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The only digit that can be 1/5 the last would be 1 if the last were 5 (because 2/10 doesn't work, 10 isn't a single digit and they need to be whole).

From there, digits 2 and 3 are the last (5) multiplied by 3. So: 1155. Add those up: 1 + 1 + 5 + 5 = 12.

I think. :)

Oddly enough, I worked on a project that had a whole show dedicated to a site that I built. There were banner ads on Oprah's website and a bumper in the show with the URL on it.

My boss and I sat watching and waiting and we saw virtually no effect from the show whatsoever. (If you were just watching top on the servers without knowing Oprah was talking about it, you would have assumed it was any other day.)

We spent time theorizing why this was. We came up with the following:

- The site that we built has a relatively long URL, so maybe it was hard to remember.

- The bumper that the URL appear at was towards the end of the show, at which point we figured most stay at home moms/dads/people that watch Oprah were probably starting to get dinner ready.

- I'm not sure that people that watch Oprah are the same people that eagerly sit in front of the TV with an iPad/laptop/etc.

Of course, your mileage may vary. If you're using Rackspace, I'd say you're in good hands. It may be worth mentioning to them when it's going to happen and seeing what they can do in case of sudden load, but for us it certainly wasn't the huge gush we were expecting/hoping for.

I suppose it depends on the circumstance. I built something for an event at my company on Monday that utilized the Foursquare API to grab recent checkins at the event and make a "slot machine" that randomly picked a winner.

And, you may remember, Foursquare was down pretty much all day Monday. It was an extra thing for the event that I did after hours, a bit reluctant to be spending precious weekend time building it, but I figured it would be worth it. It wasn't.

Obviously, we should have used more than just Foursquare, aggregating checkins across multiple services — I mean, the event was about social media — but unfortunately there wasn't anymore time to do so.

I suppose the truth of the matter is that you shouldn't rely on any third-party service (especially free ones... Facebook and your ever-changing API, I'm looking at you).

Now if we could just get our clients to understand that.

(Warning, shameless self promotion.)

I co-run a thing called the Build Guild. We are web people that gather at a local bar once per month to talk about anything that seems interesting: web stuff, venting about clients, things completely unrelated to the web, etc. You know when you go to meet ups and after the event you go to the bar? That bar part is our entire meet up.

What seems like arbitrary drinking actually results in a really close network of friends that you can trust, and the conversations always continue on into the spaces between drinking events. Oh, we also have a thing for mustaches.

If you're near any of the cities we're in, I'd recommend stopping by, having a drink and high-fiving someone. You never know who you'll meet. :)

Check it: http://buildguild.org

(Full disclosure: even if I didn't co-run it, I'd still recommend it to you. I didn't start the Build Guild, but was so into the idea that I eventually moved my way into running a chapter.)

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This app is a great idea. I really like the ability to pin data from selecting it.

An idea: it would be cool if I could drag links over the left in landscape mode. Sometimes when I browse sites, I'll come across a site with three or four links to click. In a browser, I can open multiple tabs. This would be great if I could drag'em over to a pin to look at at my leisure instead of Safari's cumbersome window-switching interface.

Also, the ability to sync notes would be great (even if these could somehow combine with the current Notes app!).

Finally (this may be overkill), but it would be cool if two-finger scrolling would let you scroll inside of a note if it goes beyond the size of the post-it. I know I can click on it, this would be for quick reference.

All in all, nice work! It's not buggy, it's fast, responsive, and does something that I've always kinda wished Safari could do.

Regardless of my opinions on whether China has a right to block things or not, I'm going to say that I'll wait for a week to see if this is actually a huge blockage of Google's apps or if this is just "a bad day for Google in China."

If you look at all of their reports, there are some days that things seems more blocked than normal. (Check out May 26 and June 18.) I'm not sure if this is just bad data getting into the system or what — maybe when it was time to ping services they couldn't. For the most part things go back online the next day.

This does seem to be the first time things are in the red, but I think it's too early to assume everything is gone for good.

Awesome, but man, why do people using a Surface always look like dragging is such a struggle? I feel like the "fling" of the iPad is what makes it feel appealing versus the Surface and its "tense," slow-looking dragging.

(Yes, I'm judging tablets by their... covers?)