Wednesday, December 29, 2010

RT @richardbarrow: best Talking Thai/English Dictionary for iPhone/iPad http://ping.fm/CGOJr thailand travel

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Hmm, didn't know that Dianping is the Chinese Yelp http://j.mp/fchExl #大众点评

Monday, December 27, 2010

Amazon working on a method to avoid receiving unwanted gifts! http://j.mp/e6J935
Q:How do we get rid of these toxic Merrill Lynch securities? A: Form a new group in ML and pay them to take them http://j.mp/gDoKKK

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Turns out that mechanical portion of book scanning, turning pages and taking image, is about as fast manually as auto http://j.mp/gOyhJl
100K financial transaction per second; <1ms latency http://j.mp/eqdKo6 <-deep hardware, storage, app model/thread design oltp
DIY book scanning http://j.mp/gXvetR
Aircraft carrier launch without steam turbines using roller coaster catapult launch tech http://j.mp/hfttMC

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Best Western opens 44 room hotel in Vientiane Laos travel

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Historic Saturday Night Live (SNL) episodes available on Netflix Instant highlighted http://j.mp/e73NNT
Chrome CR-48 screen resolution: 1280W x 800H, WXGA 16:10
Is it sociologically or psychologically to have prosthetic limbs that are at least vaguely human? http://bit.ly/fmgvpY

Monday, December 20, 2010

Construction of 3rd & 4th bridges between Thailand & Laos underway travel http://j.mp/el546T
Chrome CR-48: Using webcam: open www.picnik.com > Library > Webcam Photo [Grant Flash permission]. Preview picture seems very pixelated
Chrome Cr-48: Google is developing a free service called Chromoting to remotely access existing PCs and Macs http://j.mp/fkufhn
RT @insideHPC: Berkeley LBL Develops Flexible Reservation Algorithm for Network Provisioning - OSCARS ESnet http://bit.ly/hPAN5N
Possible problems with Google NGrams for scholarly uses: OCR & metadata http://j.mp/hJQyCT <-crank up the lagging humanities tech

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010

datacenter - eBay uses watts/transaction as a common metric for applications & operations http://j.mp/f9AQm9
SGI Air-Cooled Modular DataCenter - 35kw/rack! http://ping.fm/tkKFK
datacenter conferences evaluated: Yes(DataCenterDynamics, Uptime, and 7X24 Exchange); No(Gartner) http://j.mp/gmFjyc
RT @sharad_ag: @loggly cloud based server management system with hadoop, solr, lucene http://bit.ly/gSLqei
iOS 4.2 (iPhone 4 only?) Fast Dormancy to reduce chatty signaling traffic & carrier load http://j.mp/geew3E
Google Demo Slam http://j.mp/fur9FJ
Chrome Cr-48 Shipping Tracker http://j.mp/ia5vsu
China finances restoration of Ta Keo Angkor site Cambodia http://j.mp/eUr3fl
New Siem Reap Cambodia (Angkor) airport will include a new city & industrial estate. http://j.mp/gCvrQj

Friday, December 17, 2010

Google has scanned >11% of published books, about 2*10¹² words. Initial data analysis on 4% http://j.mp/hcmtJl
Netflix at AWS cloud lessons learned: higher instance failure; unpredictable network latency http://j.mp/gD0DGD
Netflix uses AWS, which is somewhat surprising. I wonder what their pipe to Level 3 is. cloud http://j.mp/hhyqFY
Why exactly is my primary storage for music & photos on a local PC disk and not in the, uhh, cloud?

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Chrome "Flags" is like Gmail labs. They are beta addons to enable certain functions, like Media Player playing music in ChromeOS
Apparently 40K VoIP lines is the floor, magic number for feasibility HandWaveAnalysis
Google fiber community award announcements delayed until 2011 http://j.mp/fKWZCb <-only thing predictable about any fiber project is delay

Friday, December 10, 2010

Nice discussion of The Social Network in the NYT beyond the usual dumbass retread comments http://j.mp/eGOxzk
Great story from Ray Manzarek about the Doors 1969 Miami concert, totally evocative of the time http://j.mp/gPIiea

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Diversifying a bond portfolio from an overweighted index, $BND, using ETFs http://j.mp/gcfzt3 financial

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Vietnam and Cambodia to make border map http://j.mp/h3Xm7W
RT @abnerg: ...facebook...deliver video at scale http://ping.fm/rAwRb <-considers case of channel surfing video streams!

Friday, December 03, 2010

UK Foreign Secretary: investigation into death of British aid worker in Afghanistan during US led hostage rescue http://j.mp/g4ldzb
Interesting note in NPR story: "military lawyers...have to approve an operation to capture or kill someone" http://j.mp/hhf6Ck
NY Times rediscovers Lee Marvin in Point Blank (1967) - http://ping.fm/NzI35 movies <-much better than the review
GIS, Google Maps, Ubisense http://j.mp/gdUvE9 <-possibly of use with fiber cable path maps

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Using parasitic worms to mitigate human intestinal disease http://ping.fm/3QKxm medicine
Voip.ms - Worldwide VoIP Origination and Termination http://j.mp/eGEGJX travel phones <-Flyertalk http://j.mp/epxRhH
RT @jalegre: Wow, way cool site => Ben the Bodyguard. Coming soon to iPhone and iPod touch http://bit.ly/eI89YS
RT @VMwareArchitect: PCI-Compliant Cloud Reference Architecture; Cisco, Coalfire, HyTrust, Savvis, VMWare http://bit.ly/ekWq9m

Wednesday, December 01, 2010