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Wondering, as I was, where the ‘Move Window’ option went to? Or the Restore/Size/Move/Maximize/Minimize options? Just shift-right-click on the app in the taskbar and you’ll get that menu.

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Benjamin Black has a great post up about why SLAs are pretty much worthless. I agree — SLAs are a minor nice-to-have item but the cost to your business of any downtime is going to be so much greater — maybe 10x or more — and all they do is refund the cost of the [...]

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Over at the EngineYard blog, they have a couple of posts on working with RoR apps at scale, on general scaling and on sharding your database. We’ve had to do a few of these things already for certain customers and will hopefully have to do more in the future, but I think one of the [...]

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Just got back from a nice ride over by the lake on Lime Creek Road — quite a fun ride, with lots of turns and some beautiful scenery along the way. And for all those who wanted to see some pics of the two of us on our bikes, check out the Flickr set.

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Strafe Left was a favorite comic series of mine that I always enjoyed seeing in PC Gamer. This one was one of my favorites, and (as the artist himself says in the comments on that post) was the reason that SL got booted from PC Gamer.

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I love that Austin’s mayor is the kind of guy who would lead a Thriller dance performance: http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1418565568

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Firefly – The Complete Series — $17 for the complete set of one of the best SF series ever on TV. You now have no excuse to: Not own Firefly Not have given Firefly to a friend Not have given Firefly to complete stranger That is all.

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“I was shot 14 times on my way to work today, including twice by police,” said one Algonquin-area resident. “That is unacceptable.” –from the Onion

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I’ve shipped many things over the years, more often than not with UPS. I’ve had packages lost, packages damaged (including one that was run over by an airplane), and one package that was dropped so hard that it shattered the bookshelf speakers inside it. Each time, I’ve come away with it with at least an [...]

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In my day job I work on providing systems for remote monitoring and control of devices, and providing interfaces to and analysis of device data. When starting a project, there’s a great deal of flexibility as to what language you’re going to use, what front-end tools and architecture, etc. It gets you into the mindset [...]

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