How to SFTP into a Virtual Server on Your Joyent Accelerator

I’m finally getting around to setting up my Joyent Accelerator. As I read through the ‘Getting Started with Joyent Accelerator’ wiki, things were going smoothly. Updating the nameserver at my registrar was unexpectedly fast and easy, as was signing into webmin, setting up a virtual server, a subversion repo, and a couple users. Now, which …

Ququoo.com Update: iCal & RSS Feeds

As a thanks to 75 people befriending Ququoo, I just deployed an update to Ququoo.com. Improvements include: RSS & iCal* feeds auto-hyperlinking urls permalinks fixed timezone bug If you dig the improvements, click one of the Ququoo PayPal subscription buttons. Thanks. *The iCal feeds are working as expected in iCal.app, but not in Google Calendar, …

Save for Later Because

I think albums of music and podcasts are very similar and I see both them very different from radio. Unlike Dave, I don’t want my podcasts automatically deleted, I would like the ‘Save’ or ‘Delete’ option just as I do on Tivo. The iPod/iTunes assumes everything is precious (it’s not), automatically deleting assumes nothing is …

The Real Need to Disintermediate “Friendship”

“Okay, Twitter is funny; I really don’t want to type in @garrickvanburen when Garrick knows who he is, but ‘at Garrick’ gets coded wrong. :(” – Eric Larson “I would love to see the distributed infrastructure of the web, blogs and RSS reach the level of adoption and usefulness that Facebook has, I’m quite certain …

Netflix Defines a 3-Star Movie for Me

This week our Netflix queue hasn’t been very good to us. While Prison Break started off engaging and interesting, it falls apart quickly halfway through Season 1 Disc 2. Where the less MacGyver-inspired supporting stories unfold. Netflix’s Suggested Rating: 3-stars Last night, Idiocracy. After watching more than 15 minutes of the film, I’m not surprised …