August 2011
1 post
3 tags
Why Companies Use Social Media, a response.
Today, a friend I work with sent me a link to Rick Stilwell’s blog article entitled “What I Hate About Social Media.”  After reading, there were a few points that rang a bell with me, and I wanted to respond.  I commented on his blog, and realized after I posted the comment, that it was just short of novel length and I should probably post it on my blog. One of the quotes that...
Aug 9th
July 2011
1 post
Jul 19th
September 2010
1 post
tarekhassan asked: are you senior programmer?
Sep 27th
June 2010
1 post
6 tags
Amazon AWS Elastic Load Balancing and MySQL
I’m writing this post in response to a problem I experienced recently while putting MySQL behind an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). Basically, the MySQL server stopped accepting connections made through the ELB, and sent the client an error to the effect of: ERROR 1129 (00000): Host ‘elb-hostname.compute-1.internal' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin...
Jun 11th
May 2010
2 posts
3 tags
Privacy. Real Life, the Internet, and Facebook.
Since Facebook’s big developer conference, F8, in April the Internet has been swarmed with people talking about how Facebook is completely ignoring users’ right to privacy, and automatically “opting-in” users to insecure privacy settings.  These allegations have some truth to them; and depending on what your stance on privacy is, they may not be completely unfounded...
May 20th
I Suck.
Seriously.  I suck at a lot of things.  Some of those things I’ve tried, or am trying to get better at.  One of the things I suck at, is maintaining some kind of presence that I have ownership of, on the internet.  This is my attempt to get better at it.  Mind you, this is not my first attempt; but hopefully it will be my last one. Every time I’ve tried to create some sort of site, or...
May 18th