Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15sep2007
Lessons on shutting down a service from Yahoo! Photos, they did that pretty well, I think.
ThingFish is a network-accessable, searchable, extensible datastore. It can be used to store chunks of data on the network in an application-independent way, associate the chunks with other chunks through metadata, and then search for the chunk you need later and fetch it again, all through a REST API over HTTP. Neat.
When the moon peeps over the mountains
Honey, I’ll be on my way
I’m gonna roam this highway
Until the break of day
— Rolling Stones, Key To The Highway
CouchDb views in Ruby instead of Javascript, very cool.
User stories with RSpec’s Story Runner, rbehave merges with RSpec. I’m not convinced.
Set Theory: Should You Believe?, by N J Wildberger. “Set theory as presented to young people simply doesn’t make sense, and the resultant approach to real numbers is in fact a joke!”
The BPG project aims to build a BSD-licensed framework to allow data authentication and encryption using the OpenPGP standard.
Extended XQuery for SOA, by Dino Fancellu, Edmund Gimzewski.
Down with the metre and litre! Long live pints and pounds!, by IHCOYC. “Common sense, æsthetics, and national character have prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback. The European Union has chosen to no longer pressure people in the British Isles to convert exclusively to the metric system.”
Well-behaved Homes, “Michael, in full performance mode, explains that building houses using conductive materials (metal, for instance, which is also used to make pots and pans) instead of using insulating materials (he specifically refers to aerated autoclave concrete, used in the majority of European houses) is inherently problematic from the standpoint of energy efficiency and climate control.”
You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.
— Rolling Stones, 19th Nervous Breakdown
Fire Department Psychiatry, “One of the presenters this morning at Dwell on Design – I believe it was Gwendolyn Wright – mentioned a fire department that had once employed a psychiatrist to help solve mysterious house fires.”
Xen and the Art of System Administration, by Johnny C. Lam. Really an impressive thing I should dig into.
The Wilkins pendulum mystery resolved, how the meter can be defined with a pendulum.
On Social Networks, by Charles Miller.
SCO Group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and there was much rejoicing.
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