Random Bytes...by Ross Rader

Zero Inbox

Ross — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:28:00 -0400

Yay! After much work, I'm finally down to zero in my inbox. No unanswered messages, nothing left untracked. I added a few remaining Todo's from my mail into RTM, so I haven't done all the work, but the big thing is that *nothing* is in my inbox right now! Yay!

Of course, now I need to do something about this...

Maybe after we launch our next release. :-)

Our New Puppy was born today...

Ross — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:12:00 -0400

Just got word from our breeder that our standard poodle puppy was born today. She comes from a litter of 7 puppies - three of which are female. We haven't picked which one we want yet, so we don't know if she'll be red or apricot.

We already have a poodle/retriever cross (a golden doodle) puppy (9 months old) and we wanted to get him a friend that he could play with during the day when we're not around. All of our pets have had "mates" over the years and we find that the animals are generally happier (or so we think!)

We decided on a poodle instead of a doodle because we didn't want to take any chances with shedding. Some doodles shed (its not a real breed, so the characteristics of each animal are slightly different) and we're really quite happy not having to sweep up piles and piles of hair from around the house.

Our new pup will be coming home sometime late September. We'll probably be able to go out and pick her out in 3-4 weeks or so.

Heard from the birdherd...

Ross — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:30:00 -0400

Brian Manley:

Ugh. Investor picked the worst domain name ever for our site. Might as well have been we-suck-do-not-use-us-ever.com

Classic.

Twas Twittered: More on the death of hosting as we know it...

Ross — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:24:00 -0400

Balaji Dutt:

based on current volume of files i'm syncing i would pay 8 cents/month for amazon s3 vs 80 cents/months for godaddy filefolder - nice!

DIY no weld tandem bicycle

Ross — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:00 -0400

DIY no weld tandem bicycle - Su-weet!