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Suresh Arena
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My friend Suresh has started posting to his blog.
Why am I on WordPress dot com? · Asymptomatic
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Owen Winkler has written an article called Why am I on WordPress dot com?, talking about the different versions of WordPress and what you get out of each of them. The thing that surprised me was that there was a Multi-User version of WordPress.
Flickr Architecture
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Ever wonder what Flickr’s architecture looks like? Niall Kennedy has a post about it that refers to a Powerpoint presentation on Flickr’s site and states some brief statistics. The presentation is pretty interesting. It’s amazing what you can do with MySQL and a little (okay, a lot of) PHP …
New and Improved Diary of an Axeman Site
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The Diary of an Axeman site, a tribute site to Randy Rhoads, has been redesigned. I have to say, it looks great! The downloads section has been updated with a performance of Crazy Train from Chicago’s Rosemont Horizon from January of 1982.
Oracle to release “free” low end database
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I found this article on ZDNET talking about how Oracle will be releasing a free version of Oracle 10g to try and head off Open Source databases like MySQL.
Numbers Not Up for the Quarter? Clamp Down on Bathroom Breaks!
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Ford Motor Company reports a third quarter loss and decides that employees are spending too much time in the bathroom. If this were my company, I’d check the lunchroom.
USATODAY.com – Tech people appear hyped about their industry again
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Kevin Maney posts a review of the Web 2.0 conference held in San Franciso earlier this month.
The Story of the Most Popular Guy on MySpace
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A guy named Samy documents his experience after hacking MySpace to become more popular. Pretty amusing read. It seems he learned his lesson and will be more honest moving forward.
Riya – Real Competition for Flickr?
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Nalla sent me a link to TechCrunch » First Screen Shots of Riya, an article about a new photo service with built in photo recognition. This looks pretty cool, aside from the stated 4 hour upload time per gigabyte of data.
Bieber Labs 