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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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