Mahalo is growing, and although Dan is some sort of wizard, he has to start getting more than 20 minutes of sleep per night. We're looking for another Los Angeles Based Systems Engineer to complement (and compliment!) him:

"You should be expert in massively scalable architectures, how MySQL and Linux interact, how MySQL and memcache interact, sharding, replication (including multiple master replication) and how to tune MySQL based on various schemas for maximum performance and availability. You are a HANDS ON implementor, a get-it-done kind of developer. The right person is a self starter with the 'general get it factor.' You work well with a team of like-minded engineers, and have a genuine desire for excellence."

See Jason's blog for instructions on applying for this Systems Engineer job in Los Angeles. Tell 'em Finke sent you.

It's the week of Grand Theft Auto IV at Mahalo this week. If you play video games like me, you'll probably want to read the Grand Theft Auto 4 Cheats before you check out the Grand Theft Auto 4 Walkthrough.

If the Wii and Mario Kart is more your style, check out my brother's blog. He updates regularly with new insights into the Wii and Wii games.

If you like to read about food, or if eating is one of your hobbies, check out Fast Food Critic. Just try not to read the nutrition information posted with each review.

And for no reason at all, here's our dog Pedro trying on his Halloween costume a few years back. You can see the Scape-o-lantern on the coffee table behind him.

Mozilla updated their recommended add-ons list today (see this blog post by Basil Hashem for the full story), but the main change I'd like to draw your attention to is that both Mahalo Share and Feed Sidebar were added to the list. Hurray!

If you've maintained a Firefox extension for any amount of time, you know that you can accumulate unused entities as you change the UI or add/remove features. They just pile up in your .dtd and .properties files, taking up space. Here's a bash script that will list out any entities or entries in .properties files in your extension that is no longer being used so that you can prune them out.

Usage: $ ./unused-entities.sh path/to/locale-directory/ path/to/content-directory/

#!/bin/bash

echo "Unused entities:"

for dtdfile in `ls $1*.dtd`
do
	awk '/<!ENTITY/ {print $2}' < $dtdfile | while read line
	do
		search=`grep -R "${line}" "$2"`
		if [ "$search" == "" ]
		then
			echo "${line}";
		fi
	done;
done;

echo ""
echo "Unused properties:"

for propfile in `ls $1*.properties`
do
	awk -F "=" '{if (!($2 == "")) { print $1 }}' < $propfile | while read line
	do
		search=`grep -R "${line}" "$2"`
		if [ "$search" == "" ]
		then
			echo "${line}";
		fi
	done;
done;

Today's Mahalo Daily is hilarious: Veronica Belmont fighting spam the only way she knows how: with style. Awwwwww yeah.

And is that really Tay Zonday narrating? Add in a cameo by Kevin Rose, and this one is instant gold.

I was rifling through one of my old sketch books, and I found this editorial cartoon I drew sometime in the late '90s.

Based on the "Do not succeed" tagline, I think I had a weaker grasp of the entire situation (and a more pro-Microsoft position) then than I do now. Little did I know then that I would eventually work for the company that got that whole ball rolling.

Click to view the full version of this picture of C.K. to see why cropping can be a very handy tool.

Sancho teaches Pedro not to disrespect his space.

We finished baking our Christmas cookies last night, and two new ones that we tried turned out especially well: Snowballs (as seen on Ooh you tasty little things..., and marshmallow fudge.

Snowballs: White-chocolate coated buttercreams

Marshmallow fudge

Some of may already know this, but I am no longer with Netscape (voluntarily, no hard feelings there). I felt that it was the right time to move on to something else, and in late November, I did so.

I'm now working for Mahalo, mainly on Mahalo Follow/Social. If you're up for it, you can add me as a friend on Mahalo so that I don't feel so hopelessly alone.