With a sample size of 1,724,087 visits and over 17,428,039 page views over the last 30 days we have a large enough base for these numbers to actually mean something. While we perhaps have a slightly larger concentration of the younger demographic... Continue Reading

Installing Sphinx on Amazon EC2 and EBS

Okay, day two of learning EC2 and attempting to get a Sphinx Full Text Search server up and running on my Ubuntu EC2 instance and data on the EBS volume. As far as AMIs the web site Alestic has been a big help, but today I changed to the official... Continue Reading

Guide to the Google Buzz Button

So like everyone else in the tech world, I am enthralled with Google Buzz right now. I wanted to find out how to implement a button to easily share the content on my site (MileSplit) on Google Buzz. I found some help on some of the tech blogs who... Continue Reading
Something I have been wondering about today is why are there different internet packages for your mobile phone. Like why is it that when I got my Android I had to ditch my BlackBerry internet data plan and get a Google internet data plan (which is... Continue Reading
Chrome/Firefox - Of course the first thing has to be a web browser! I am having an internal struggle right now. These two titans are battling for my heart. I like Chrome better, but it's still a little buggy. EditPad - Simply the greatest text... Continue Reading

Music Ownership Soon to be Obsolete

For a long time I have been reading the various tech blogs (especially Tech Crunch) raving about the need for DRM-free music and also basically saying that music subscription services are the stupidest thing in the world. They contend why would... Continue Reading
I was amazed how much attention my last blog post about the speed tests I had done after after enabling CloudFront on my S3 static content. The post was re-tweeted over and over on Twitter and today I even saw follow-ups of people saying they were... Continue Reading
Several years ago, back when I was a budding junior web developer back at MindComet--better known as the evil empire--I was part of a fantastic (if under-appreciated and under-paid) development team that included at the time folks like Jerry Jackson... Continue Reading

I still don't get Twitter

I have tried very hard to understand why Twitter is relevant. Daily I am bombarded by its league of (geeky) fans on tech blogs proclaim that Twitter is some amazing tool that is revolutionizing the world. I've used it. I've tried. And I still... Continue Reading
So I had a few minutes here before I head out the door, and I started thinking more about the coming merger of TV and Internet that has been fabled for years but finally seems realistic. I started thinking who stands to benefit from this? How can... Continue Reading