilot the use of blogs instead of the standard project portal. To that end, [...]

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