The server on which our site is hosted was switched last week, resulting in some issues. I believe most of them have been sorted out at this point. If you notice anything broken on the site, please let me know though.

Google Wave is releasing in Beta to about 100,000 people today. I have at least one staff member who is excited about this.

Our office is starting to look a little bit more business-like and comfortable. The other day we actually had a water-cooler conversation. The reception desk is courtesy of Erez at MIT Consulting, who didn’t need it any more. Moving it required a bit of “sweat equity”.

[Sorry – due to a server move, the photo gallery is temporarily broken]

A few people have asked me for photos. Below are a couple from the old office, and then snapshots of what the move looked like, and what the office looks like with everything set up. I’ve obscured people’s faces to protect the identity of the innocent…

We’re in the process of setting up and moving into our new offices. We should be fully moved in by early next week.

We have a customer who has a radio show, which we’ve been recording and posting up to her website for a while. We were using a Windows box with an ancient version of Replay Radio to do the recording daily, and then every few days we used an audio program to compress the files down in size, and then ftp’ed them up, after which we had to manually go into the database to add them into a list. As you can imagine, a bit time consuming.

I finally got around to automating the process using Linux.

Here’s how it works:

1. Create a shell script that records the show using mplayer
2. Create a shell script to stop the recording
3. Create yet another shell script to upload the file using ftp
4. Create a php script to check the remote upload folder, and add new files into the database
5. Create a shell script to run the remote batch checker using curl
6. Set everything up in cron

Took me a bit of time to get it all right, but that’s going to save a whole bunch of time later on.

I’ll give details in another post if anyone is interested.

Ever read a book and then wish you hadn’t? Not because the book is bad, but rather because you realize that somebody has already beaten you to the punch?

Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon for the first time. The last lunar landing took place in 1972, before I was born. Here’s looking forward to a return.

We’ve finally broken through the one million ranking for Alexa. For those not familiar with it, Alexa.com provides rankings which sites have the highest traffic – the lower the number, the better. It isn’t necessarily accurate, but it is nice to watch as the site’s traffic slowly climbs.