ELM
My son, Eli Louis Mariano, was born Friday, 5 August 2011 at 4:45 ET. 7 pounds, 0 ounces and 19 inches tall. Speechless.
Army of the 12 Monkeys?
Netflix is a pretty big operation and they do some serious up-front testing and hardening of their systems which you can read about here: The…
Archived Mix Sets
These are a couple of my DJ sets from a while back – please enjoy: Chappa’ai Visual Flight
More Scale
CERN ATLAS produces up to 320M bytes per second, followed by CMS with 220M Bps and has an open source hardware effort. Amazon Cloud Now…
An Eventful Day
I admit to being a little bit of a NASA fanboy. Not the top-heavy NASA but the starry-eyed, future-looking and quietly heroic NASA. Not just…
Way Up in The Sky
I don’t think that whenever I’ve flown a C172 that this ever happened: @nprnews: Photo: When planes fly through certain types of clouds, they can…
Java on Azure!
Check this out — Building Java applications on Windows Azure gets easier with the new version of the Eclipse plugin — from the Microsoft Interoperability…
Double Time?
What would you do if you could effectively rejuvinate and turn back aging? It’s not just sci-fi anymore – there is more research to be…
@ Scale
Most people don’t have to deal with scale on the size of Google, Facebook, Twitter, et al. Scale for the traditional website, neonate cloud-based site,…
Funky on 5
Today my copy of Firefox automagically updated itself to 5.0. This was only slightly annoying because it never asked me (and come to think of…
Well This is Interesting
I heard it from a little birdie that Microsoft is going to make inbound data transfers free on Azure starting on July 1st.
Entry
It’s been many years since I actually kept a blog and I thought it was about time to reboot the idea. The intent is to…