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To get the permalink of a post, either rightclick on the post’s headline and copy the location, or simply click on that said headline and copy the location from your browser. Also, if you really really have to know, this is how the text-’scores’ below each review (coming soon) relate to other gaming sites scores. [...]

For all of you late night/early morning readers, the Midsummer Fire Festival has just gone live on most US servers. We’ll have a lot of Fire Festival content of our own coming your way, right here on WoW Insider! Midsummer Fire Festival starts tomorrow! When you enter your name and email address, you’ll be sent [...]

And today the popular Spread Firefox site has set a challenge to break the world record for the most downloads in one day. I cant help feeling though that this may have been a little marred by the strain on the Mozilla servers. Several times this morning Ive tried to download only to be greeted [...]

Twitter is preparing for the talk by enabling more servers and is looking into backup plans. Blogs have been devoting most of their posts guessing and predicting about the new annoucements. It is really remarkable for a gadget that is probably gonna cost 600$/piece if were talking about the new iPhone. Even before the launch, [...]

Starbucks-free Jersey City coffee news you can use. BarFry, Cabrito, and the war in Iraq. Cooking can be like war. You join the battle at a restaurant ready to liberate the palates of diners looking to pledge allegiance to the next big idea. Do it right and you’ll not only be the benevolent occupiers, you’ll [...]

Yea i know read my post fully next time i’ve linked the exact same thing you have. Aye BUT I think just before conan officially gets released they will give keys out to everyone. And if not, which server are people on ? And if not, which server are people on ? Don’t quote me [...]

It also was the home to 3 of Esquire Magazines Best Sandwiches in America. A green city with delicious sandwiches, what more could you want in a city?! We lost first place by a breadstick because thats what canlis serves breadsticks. We also rank #2 on Forbes list of Americas most wired cities. And [...]

Lessons learned First of all, when you scale 10x and then 10x again to run on thousands of servers every little problem turns into a large one. So suddenly its not something you can ignore anymore. An example for this was having exponential backoff for uploads to S3 when using curl, but forgetting that the [...]

Fights start at 7 p.m. W/ the championship bell ringing at 9 p.m. + Food & Drink Specials worth fighting for! Ok so I’m not a big UFC fan, but I’ve seen them before. I am pretty laid back and tolerant of servers that are less-than-average. No need to sweat the details. Looking for something? [...]

Make sure the kids don’t fight over which movie they want to see. Might need to get another computer. No need to download movies when you can watch them here. No need to run to your local Blockbuster video store for a DVD rental. Stay home and save money for college. This site is not [...]

E-mail me at softwareengineer99 at y a h o o dot com for my resume. Monday, April 07, 2008 Google App Engine Announced - Limited to 10,000 Accounts Google’s announcement tonight is much bigger than I thought. Google is releasing Google AppEngine (site goes live at midnight EST) tonight, a fully-hosted, “automatically scalable” web application [...]