DISQUS

Obviously I don't suck :)

$10B is a drop in the bucket compared to the capital they'll need over the next couple years. Why anyone would buy their stock given the unbelievably massive dilution that is going to take place is beyond me.

Congrats Ardell, your ass is now famous :)

While the real estate industry has been slower to adopt blogging and technology in general than most, I see it starting to pick up steam. Over at ActiveRain we have a community blogging platform that's picked up about 17k members (ok only about 3k have actively blogged) in the last 8 months.

Blogging has shown itself to be a particularly effective marketing tool in real estate. There are a large number of (very successful) agents, who's blog is their primary business generator. I think the reason is it's effective is that consumers have been bombarded with advertising, spam and lead aggregation companies. A blog tends to help the agent generate trust in a low pressure environment while the consumer can maintain their anonymity.

Yeah, that was one scary day, maybe it had something to do with Halloween fast approaching. Multiple hard drive failures on our database server at the same time (maybe a power surge or something). We have a RAID array (redundant drives) but when several fail at once you're in trouble.

Not knowing how much data was lost until the data center retreived our backups from tape. Then realizing image files weren't in the backup set, and waiting for our data center to try and boot the failed drives to recover data. Trust me I almost had a heart attack several times during the day.

In the end we only lost about 1 hour worth of data in the middle of the night but that sure ruined our weekend.

First hardware failure we've had in 2 1/2 years with the datacenter.