May 2008
31 posts
WatchThe design of the South Park site is awesome, almost as great as the content.
John McCain Ellen Degeneres Show - Mahalo →
Ellen ask John Mccain about his stance on gay marriage.
“The CouchDB documentation is dripping with drool-worthy keywords: erlang, shared...”
– Tech-babble: RESTing with CouchDB | SweetSpot’s Blog This combination of technologies turns me on like Stern, Allen, Maher, TCM, bicycles with baskets, and John’s penis, turns on my Matt-man.
“Infrastructure for Amazon, like for Google, is a huge competitive advantage....”
– Amazon Architecture | High Scalability Wow, this says it all if you are building a software company today, doesn’t it.
“Only way to manage as large distributed system is to keep things as simple as...”
– Amazon Architecture | High Scalability Wow, getting that giddy deep down inspired feeling again.
“Amazon doesn’t like middleware because it tends to be framework and not a...”
– Amazon Architecture | High Scalability As someone who has worked for Sprint, Vitria, and Cape Clear, and who rejected middleware early in his career, I think this is spot on.
“Wen’s efforts will absolutely leave a long-lasting influence on government work...”
– In Quake, Apotheosis of Premier ‘Grandpa’ - New York Times The Matt-man was talking recently about the influence of George Bush on future leaders, they will be more apt to think they can get away with lying, not responding to emergencies immediately like New Orleans, and generally abusing their...
“Web applications, by nature, span two drastically different programming domains:...”
– Humani.st → Scalable Web Apps: Erlang + Python Very well summarized.
“Today’s farm economy is very strong, and that is something to celebrate,” he...”
– Defying President Bush, Senate Passes Farm Bill - New York Times Does the president sound sane here? He does to me.
“Shirky goes so far as to calculate that Americans watch close to 200 billion...”
– How to stay very, very dumb / It’s a fact: TV sitcoms destroy your brain. But what else can you do with all that unused mental power? This smart guy took Wikipedia and mashed it up with Yahoo’s new location service, to give you a service that finds Wikipedia pages near you and delivers...
“The greater point about how complexity kills you is really the profound thing,...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back I have learned this the hard-way, a story about this soon.
Sick of my intelligence being insulted
If you watch too much TV or spend too long of a weekend around ignorant religious people, of which most of them are in the Midwest, your intelligence ego is going to take a serious beating. Mine did this last weekend. I spent Mother’s Day at my uncle and aunt’s little ranch in southeastern Kansas. My uncle is a very successful horse trainer and quarter horse reigning champion and...
listened to Web 2.0 podcast on run this morning, interview with Kevin Rose and Gary Vaynerchuk. Damm I was slow, but felt great to get …
Beanstalkd, inspired by memcached and starling (from twitter) http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/
eating an apple
“One of the most jarring tragedies of the disaster was the school collapse in a...”
– ‘No Hope’ for Children Buried in Earthquake - New York Times Dear God!
getting my head around xmpp aka jabber (used in twitter), anybody used it before?
Want something finger danceable for coding music? http://pootee.muxtape.com/
“relationships with corporate tech buyers. What’s more, Apple isn’t...”
– The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit Ironically, they get paged more because of their choice to use Microsoft.
Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit -... →
The title says it all, perhaps we should invest in some good mass transit systems.
“It’s hard to remember a less auspicious time to pursue Arab-Israeli peacemaking...”
– Sheryl Gay Stolberg - On the White House - Election 2008 - Politics - New York Times
“They are going to point at Indiana and say Hillary Clinton is leading by one...”
– Live Blogging the Indiana-North Carolina Primaries - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog Gary, against the hillbillies.
“The second, and more subtle point: Rubyists are dynamists. We have a deep...”
– Adam @ Heroku. a tornado of razorblades
Checking out Sinatra (http://sinatrarb.com/Welcome) while drinking a cocktail at Hotel Montgomery @andymcintosh jealous?
“Even after Mr. Hagee’s Catholic bashing bubbled up in the mainstream media, Mr....”
– The All-White Elephant in the Room - New York Times Fuck Tim Russert!
“That’s why Donald Rumsfeld’s infamous defense of why he did not originally send...”
– Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times