October 2008
7 posts
Alan Kay at TED - A powerful idea about teaching...
Alan Kay (wikipedia) - A powerful idea about teaching ideas (TED Talks)
With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can.
My Future Netbook Or Something
If I ever buy a netbook it needs to have a proper OS. Windows is even more of a joke on a netbook than it is on a normal laptop and since I don’t foresee apple coming up with a netbook in the near future, linux is all that’s left. And no, that crap Asus ships and calls linux is not an option. Windows wannabe Xandros with a lame interface - no thank you. Ubuntu is currently the (only)...
Got Handivi
I got my handivi invite yesterday, registered today but I’ll wait until november to start using it. I’ll be out of the country (from the 24th of October to the 3rd of November) and that way I can try it for 1 month by subscribing to TMNs internet service for 1 month (which isn’t exactly cheap at 7.5 eur/mo).
The New Macbooks - October 14 2008
The MB13” lost it’s firewire and didn’t even get a new USB. Apple hates perfipherals… or more likely Jobs hates cables and mac users pay tthe price for this irrationality. FFS Asus crams 3 USBs into its eeepcs but apple can’t put 3 on a damn 13” laptop?
Oh and the MBP now has 2 graphics cards but users currently need to logoff to switch between them. Logging...
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward...
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The last months of Jesse James’s life, from meeting Robert Ford, a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse, to the day Ford shoots him. Jesse’s a wanted man, living under a pseudonym, carrying out a train robbery, disappearing to...
Sunshine (2007)
A team of astronauts are sent to re-ignite the dying sun 50 years into the future.
imdb.com
My rating: 5/10
Noise Sample
How Digg Works is a nice blog post on the digg technology blog that gives an overview of the digg network architecture: load balancers -> application server (apache, memcached, gearman) -> database server (MySQL) / file server (MogileFS). Quoting:
“Digg uses Debian GNU/Linux across the board with a mixture of MySQL, Memcached, MogileFS, Python, PHP, Apache, Gearman and various...
