• Manhattan Sunset

    Finally made it to NYC after getting stuck for 13 hours in the Tuscon airport. ย There is nothing like the Manhattan skyline at sunset…

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  • Congratulations Erin!

    Today, my sister, Erin, graduated from college. We thought the day would never come ๐Ÿ˜‰ Congratulations, Erin, we are all proud of you.

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  • Moving to NYC

    San Francisco is a great city and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here.ย  Time for something different, however.ย  I am moving to New York City in January.ย  I will be leaving San Francisco on Thursday afternoon and spending some time traveling between now and January 26th, when I head to NYC.ย  Good bye SF,

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  • Road trip to Texas

    Tomorrow morning I am leaving for Texas. When I drove from Texas to San Francisco in January of 2007 I said to myself I would never do it again, but in today’s world I guess never < 2 years. Going to take a bit of scenic route this time. Here is the map. It breaks

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  • Static hostname hashing in Pound

    WordPress.com just surpassed her 300th server today. How do we distribute requests to all those servers? We use Pound of course. For those of you not familiar with Pound, it is an open source software load balancer that is easy to setup and maintain, flexible, and fast! In general, we do not stick individual sessions

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