Something is in the Air…

June 30, 2006

Though I can’t go into detail at this point, there are some big programmatic changes in the air for Technosailor. :) These changes benefit me more than you, but nonetheless, stay tuned in the next week… :)

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Google Checkout – Can I Pay For That Using Adsense?

June 29, 2006

Note: The following post is written by Aaron’s b5media colleague Scott Goldblatt. Scott is the editor of b5media’s renowned swimming blog Timed Finals and writer of his personal blog The Parental Olympian.
As a product manager in the payment industry, I have to say that I am always interested when companies (especially ones like Google) [...]

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Data Center Power Outage

June 28, 2006

Technosailor and all of the b5media sites have been experiencing several critical issues lately. You’ve probably noticed it. It’s been a perfect storm of sorts with a bunch of unrelated, but highly important problems.
1) First, we discovered we had a degraded RAID array on one of our servers. Because this server was RAIDED we were [...]

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Soaked and Floating Away

June 26, 2006

I made it into work today. It was a soaker all weekend, particularly yesterday. Areas of the Maryland recieved a foot of rain while most other parts suffered a meref 6-7 inches. Power outages, flooding, “water rescues” (Are we rescuing people from the water or are we actually rescuing the water? Hmmm) and [...]

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United 93

June 25, 2006

Just went and saw it at the dollar theater last night.
Stunning.

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Thanks for the Traffic Jam

June 24, 2006

Following on Darren’s excellent point of thanking sites for the traffic that is referred, here are the top ten blogs referring traffic here over the past month:

ProBlogger
Blog Herald
Emily Robbins
Ensight
Steve Rubel
Dave Krug @ PRBlogging
Duncan Riley
Ben Bleikamp
Megite
Fire Wolf’s Blog

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Feed Subscription List

June 22, 2006

I’ve got a lot of subscriptions. 235 to be exact. If you’re interested, you can see them here. I take no credit for what you might find.
And that’s my point. I need to go through and slim down because there’s really no reason for some of the feeds. I just don’t read some blogs and [...]

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I’m moving!

June 19, 2006

In an announcement that is sure to dig up my family from the woodworks and likewise tell me who is reading that I did not know was reading (only a select few have actually been told this), I’ll be moving soon. Tentativley, we’re looking at September 30th to move to Richmond, Virginia. Thanks to the [...]

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“Stuck on an Island With a Bunch of Queers”

June 19, 2006

Not really, but does anyone remember Rudy from the first season of Survivor. Me and some buddies used to make fun of him with his Wisoncsin accent saying that his Navy SEAL buddies would have something to say to him about being stuck on an island with a bunch of queers. :)
At any rate, I [...]

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NFL Blogger Needed

June 19, 2006

Hey Football fans–
I’m looking to bring on a football blogger for the b5media sports channel. Specifically, an NFL blogger. This has been posted internally and now I’m posting externally.
If you’re interested, or have questions, send me an email at aaron [at] b5media [dot] com.
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1) A short bio
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Blog Herald Paint Job and My New Gig

June 18, 2006

Today is a big day for fans of the Blog Herald. It has recieved a new paintjob courtesy of Chris Pearson. There are some other changes underway too. If you remember, I wrote about Blog Herald not too long ago.

It would be arrogant to think I can single handedly change things over at [...]

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