Posted: May 30th, 2007 | Author: edward | Filed under: Autos | 3 Comments »
If you’ve ever wondered what is so great about a Ferrari 599 GTB that it costs a quarter of a million dollars and can take over 2 years to be delivered, then you’ve should check out Ultimate Factories on the National Geographic Channel. The Ferrari episode is on tomorrow at 5pm. Hopefully, you’ve got NGC in HD so you can see this amazing place in detail. Basically, they build each Ferrari by hand, from creating individual casts for every single engine forged, to the team of seamstresses that sew each interior by hand. It’s incredibly inefficient, and magical at the same time that such high levels of human craftsmanship are still employed in producing these modern masterworks. What I loved seeing was the intense focus on perfection, and the ability to reject a vehicle at any step. Final quality control is completed by professional drivers who take each car around their private race track to ensure that it meets expectations.
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 | Author: edward | Filed under: out of doughnuts ramblings, web hosting | No Comments »
I’ve just moved my blog over to MediaTemple. I found it to be affordable and they provide much needed SSH access even on their cheapest plans. After dealing with numerous performance issues with my previous host, I decided I’d had enough and chose to move. Now page loads are more than twice as fast, even with my ridiculous set of includes.
Posted: May 9th, 2007 | Author: edward | Filed under: Yahoo, flickr, pipes | No Comments »
Created by one of our users, this Pipe creates a feed of your Flickr Contacts’ favorite photos. (Here, I’m viewing the output in Google Reader)
He’s posted it here in the Flickr Hacks Group. This is an excellent Pipe to look at for advanced users combining Split, For Each, Regex and Sub Pipes to create the end result. He also makes great use of the Prompt fields in the user inputs of the Sub Pipes to create a readable interface in the primary Pipe.
Posted: May 4th, 2007 | Author: edward | Filed under: out of doughnuts ramblings | 1 Comment »
My blog dying a slow death and while I think about ways to rectify that, let me point direct you to Caterina whose blog has become full of life again.
I hope that everyone has been watching the Golden State Warriors put on a show over the past 2 weeks. It has been entertaining drama watching this band of scrappers have their way with the talented Mavericks. It’s always fun pulling for the underdog and I can’t think of anything more exciting to watch right now.