i've been posting over at multiply pretty regularly, mostly my inane music crap. so, i thought i'd update the journal here with the links i've been posting (you know, for those who: a. care, b. haven't gone to mulitply).

its weird, for some reason, all day today, i haven't been able to log into my multiply account.

i just get this error:

Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.

Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused

with all of the weird craziness of the last few months, working on ol' mitt's web site, i decided i'd take a week off when things got quiet. well, that was this week. i've spent the entire week not at work. oh sure, i checked email and even did some emergency support stuff (last night when the hosting provider decided to change firewall rules and blocked out the entire world).

bonus points to anyone who gets the reference

discuss.

i like soup

i just sent:

To: [MR Development Team]
From: blinder
Subject: Re: dev server broke

i know what happened. someone, against my almost constant preaching, pleading, harassing and begging, decided to deploy site.properties from their local machine to the dev machine.

this makes the dev machine a sad panda

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/sigh

any web developers, software engineers, designers out there reading this need a new gig and want to live in boston? send me an email.

the company i work for (molecular) is going through a rather rapid and extraordinary growth and is actively seeking new talent. in fact, we are holding a recruiting open house next tuesday. if you are in the boston area, and are interested in that, let me know.

well, the site i worked on made cnn. cool. its been popping up in the media all over the place, and the general consensus is that its highly sophisticated and better than the competition. cool. i guess i'll take that as a job well done :)

with the launch of last week done, and the dust settling, and the money. holy crap, the money this site has raised in the less than a week its been live just staggers me. its gratifying in a lot of ways that i designed a stable system that has had to cope with a lot of external forces, and has come out like a champ each time.

well, thankfully the client opted for a bit less of an event so that the launch went more quietly than we were originally lead to believe. this is actually a good thing.

i've been working 16 hour days for the last 3 weeks and put in nearly 60 hours during the holiday week. i'm ready for this to be done.

but, we launched today @ 4pm. so mitt romney filed his papers today and the exploratory part of the campaign begins, the site went live and boy did things get interesting.

so if you were ever curious, this is what a dragon/blinder christmas looks like. we just finished wrapping presents and i decided to bring out the digital camera... and of course felt obligated to share it with you (well, not obligated of course, you don't own me!!!)

heh anyway, we are debating if we should start muppets christmas carol (yes, we own it on dvd)

hello everyone. remember me?
yeah i haven't been around much. i just wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a very nice, pleasant and enjoyable holiday.

My question regarding the firehose/submittal question has been sent to CmdrTaco. If i get a response, i will post it.

Thanks,

sol

i know its been a long time. i've been buried in project hell. wrapping up a large content management implementation for a large insurance company (who you have heard of) - using teamsite. for those who have not had the pleasure of developing with teamsite, let me spare you the misery and just say this: everything bad you've heard about it is probably true. i've worked with teamsite on many projects, and i'm as close to an expert on the product as one can be, and i have yet to encounter a pro