MarkMaunder dot com

WTF is wrong with hosted gmail?

I can’t log in to either of my hosted gmail accounts. Anyone else? UPDATE: I contacted gmail support and apparently they occasionally lock accounts due to suspicious activity. I think I had two different hosted gmail accounts open in tabs in the same browser. Very suspicious. Their suggestion: contact them. The response: occasionally we lock […]

August 14, 2007 | Technology | No comments

Perseids meteor shower photo

It took me about an hour to catch one of these. I shot this with probably the worst choice in camera. A Canon Powershot S50 which is awesome for everything but time lapse photography. It has a 15 second maximum exposure and you have to wait 15 seconds after each exposure while the camera processes. […]

August 13, 2007 | Fun | 1 comment

Fly fishing the Dream Stream

I just posted my first entry on Geojoey in a while. I’m in Colorado this week and spent yesterday fishing an amazing little river in the Rockies about 50 miles west of Colorado Springs called the Dream Stream by the locals. Full entry on Geojoey.com.

August 11, 2007 | Fly Fishing | No comments

Drive

I just drove from Seattle to Denver where I’m spending a week. We took the northern route through Montana and I stopped and did a tiny bit of fishing in the Clarke Fork and Yellowstone rivers. I just caught one small rainbow on a dry fly in the clarke fork which wasn’t bad considering it […]

August 7, 2007 | Fun | No comments

X-Games Video: Jake Brown's unbelievable 40 foot fall

Jake Brown fell 40 feet and landed so hard in the transition at the X-Games last night that his shoes flew off. Forward to the end of the vid and watch the slowmo version. Brown spent Thursday night in a local hospital, where he was treated for a bleeding liver, two sprained wrists, a bruised […]

August 3, 2007 | Startups | No comments

A good book

If you’re a bit of a sci-fi fan, a bit of a maritime adventure fan, like all things engineering, then I have just the book for you. The Ice Limit is one of the best paperbacks I’ve read for a very very long time.

August 3, 2007 | Startups | No comments

How hedge funds die

Marc Andreessen has a great post on the collapse of the Sowood hedge fund recently. Reading this I have a weird sense of deja-vu. LTCM collapsed while I was working at Credit Suisse First Boston in Canary Wharf, London. CSFB lost about $700 million. Around the same time the Russian economy took a dip and […]

August 3, 2007 | Business | 1 comment

Fly fishing South Fork of the Snoqualmie river

After getting a TON of work done today I drove up to the South Fork of the Snoqualmie river to fish a secret spot I’ve discovered fairly high up in the mountains. There’s a forgotten path down to the river, you scramble over some rocks, slide down a small waterfall,  boulder around a bend in […]

August 2, 2007 | Fly Fishing | 4 comments

Why linux rocks

I’m busy decommissioning an old server I’ve had for almost a year. I’ve used it for dev and testing and installed a bunch of crap on it.  It has never required a reboot and has been busily chugging away. Here’s it’s uptime: 11:20:46 up 333 days,  8:13,  1 user,  load average: 1.02, 1.34, 1.21 The […]

August 2, 2007 | Startups | No comments

Configuring apache 2.2.4 + mod_perl 2.0 + php 5.2.3 + libapreq with a worker MPM

I couldn’t find any docs on compiling mod_perl2 alongside php5 with apache 2.2, so hopefully this helps someone. I’ve always statically compiled mod_perl into apache, but the easiest way to get mod_perl to play nice with PHP under apache2 is to compile them as DSO’s or dynamic modules that are inserted at runtime. I’ve tested […]

August 1, 2007 | Code | 4 comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.