Alex Curelea’s Dev Log

Heh.

Sorry GoDaddy, too little, too late. But I’ve been meaning to switch for a while now, thanks for finally prompting me to do it.

I’m far from a good sysadmin. I don’t have the patience to RTFM, I never remember syntax, and I usually don’t have the discipline to document what I do, meaning any sysadmin work usually ends up a frustrating sequence of trial and error.
I’m moving all my stuff from Slicehost to Linode, which I’ve put [...]

I’m not the only one to notice that some of the most interesting posts on Hacker News generate few comments - and, conversely, some of the least interesting posts generate the most comments (see here, or here). Of course, you can’t generalize too much, but it seems like an interesting metric.
I whipped up a [...]

This banner ad on some random site really made me do a double-take:

I really have to wonder: did someone goof, or is it an insidious plot to make people notice the ad? If the latter, it definitely worked, although it’s not compelling enough to make me click.

I love the #1stdraftmovielines trend, many are just hilarious.
I put together http://www.1stdraftmovielines.net/ pretty quickly - let’s see if it takes off, I would love to see which ones bubble up to the top!