Aluma Social Welfare - putting homeless people on the digital map
The Fan Club wanted people to notice the homeless in Malmö. With $0 budget. While people were busy playing gowalla and 4square on their phones.
Website as hidden service: how do?
Was talking to a pal about ssh as hidden service. “It’s simple” he said, and practically dared me to do it. But I didn’t really want ssh, I thought let's do http instead because Adland. Oh okay. So you want to try it too? Lets go.
Permission denied (publickey) on AWS instance Ubuntu
So, you were minding your own business chmodding things left and right while logged in to your Ubuntu instance the other day
When your mysql server has crashed and won't restart, it probably needs repair
But egads, how do you repair it when you can't start it??
When you crashed your EBS instance, restarted, and now you can’t connect via SSH
Lets say you did something kinda not-so-smart and you rebooted your EBS (Elastic Block Store) instance, and for some reason it restarts, but won’t let you in via SSH, or worse… It simply will not restart. Ruh-roh!
Gowalla-Flashmob - I just went around the world to propose to Terri Carlson.
This lady on the left just received a digital proposal from me. Wth? Yes, I'm straight, but Terri Carlson says she will marry for health insurance, which might seem like pretty drastic measures, but as she explains it's her only option.
No, there are no proxies involved in "hacking" gowalla
Why I'm pretty sure my little fly around the world stunt will get me banned is shown in the GetSatifaction forums here, where people are upset about folk who check-in where they are not (some even dislike "drive-by check-ins)
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