Entries From July, 2008

Why Earthquakes Are Fun

Posted on Jul 29, 2008 - 1:10 PM Comments (1)

So we just had a decent earthquake (5.8 downgraded to 5.4) here in Los Angeles area. I've lived in So. Cal for most of my life and as a result, I've been through plenty of quakes. The scariest one I can remember is the Northridge quake of 1994.

Normally I would say there is nothing "fun" about an earthquake, but since so many people move to LA every year, when a quake hits it's usually the first they've experienced. Watching them freak out can be pretty entertaining. I wish I had a video camera ...

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Amazon S3 Outages

Posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 9:54 AM Comments (1)

I, like a lot of others, make use of the Amazon S3 service for data storage "in the cloud". The service is a huge success and normally behaves extremely stable.

Yesterday there was a very large S3 outage which caused many online companies to suffer outages as well. There was an interesting piece over at ReadWriteWeb asking "How Much Is To Much?".

I've been using S3 for nearly 2 years and have only experienced trouble twice. I wrote about the previous experience and that outage lasted about 3 hours. Yesterday however the outage was more than 6 hours!

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Peter For President - Help Me Get Elected

Posted on Jul 18, 2008 - 11:37 AM Comments (1)

I was recently contacted by Channel 3 news.. Here is the story they put together.

I am seriously considering running.. Any input?

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I Can Control You With My Words

Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 3:23 PM Comments (0)

I've written in the past about Hypnotic Writing. Since I found the book by Joe Vitale I have been very interested in learning more about the science behind it and how I can increase my profit from it.

Today I stumbled across a very useful reference article. I suggest you read it if you are interested in this sort of writing technique. In fact the guys entire blog is one great big resource for this particular subject.

It's fairly obvious from my blog posts that I am no great writer. I'm not even a good one. The ...

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Wanna Know Why Defeat Is Your Friend?

Posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 11:08 AM Comments (0)

It is damn near impossible to reach huge success without going through multiple set backs. Doesn't matter whether you come from a poor family or rich family. In the end, we are all human and all humans make mistakes. Aside from myself, there are no perfect human beings out there. Ahem.

Want to know how to turn defeat into a positive?

What happens when you hit some sort of defeat or setback? One of these three things happens:


You Quit - You are so defeated that you totally give up. You accept that you just aren't good enough and ...

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