May 2007
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Zooomr Mark III Launched!
Last night Zooomr Mark III launched. After a long week of “just a couple more hours”, “it’ll be up tomorrow”, “once this is fixed we’re done”, the highly anticipated site came back online to much fanfare. For 15 minutes.
Normally, this type of outage would be chalked up to overload of the system. The Slashdot or [...]
Rails Tutorials
I am making my way through learning Ruby and Rails with a couple projects that I’ve always wanted to write. Rather than writing sample applications I find it a lot easier to learn if I have a need to use a tool, and these projects provide that need.
As I’m working through each one I’m discover [...]
zooomr Mark III attempt 2
Zooomr is attempting another migration to their Mark III release. The migration is planned to take 12 to 24 hours.
At the start of this migration attempt, Thomas and Kris held a bit of a launch party on ustream.tv, announcing their intentions and doing a QA.
The migration is still continuing as is the broadcast. Thomas [...]
Heroes, Global, and HDTV
I am a HUGE Heroes fan. From the very first episode, I knew it was going to be my favourite TV show (replacing a floundering Lost quite easily).
Any TV that is worth watching is recorded on our Rogers PVR in HD, shows that are just on and we happen to “watch” are on the [...]