My girlfriend Arika is selling her old MacMini 64. Here are the specs.

• 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 Processor
• 256MB of DDR SDRAM (supports up to 1GB)
• 40GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
• Slot Loading Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
• ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card
• Built in 56k Modem and Ethernet
• One Firewire 400 and 2 USB 2.0 Ports
• Built in speakers and headphone jack
• Running Tiger

The same system with more RAM, is being sold here for almost $400. Arika is asking $200. If you are interested, reply in the comments or contact me through whatever channel.

As a reminder, the Mac Min doesn’t come with mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc. This would be ideal for anyone who needs to do testing on a Mac, needs to run some Mac apps, needs a portable computer, or is a KVM fan.

Arrington discusses here.

I apologize for the photos being blurry, but I refuse to use flash on the animals indoors. I think it is fairly inconciderate and right up there with pounding on the glass to get the animals to do something cute.

 

From the post by Jim Buckmaster CEO of  craigslist:

Two days ago you accused craigslist, and me personally, of engaging in criminal acts, reiterating your previous threat to file unwarranted and unconstitutional charges against us that are clearly barred by federal law. As you put it, “We have no alternative but to move forward with criminal investigation and potential prosecution.”

Craig goes on to point out that the combined posts for South Carolina in the “adult services” and “erotic services” category (all of which follow their TOS) total no more than 40 of the  334,180 for the state. I would argue that, at least percentage-wise, the City Pages enables more solicitation of sexual services in their classifieds ads – I mean, have you read some of those ads?

I wonder what the press is going to do with this. Meh.

As an update, when looking for a dominatrix picture to augment this post, i found an article about a man being convicted for making a 12 year old a dominatrix. What the hell is wrong with people? McMaster, go after these people harder and stop wasting time on Craig’s List litigation…

Tom discussed in the official propeller blog last week when we launched it. Screen shot of the UI below.

Anywho, last night Tom called me last night after work to get some stats on the tool since its launch last week. I did some digging.

Here are the usage stats I pulled up. All are ball park figures since I am not at liberty to give exact stats …

• Thousands of people have shared stories with friends (up to 25 friends per “share”)
• Around a quarter Million site members have received a shared story.
• Tens of thousands of groups have received a shared/watched story.
• We don’t have an email stat because we do not record the address of people with which a story is shared via email. I’m actually glad we do not store these emails for privacy sake.

The next step would be to figure out how these numbers helped views, comments, votes for stories that were shared, but that is a battle for another day.  I am pretty excited by these numbers however. It is nice to see tools you make used. However, it couldn’t be done without all the other efforts from the rest of the Propeller team. You guys rock.

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After hearing about Edible Estates I decided I must have a food garden this year somehow.
I got a bit into the whole gardening thing last year with a few trips to Bachman’s and a helping thin out a friend’s mom’s jungle of a yard. From these adventures I now have double white lilacs, a rose bush, mock orange, a bunch of raspberry bushes, and a bunch of assorted stuff which is mostly flowers or “texture”.

This year I decided that I need to have food. I have been mulling over some ideas on how to best do this in an aesthetically pleasing manner. I also want to somehow do a food co-op, so I am not the only schmuck out there weeding the damn thing and can maybe recoup the cost of some of the water. However, for the time being, I need to get some of the seeds started.

To get things kicked of, Arika bought a pack of herbs and flowers a few weeks ago. Yesterday she bought an awesome little greenhouse starter kit from a hardware store with 36 starter dirt pod things. This was actually pretty neat, but probably too expensive for the grand scale I am looking at. So tonight, Arika built a bunch of little greenhouses.

First, we went to Menards and bought a bag of potting soil for $5. Then Arika took a bunch of egg cartons that were piling up and cut off the tops. She then filled those with soil and plopped a couple plastic tupperware bins over the top to act as the green house. Sweet. I should do time lapse photography of the plants, but probably won’t – ha.

Pictures:

Some interesting info and stats:

• 12 teams, 12 MN-Nonprofits
• 120 developers + a number of support staff
• 3360+ hours in lost sleep
• Probably 480+ hours in lost productivity today assuming 4 hours per developer half asleep, checking wrap up info, reconnecting with team members, etc for developers and support staff.
• 120+ chipotle burritos consumed as well as a ton of other great food from Buffalo Wild Wings and more
• Conservative estimate of  700 lbs of food/drink consumed between 5 meals
• Someone estimated that the overall work done (exclusively at the event and not including ongoing support) is estimated at (10 people per team x 24 hours x $125/hour) = $30,000.00 per non-profit. Snap.
• #Webchallenge hit the #7 trend on twitter at some point
• Uncountable numbers of people’s lives benefited by the affect all this has on the non-profits benefited!

Content from the Event:

• The official Webchallenge Twitter , what was displayed on the bigscreen live at the event. Sweet idea.
• Official Sierra Bravo/Nerdery.com wrapup
• Webchallenge tag on Flickr , F1 Webchallenge tag on Flickr , Overnight Website Challenge 09 Flickr Pool
• Webchallenge on Vimeo ,
• Some cool official videos
• More videos from the event.
• MightyPolyMorphinPower Rangers crammed into the photobooth I am just out of lens range. poop
• A wordle featuring team mate Ali Karbassi prominently… yep, twitter whore
• Web Challenge 09 Fashion Report – A lot of teams made their own shirts.
• A recap from a member of the the Ruby 2.2 team (non-profit – Resource Center for the Americas)
• Flickr photos from the Ruby Team
• Photo from 0 hour – time’s up
• A Congrats to Team Praxis & District 202 from Nerdery.com
• How the judging worked – interesting to know
• Code Cowboys Represent at Overnight Website Challenge

Media Coverage:

• Needy Meets Nerdy and Nonprofits benefit from free web makeovers @ Kare11
• Thanks to Innovators and Good People, Better Times Ahead @ Star Tribune
• Teams of computer programmers give free Web site makeovers to 12 nonprofit agencies @ Pioneer Press
  
• Needy Meets Nerdy as Non-Profits get Economic Boost @ MSNBC
• Twelve Nonprofits Picked for Free Web Makeover at Sierra Bravo’s Overnight Website Challenge @ dBusinessNew.com
• Can Nerds Help Non-Profits @ Pitch Engine
• Interviews on the Minnov8 Podcast
• Sierra Bravo offers nonprofits a chance to spiff up Web presence @ Minnapolis-St.Paul Business Journal
• 12 local nonprofits to get free website upgrades from Sierra Bravo @  MinnePost

Our non-profit YEA Corps really loved their site and the Director M.H. started crying at the end of the spiel with the judges. She, and the board member Kris, that showed up at midnight or so for the remainder of the event, were a pleasure to work with. I’m actually excited to help with them on the continued support.  I did feel a wee bit bad that we didn’t talk more after the event was over. However, I’m sure they wanted to go home and sleep just as much as we did.

All in all, the event was once again really fun. The organizers made a smart move by including mealtimes in the 24 hours which shortened the event by 6 hours or so and cut out an entire catered lunch from last year. After eating so much to stay awake, the last thing you need is more food. I did miss having Rock Band and such going on in the main event area on the giant screens. That was sort of a nice addition last year and kept spirits high. I don’t even play Rock Band, hehe. They did however this year have a free photobooth, which was pretty fun. I didn’t really make use of it personally because it kept slipping my mind.

Anywho, I will post some more bits later. I got home and just crashed for a few hours and now am off to Charles’ bday grilling jobber in the snow. Yay more food.