Category Archives: General

Angry Birds crushes Interactive Connected Reality™

This breaks a lot of my rules. The connection is probably mostly emotional. For most of the people in the event, there is little to interact with (other than as an observer). In fact, I wonder if there is even … Continue reading

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Open University Teaches Interactive Connected Reality™

Open University (which to my surprise isn’t free) now offers a course in what sounds exactly like my description of Interactive Connected Reality™. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/06/hands-on-learning-with-the-senseboard-ubiquitous-computing-device.html http://www.silicon.com/technology/software/2011/06/13/open-university-revamps-degrees-with-employers-in-mind-and-its-own-box-of-tricks-39747526/

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McDonalds is going Interactive Connected Reality™

Again, it’s a just a big shared screen, but it does sound fun, and hey free french fries! http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/05/mcdonalds-interactive-pong-billboard-brings-big-screen-elation/

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Refining the definition of Interactive Connected Reality™

Here’s a quick video by Bloomberg demoing some Interactive Connected Reality™. In it, they mention chumby Pogoplug Karotz I understand why they are grouped together, but the interactive nature of chumby and Karotz bring them closer into the realm that … Continue reading

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Interactive Connected Reality™

I believe I am coining a new phrase: Interactive Connected Reality ™ I am certainly not inventing the concept. People have been connecting things to the internet for a long time. I believe MIT or CMU had a soda machine … Continue reading

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Windows is nicer with mintty

I’m stuck using Windows at work, so I use cygwin a lot. rxvt was my primary terminal until I recently got Windows 7 and it became a bit awkward. I remember trying mintty when it was first released. I don’t … Continue reading

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mod_pagespeed for Apache

Google released a potentially awesome Apache mod to optimize for the client before serving. Read more here: http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/ I’m looking forward to playing with it.

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Understanding Virtualization and Over-Subscription

This post helped me to understand Virtualization and Over-Subscription: http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/08/virtualization-and-over-subscription.html

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Database as a Service

This is interesting…A cloud based database as a service: http://xeround.com/ Their whitepaper is interesting: http://xeround.com/pdf/Xeround_Technical_White_Paper.pdf Their mention of “patented technology” is kind of a turn off for me. Also, they mention the concept of ACID. That strikes me as an … Continue reading

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A new memcached replacement?

I ran across this today: http://code.google.com/p/redis/ It warrants playing with.

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