It tastes like burning

I just recieved an email from Netflix that states they are keeping the user profiles that so many of their subscribers use.

I use their profiles for managing our queue, and thought that getting rid of them was a pretty bad idea, but I wasn’t going to do anything drastic, like cancel my service. Netflix is just too great. But like many, I am happy to here they are not eliminating profiles.

Here’s what they had to say:

We Are Keeping Netflix Profiles

Dear Chad,

You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.

We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.

-Your friends at Netflix

Using the internal DNS server(Windows 2003 Server), can I point a single URL from a legitimate domain to a certain IP address, while leaving all other variances of that domain pointing to their existing location?

Here’s an example of what I’m looking for.

http://www.notourdomain.com/ needs to route over the internet
http://inside.notourdomain.com/ needs to be routed over an internal VPN connection

Can it be done?

So I’ve created a wiki article to help remind me about it with the easy steps to remove it.

I’m not sure how to describe what exactly Plurk is, but it is similar to twitter, but different.

Well, I’m on plurk now too, you can follow my plurks here.

It’s weird how attached I’ve become to this service, but connectivity to the service has been rather hit or miss for the last couple of weeks. And now it’s been completely unreachable since some point last night.

I understand that this is a free service and how can you really complain about something you get for nothing? Well, while I don’t consider twitter a service I would ever pay money for, but I’ve never been opposed to ads integrated with the tweets.

In this world of web 2.0 services, you either need to be able to scale to the demand or die a slow horrible death. It seems as though twitter is heading for the latter.

Every time I write a post using the Firefox plugin, ScribeFire, it schedules the post instead of actually publishing the content, even though I tell it to publish. Then the real kicker is I can’t figure out how to get it to publish via the Wordpress control. If I tell it to publish, it just goes back to ‘Scheduled’. This is irrating.

Update: Ok, I believe I figured out why ScribeFire schedules the post. ScribeFire has it’s own timestamping functionality and my computers time is two hours ahead of the servers time, so wordpress won’t publish the story until the timestamp is equal to or greater than the ScribeFire timestamp.

1. Download AIR-SDK from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
2.
Create a directory, e.g. “~/AIR-SDK”. Extract the AIR-SDK’s .tar.bz2
file in this directory (cd ~/AIR-SDK; tar jxvf
/path/to/adobeair_linux_sdk_a1_033108.tbz2) so that adl can be found at
“~/AIR-SDK/bin/adl”.
3. Create a directory, e.g. “~/app”. Use
“unzip” to extract the contents of an AIR application: cd ~/app; unzip
/path/to/application_package.air
4. Use adl to launch the application:

~/AIR-SDK/bin/adl -nodebug ~/app/META-INF/AIR/application.xml ~/app

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