phauna.org

We’re on the way to it. Starting with our very own food company!

I created a page about what this site is (hint: it’s not about software viruses!).

Google likes to talk about how they’re user-oriented, and this back-and-forth is how they make their software projects happen:
User feedback is always an important part of our product development process [...]
(from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/real-world-testing.html)
But what I want to know is, for general feedback, how do you give it to them? They certainly don’t make it easy [...]

Really? It’s the 12th largest US company. That seems crazy.

It’s a hydrogen fuel-cell powered bike, that looks cool and has the following sweet properties:

0-50 in 12.1s
100+ mile range
no transmission
completely silent
you can drink the emissions

mail.phauna.org, smtp.phauna.org, and imap.phauna.org are all changing from 208.68.209.89 to 208.68.209.90. This is so that I can get reverse DNS working for the mail server IP. Sorry for any inconvenience.

everydns, our free DNS provider, seems to be getting pwnzd by a botnet. The attack started last Friday, and the guys at everydns thought they had it fixed by Sunday. They were down again this evening. It’s starting to look like maybe everydns is just flat going to lose, so I’m moving [...]

There will probably be some intermittent issues this weekend as I move things to a new virtual host I rented.
The major plus side is that after everything is moved, it will all be much faster.

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Spam sucks. It especially sucks for me because:

I can’t punt by using gmail or hosted gmail–I need to host phauna.org email myself for reasons not related to spam.

As a bit of an idealist, I like to think I shouldn’t have to hide my email address from the world, so it’s posted in a number [...]

Here’s a simple, but sweet idea: ordinary batteries that recharge by plugging into a usb port.
I like it; having all that specialized apparatus to recharge your rechargables was always a big downside.