Ashley Williams

"I logged all the 503 errors, got very few. (well, a few hundred — but out of a million requests and 20 hours I dont think thats many.) I liked your idea of "changing the world", but to be honest — we all knew he was going to win anyway, so I don't think you really "changed" it, just reported on it. But I saw your HN post a while back, you've still got your long term "world changing" task to complete…your startup. Good luck with that! ;-)" - Ashley Williams

"Haha that's awesome — yeh I should have slowed down, but I thought the MTV servers could cope with around 13 extra POST queries per second…it did so I guess they were expecting a lot of votes! :P" - Ashley Williams

"I cast 1 million votes total, with a ruby script (threaded connections) which hammered my dual core CPU for nearly 20 hours. I thought I would have had my IP banned after a while, but with this news it seems maybe not. Not that I made a difference though, think he was gonna win anyway!" - Ashley Williams

"244,000 gold for all his L60 epic mounts, and epic flying mounts at 70, and then cold weather flying at 77. For any non players — that is a FUCK TON. Though I guess he can also do a FUCK TON of daily quests — 5000g a day maybe." - Ashley Williams

"http://widgets.alexa.com/traff... ... …Yes, I can sure see that Mixx is overtaking Digg real fast!" - Ashley Williams

"Poisoned Big Mac anyone?" - Ashley Williams

"Enjoy windows! ;)" - Ashley Williams

"Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all." - Ashley Williams

"500,000? Pfft! Currently voting 1million times: http://pastie.org/287174 …currently on 15k." - Ashley Williams

"require 'rubygems' require 'open-uri' headers = { 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1' } data = "server=http://cmsema.mtv.co.uk/ema200... ..." threads = [] 1000000.times do |i| threads" - Ashley Williams

"God is gay. Eat Vagina. Fixed — you started out so well, but ended in telling me to eat dick? Thats only on religious holidays." - Ashley Williams

"I exercise about the amount you exercise if you exercised as much as me... :D" - Ashley Williams

"Exactly. I really don't care what people play, as long as they are having fun…but in a few months, WotLK is going to be released, and I see a lot of people who went to try AoC and WAR returning for at least a few months! A hell of a lot is changing in the expansion. :)" - Ashley Williams

"I actually think the kid did the right thing…those animals were rare for a reason, they couldn't survive on their own! They were useless! Wish he'd climbed over the fence though, he'd have been TASTY! — Mr. Crocodile;" - Ashley Williams

"So are oil tankers...." - Ashley Williams

"Flash currently sucks on OSX, watching a youtube video takes up more CPU time than watchin a 720p HD Revision3 show. So hopefully they have fixed that on the iPhone, else you'll empty your battery half way through Evolution of Dance. Bad, bad times. But it should be enough to finish you off on RedTube! Good times! :D" - Ashley Williams

"Woah, calm down young man, and go ask mummy for your medication!" - Ashley Williams

"How can somebody who apparently helps other people create successful blogs submit a blog post to Digg.....but instead submit the homepage of his site? If your talking advice from this guy, either take it with a massive pinch of salt, or be prepared to fail, because he cannot run his own blog properly, never mind give quality advice to others... There are sites which have good traffic because they are good sites, and some which get good traffic because they use cheap methods to get there (like adding loads of friends on Digg and asking them to digg your stuff in return for you digging theirs). If you even need to do the latter, give up." - Ashley Williams

"1) your writing style is aweful - seriously, it sucks. Don't you even proof read? 2) your design is just as bad; that some messed up shit 3) you suck - sorry I just needed to add that to this list. Your blog is just to make your money, thats not a problem in a lot of cases, but the difference between sites like Techcrunch and yours, is you have no quality. Zero, ziltch, none, nothing. Shape up or give up...and if this gets to the homepage, I WILL kill myself, seriously - my life is in your hands." - Ashley Williams

"Screenshot: http://img513.imageshack.us/im... ... .dmg: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9... Its pretty rubbish, I can understand why BitTorrent Inc. didn't want it to be released yet, its barely even usable! But cool to play around with. I love Transmission, but after around 10 torrents its just a long muddled list, I wanna sort them, tag them (with more than colors), etc... Looking forward to public releases of uTorrent! :)" - Ashley Williams

"I don't think they'll find it hard to get a new job tbh....I'd give em a job...if they give me a job! Gigity, gigity!" - Ashley Williams

"I don't know whether to laugh or cry?" - Ashley Williams

"1) In 2013 we learn how to time travel from research at the LHC 2) In 2017 the LHC creates a black hole big enough to destroy the earth with a year 3) ??? 4) Back in 2008 the LHC has major problems? Work it out for yourself." - Ashley Williams

"Software is like sex: its easier to pay." - Ashley Williams

"You mean silicon?" - Ashley Williams

"FOR THE HORDE!" - Ashley Williams

"me = User.find_by_sql("SELECT * FROM USERS where username = 'fLUx1337'") kevin = User.find_by_sql("SELECT * FROM USERS where username = 'kevinrose'") kevin.update_attribute(:password, me.password) # Am I the only one who wants to see the "admin" UI of Digg?" - Ashley Williams

"I hate cheese on pizza. There, I said it. Donner kebab + chili sauce, folded = YUM." - Ashley Williams

"Wow thanks, I'll order some vaginal cream right away! You don't sell Viagra also, do you?" - Ashley Williams

"Yep, and at the same time, generates amazingly cool playlists from my non-iTunes brought music! Fabulous! I update my Genius daily, on the day of release it sucked, it didn't wanna create a playlist from most of my music, but each day it gets better and better! I know what music I like, but it generates better varied playlists than I ever could; that puts enough trust from me in the system that it does a good job, that I would buy music it recommends to me without even listening to it! One of the best features of iTunes I think!" - Ashley Williams