| My life |
[May. 8th, 2008|09:27 am] |
All I do: I work, I eat, I shower, that's it. Occasionally I take a dump, just as a sort of treat. I mean that really IS my treat. I sit there and I think - no, I'm not gonna use the laptop, this time is just for me. This is quality time just for me. Is it normal?
Stolen and slightly altered from The Thick of It http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459159/quotes |
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| Scaling is not hard |
[May. 7th, 2008|02:09 pm] |
Here is a little quiz. The following three things are part of the fundamental fabric[A] of the internet.
1) The worlds largest distributed asynchronous best-effort one2many, many2one and one2one communication network. Solves issues of servers being down, clients being down. Works on cell phones, laptops, the web.
2) The worlds most important discovery service. The one example of a functioning hierarchical database used by everyone, maintained by many.
3) The biggest completely peer 2 peer 100% no single point of failure system that runs the internet.
What are they? Please guess. Winner get a free dinner or something.
ps. yes, this meant to be satire, but it is also true
pss. Enjoy this statement: "Design Goals: 3) Scalability - similarly to the point on Open protocols, this should be entirely distributed so as to ensure that the entire system is scalable." (emphasis added)
A) Yes, I mean fabric as in "A complex underlying structure" from http://www.answers.com/fabric&r=67 -- unlike the confusing way that the retardoconsultingenglish at http://groups.google.com/group/getpingd says "fabric".
Do they mean that it is not a complex underlying structure? Or do they not know that fabric means that, and are instead comparing it to "A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers." |
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[May. 4th, 2008|08:04 pm] |
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http://www.ipv6porn.com/ -- planning to host free porn on ipv6 only network, if you can't see it then get your ipv6 now! |
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| Information symmetry saved me $300 |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|06:23 pm] |
On a recent call with continental trying to book a ticket SFO-FLN, my knowledge of what was going on saved me $300
me: I would like to book SFO-FLN
agent: we don't fly to FLN only Sao Paulo and Rio
me: you sell tickets on GOL
agent: who?
me: Golf - Oscar - Lima
agent: let me check
agent: I can get you there on TAM but it is 3 stops
me: try G3 1908
agent: ah, okay
agent: ok, so I can get you there for $2300
me: outbound would be CO 1716 - CO 93 - G3 1908
agent: yes
me: inbound would be G3 1909 - CO 92 - CO 1436
agent: yes
me: and the price is?
agent: $2300
me: that is weird since I see it for $2030
agent: if you see a price online then you can book via them
me: no, this is fare basis CO SFO->FLN HLW3EBR for $1007 and CO FLN->SFO BLWEBR2M for $903
agent: .....
agent: found it the price is with taxes $2021
Now, I don't think this was malice by Continental, just a side effect of the complexity of the system. The same complexity which made it impossible for me to book this on any online website (trust me I tried).
I was going to do it myself in Sabre, but GOL has a weird seat request system. |
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| Posted using LJ Talk... |
[Apr. 4th, 2008|04:54 am] |
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Anyone interesting in joining me on a 10 day trip on ship and railroad from London to San Francisco ? |
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| Posted using LJ Talk... |
[Mar. 21st, 2008|11:56 am] |
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Can anyone recommend a digital voice recorder for dictation? |
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| Posted using LJ Talk... |
[Mar. 20th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
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Can anyone recommend a transcription service? |
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[Mar. 18th, 2008|10:19 pm] |
This was completely and utterly brilliant.
It is the story of networking in the real world, where connections
break and peers disappear. It is the story of your ex-girlfriend
never coming back, no matter how long you wait. It is the story of
the people around you, whose lives you *are* still a part of, getting
really tired of your moping around and refusing to do any work
because you're too depressed, and you just can't help it, and you
can't do anything about it until she comes back, so you just keep
waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Until someone finally gives you
the bitch slap you so richly deserve and you black out. The next
morning you don't remember a thing, much to everyone's grudging relief.
And so it is with the Modem menulet.
http://jjuran.hates-software.com/2008/03/19/8d025605.html |
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| Car fire |
[Mar. 17th, 2008|08:45 pm] |
Car fire close to the apartment, called 911 about it, but they already knew.
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[Mar. 16th, 2008|07:19 pm] |
I am not sure if I love or hate my life.
Yountville on March 21st.
French Laundry
6 fellow travellers will be here or nearby. See who...
San Francisco from March 25th to 26th.
Opensource Business Conference
91 fellow travellers will be here or nearby. See who...
London from March 26th to 27th.
Transit
39 fellow travellers will be here or nearby. See who...
Poznań from March 28th to April 11th.
Work
Santa Clara from April 14th to 16th.
Mysqlconf ?
90 fellow travellers will be here or nearby. See who...
San Francisco on April 22nd.
Web 2.0 Expo
94 fellow travellers will be here or nearby. See who...
( Read more... ) |
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| An additional 56907 miles |
[Mar. 15th, 2008|09:30 am] |
For a total of 348984, no new exciting destinations lately though. |
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[Mar. 14th, 2008|02:23 pm] |
Poll #1154332 Hair
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllShould I get highlights |
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[Mar. 2nd, 2008|03:07 pm] |
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Who wants to join me for a day on the track driving an Ariel Atom sometime in May. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2008|01:39 am] |
Underground music show in oakland, just got back. Excellent evening with Charles Armstrong. Quite a contrast after dinner at E&O.
Reminded me of crawling around east berlin looking for underground clubs in the mid 90s |
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[Feb. 9th, 2008|11:38 pm] |
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Hot water not functioning, forgot laptop bag at in-n-out (got it back), locked myself out of apartment, forgot cellphone in apartment, pick up wrong zipcar, real zipcar had no batter, had to get zipcar I wrongly picked up, fantastic day |
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[Jan. 7th, 2008|11:07 am] |
So, finally Wikia Search is released, and frankly it is not very good at ranking. (Though the whitelist and small index are way better). David wrote a post about it at http://daveman692.livejournal.com/322860.html , and thank you David.
What I think is cool is that we are treating the service as an open source project, with release early, release often. The important bit here is that the code is open (or will be, since I cannot find it right now), the index will be open and the algorithms will be open. It will take time to mature, but I have great hopes it will. (And I hope others will start using the resource too.)
One of the cool things we do is the use of a CDN. Each query has an unique URI and that URI is cached from your closest POP.
From my London colo the effect is dramatic.
crucially% curl -I --tcp-nodelay --write-out '\ntime %{time_total}\n' "http://re.search.wikia.com/search#arsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsd"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:44:46 GMT
Server: PWS/1.1.34
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "10f1-1c3b-ca79cac0"
X-Px: ms m:lhr-tel-n3.panthercdn lhr-tel-n21
Content-Length: 7227
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:15:47 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=593357
Expires: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:34:03 GMT
--- Time 0.497
And when I run it again
crucially% curl -I --tcp-nodelay --write-out '\ntime %{time_total}\n' "http://re.search.wikia.com/search#arsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsd"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:44:49 GMT
Server: PWS/1.1.34
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "10f1-1c3b-ca79cac0"
X-Px: ht lhr-tel-n21
Content-Length: 7227
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:15:47 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=593354
Expires: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:34:03 GMT
--- Time 0.011
It also significantly reduces the load on our servers. |
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| Posted using LJ Talk... |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|05:47 am] |
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I slept 14 hours, this is wonderful |
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