Tonight I attended Mixergy, a kind of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) type talk at the Edgemar theater in Santa Monica, featuring knowledgeable folks like Michael Dorausch of Planet Chiropractic (more info on Dr. Michael’s site here), Elmer Thomas of Thinking Serious, MrBabyMan over at digg.com.
Things I learned from tonight’s talk include..
A great thing [...]
My current laptop is a PowerBook G4, 1GHz CPU, 768MB RAM, 40GB hard drive. Looks just like this ..
Went for the upgrade on Friday night ..
An update on my earlier post on BarCampLA5. Post BarCamp first day, and I have to say I’m pretty impressed. Wonderfully diverse bunch of people all the way from marketing types, to musicians, to actors/actresses/comediennes, to web bloggers, to linux kernel programmers! There was free entrance with pre-registration, free food, and free T-shirt to [...]
There’s an interesting new idea that’s been around for a few years now of get togethers, conferences, whatever, that are communal in nature. My friend Michael Dorausch (of Planet Chiropractic) turned me on to this a year or two ago but I’m only just now getting round to going to one.
Conferences are typically hosted by [...]
My main disk died the other night, hence everything’s been offline.
I had backups of all the data, but hadn’t realized I’d not backed up essential config like /etc and /var.
I thought I had an ad hoc backup of the whole OS, but that turned out not to be. A quick fsck and it became [...]
