➠ August 3, 2007
Welcome to Hadoop!
Open-source project to allow the creation of massive massively-parallelized systems. I’m so glad my CompSci course taught me about parallel programming in 1997, because it’s only going to become more important.
Ohloh, the open source network
Open-source-software social network, tracking both projects and people.
Joy and I are sat in bed, watching the Sox, playing Scrabble against each other on our respective MacBooks. This is the future.
Posted to Twitter at 10:33 p.m.
Back from the land of living (sales-tax-)free or dying. Joy’s unwrapping her MacBook. Curious to see how a non-geek “switcher” takes to OSX.
Posted to Twitter at 9:07 p.m.
meemix: Internet radio that gets you
Best online radio station I’ve played with in a while. Definitely a step-above Pandora — Meemix has a social edge Pandora lacks — and the “Pulse” control is nice too.
SPIN.com: Days of the Leak
Article about the inevitability of records being leaked pre-release. I can’t remember the last time I bought an album that I hadn’t listened to already via download. All hail OiNK!
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Woozy and sweaty. Should probably have stayed off sick another day. Oh well, I’m here now. Let’s BREAK SOME CODE!
Posted to Twitter at 1:31 p.m.
YouTube - R-Rated Trailer for 'Superbad'
This looks fab — New “teen” comedy written by Seth Rogen and produced by Judd Apatow.
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