Rich Bowen: OmniTI: What I've learned
(This is long. Summary: OmniTI is the best technology company around, and they do a lot of things right.)Today is my last day at OmniTI, after just over two years. Yesterday I had my exit interview,...
View ArticleChris Hostetter: Don’t Use Java 7, For Anything
Java 7 GA was released today, but as noted by Uwe Schindler, there are some very frightening bugs in HotSpot Loop optimizations that are enabled by default. In the best case scenario, these bugs cause...
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Isabel Drost: One Ring to rule them all
One Ring to find them One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them:
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Phil Steitz: Correlated failure in distributed systems
Every time I start to get mad at Google for being closed and proprietary, they release something really interesting. The paper, Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems is loaded with...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Oakland cop targets group trying to help injured protester
A group of people trying to help an injured protester was deliberately targeted with a flash grenade by one of the police in Oakland. Protect and serve? Who? (via @camelliablossom) Linked by James...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Marine vet in hospital after last night’s Occupy Oakland incident
Veteran for Peace member Scott Olsen, twice deployed to Iraq, is hospitalized in stable but serious condition with a fractured skull after being struck by a police projectile fired into a crowd in...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Violin cover of Super Mario Brothers soundtrack
If you grew up with Super Mario Brothers, you know the tune. Now hear it played by violinist Teppei Okada. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: White Salmon River freed with a boom
Amazing video from the breech of the Condit Dam on the White Salmon River on Wednesday. It’s all part of a large-scale multi-year dam removal and river recovery project going on in Oregon. Linked by...
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James Duncan: Edition Zero Lessons
Earlier today, I dropped off the complete set of packages at the post office to fulfill orders from my recent iPhone at Macworld 2007. The production process took a lot longer than I ever thought...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Macworld reviews LaCie’s Thunderbolt Little Big Disk
Looks like LaCie’s new Thunderbolt-based Little Big Disk is out. In 1TB and 2TB variants using regular hard drives and a 240GB version using SSDs, it looks promising. The kicker is that it requires an...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Cleaning up the WYSIWYG HTML
My blog is built with Hippo CMS and the Hippo Site Toolkit. This means that I use the Xinha (Is Not HtmlArea) WYSIWYG editor to type the content of my blogposts. The Xinha editor does its job, but has...
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Nick Kew: Noise pollution
Tunes like the Londonderry Air or Simon&Garfunkel numbers may be inoffensive enough at first hearing. Even enjoyable in a sufficiently fine rendition. But when they’re muzaked to buggery and...
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Bryan Pendleton: Big milestone for the new Bay Bridge
This week, a major milestone in the construction of the new Bay Bridge: the last section of deck for the suspension segment is now in place. I like this article in the Contra Costa Times because it...
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Yoav Shapira: Book review: "Diary of Manhattan Call Girl"
A couple of days I finished reading Tracy Quan's novel, "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl." This novel was recommended by a friend (who is not a call girl ;)) and it was a strange, but good, read. It...
View ArticleJames Duncan: St. John’s Bridge
I went out shooting with Rick LePage today and we ended up exploring the area around St. John’s Bridge. It was a beautiful day to shoot and was much needed after hectic weeks, cancelled trips, and the...
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Ruwan Linton: UltraESB 1.6.1 released!
The UltraESB is now getting even more traction from among enterprise users. However, we will not keep maintenance releases away from any of our free and open source users, and will frequently publish...
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Ortwin Glück: [Food] Kaki jam
Winter is closing in. That's the time when the kaki ripen. So today I made delicious jam from kaki and apple. I used 8 very ripe kaki fruits (about 2 kilograms) 1 large Boskoop apple 1 kg of sugar...
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Yoav Shapira: Movie review: Hanna
I love assassin-oriented movies, so I rented "Hanna" on my Apple TV the other day. It was a pretty fun movie, though certainly not in the realm of the Jason Bourne films. Hanna, the protagonist, is a...
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Yoav Shapira: Movie review: Margin Call
Last night I watched the movie "Margin Call" at the Coolidge Corner cinema. It was a decent movie: not great, not bad. I don't have a ton to say about it. One of my favorite things about the movie...
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Nick Kew: Stealth Republic?
The institution of the monarchy has long been in decline. Yet almost all the powers that be at least pay lip-service to it. Yet while claiming to support it, they’re dismantling it by stealth. Blair...
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