This is cute…. Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to be, And there’s a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong What it was I could not [...]
This is so surreal…. You have to hand it to Hitachi putting themselves out there like that, in fact they are already being ridiculed at slashdot. It looks like Hitachi has pioneered some radical new hard-disk recording technology they are calling Perpendicular Recording. Looks like the inexorable march of Moore’s law will continue for storage…
This (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2005/tc20050324_7462_tc024.htm) is totally insane. If anyone needed to understand why monopolies or near monopolies need to be crushed should go read that article.
I have spent the last few days playing around with Mac OS X 10.3.8, its come along way since the 10.2 days. I can quickly summarize my thoughts in one word: stunning.
One of the things I enjoy most about living in Gotham is the yearly 92nd St Y lecture series. This year along they have Craig Venter, Brian Greene, and the always fun Malcom Gladwell. Last night was an incredible lecture by Ray Kurzweil. Ray is a Big Thinker. His ideas are honking huge and highly [...]
The Economist had a fascinating story about the impact of technology on the developing world. In particular how mobile phones are really impacting the poorest nations on earth. Consider the case of the telephone man. Using a mico-loan a villager will buy a cellphone. When the cellphone rings he will take it to the person [...]
The most amazing music recommendation engine just launched, its UpTo11.net – Music Recommendations and Search. They seem to be using some pretty interesting algorithms to determine what else to check out. The algorithms actually work pretty awesomely. If you haven’t been there, get there now. It just made del.icio.us most popular link of the day, its that good!
If you haven’t heard Jef Raskin passed away. This has saddened me greatly. I love the macintosh, particularly the early ones. I spent much of my youth exploring the mysteries of that machine (not to mention hacking the crap out of the thing). Jef is the guy who invented alot of the magic in that [...]
In the pantheon of the immortals none rate higher than Donald Knuth. Now he has made his musings on computer science available at SCPD – Donald E. Knuth . So stunningly good I can’t say enough good things about it!
Microsoft dipping its toes into the social networking/lifehacking/wiki/full-buzzword-compliance phenomena? If your in the beta and can invite please feel free to invite me… Check it out at Wallop!