Barry on WordPress

  • Worst policy…ever

    I’m sitting on a plane heading to NYC. In front of me there are 16 empty rows. Behind me there is maybe 1 empty seat. United won’t let anyone move up unless they pay a $54 upgrade. No wonder this airline doesn’t make any money – what a dumb move.

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  • Lesson learned

    If you have a middle name, use it when booking air travel. It could save you hassle and a trip to the FBI watch list.

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  • Rain

    It’s raining in San Francisco for what is probably the first time in 6 months although it seems like its been at least a year.  I thought Texas summers were dry….

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  • Interesting stats

    As a follow up to Matt’s September wrap up post, I thought it would be fun to post some more technical stats about the current WordPress.com infrastructure: 80 physical processors 139GB of RAM 91 hard drives with a combined total of over 15 terabytes of storage space 2000 database queries per second spread over 40

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  • $2500 Mousepad

    My laptop charger died today. I now have a $2500 mousepad. I guess I should really get it fixed 🙂 UPDATE: I contacted Apple last Friday and received my new charger in the mail today (Monday). Pretty fast!

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