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Interesting article about how Peets, the progenitor of Starbucks, is becoming more and more like them.
Luckily there's a plenty of alternatives brewing around here. Oakland's Blue Bottle Coffee is still tops for me. How about you? Have you seen places like Blue Bottle spring up in your area?
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Just caught up 10 days worth of Neighborhood posts. I now have Vox fatigue combined with Vox guilt. I didn't even read comments, for shame :( After this post I'll need to check on the 'ol LiveJournal Friends page. Don't even ask about the umpteem BlogLines blogs stuck at 200 posts...
Hi5 has a new Skins system that actually can make profile pages look good. I had some input early on and made sure Vox and the SixApart styles were part of the inspiration. It's coming out really well and we've received over 200 submissions. Check out the snazzy new profile page? Designers can check out the specs page.
Embeds are evil. They mess up divs and tables and are often pasted in haphazardly. Amit came up with an amazing solution. Use JTidy to clean up the user submitted content. Tags match and broken html goes bye-bye!
Now back to the super-secret Hi5 Project Funk.
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Baron von Luxxury is an old co-worker of mine from the Red Hat days selling ads for redhat.com. Check out the cute kitty in the youtube vid above.
I can't forget the time we accidentally ran run-of-network ads and you found banner ads for Dennys and some online Hair-Net website running next to Linux content.
Or the wonderful partnership with Keen.com to provide amateur linux support over the phone. I hear that they're mostly psychics and phone sex these days.
In any case check out Luxxury when you can get the chance. They play all over the Bay Area at times.
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Join me this thursday at 4pm for yet another Six Apart engineering talk entitled:
Explore the fun and tortuous journey of a web request. Starting from the click on a link across the net to the deepest backend server and back to a page displayed on your screen.
We'll look at the latest state of the art in Cache control headers, caching proxies, accelerators, content distribution networks (like Akamai), Keynote metrics and more!
Included in this weeks presentation is a short film clip about how the Internet resembles the six-sigma quality dabbawallas of Mumbai.
