• catbird.org: Born (shoes)… again
  My Born shoes have cracked a sole again. As my wife blogs, “Are these shoes designed to only last 6 months? Ridiculous. I won’t even bother contacting the company this time. But really, we are done with Born shoes.”
  (tags: Shoes shopping born retail)
• Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle
  I’ve been thinking about getting a Kindle for my wife (seriously;-) Seth has some great observations (as usual) “I got a Kindle. It’s a fascinating device, unlike almost any other launched by a significant tech company. Here’s why…”
  (tags: amazon kindle books work gadgets hardware sethgodin)
• HAProxy – The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
  “a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications…suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.”
  (tags: applications architecture cluster scalability performance infrastructure loadbalancing web development)

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