My office is 17 floors up with a nice view towards the Pacific. The ocean is a few miles away, so all I see is a sliver of blue on a clear day.

I doubt these guys went out of business, but they’re site has been unavailable since last evening. Perhaps someone bumped into the power switch?

A while ago I wrote up a post on Asynchronous Sockets. Ian was kind enough to send me an email correcting a few niggles with it and in an email exchange, cleared up a few other misconceptions about how sockets (and other IO operations for that matter) really work.

This is too funny. For any foreigners or Chinese press who read this blog, The Onion is satire.

Read the story from Fox News of all places.

Found this interesting puzzle on BoingBoing. I figured it out. Can you?

Someday when I have a kid, the young squirt will sit upon my knee and ask:

Found this here on Yahoo news. What is this frog doing?

Someone pointed this out to me on Amazon.com. A book entitled How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men.

This is an animated gif. If it’s not animated, then you’re not seeing what I see.

I have the lovely task of importing a POP3 mailbox with 144524 messages into our database. I’m using a 3rd party component, but am quickly learning more than I ever wanted to know about POP3. For example, ideally you don’t want to use POP3 for large mail boxes because POP3 isn’t scalable.

Best. Band. Ever.

Last night Akumi and I attended the Laugh Factory on Sunset to see our friend and up and coming comic Rick Ramos perform. I met Rick through Kyle as the two of them went to Northwestern together and both Rick and I gave toasts at two of Kyle and Cara’s wedding receptions.

If you’re having problems with your computer after upgrading to Windows XP SP2 and you are using a software firewall such as ZoneAlarm or BlackIce, try uninstalling your firewall software and re-installing it. That solved the problem for me. BlackIce recommends uninstalling their firewall before upgrading to SP2.

One thing that bothers me about the CommentAPI is that the only response you get is the HTTP status code.

This cracks me up.

I read with amusement this recent post on Scoble’s blog in which someone writes him a note dictating the tools that “Influencers” use.

Dare puts this quote from Tim Bray up on his blog.

Aaron Skonnard mentionsthat