Twist is in:
Author: lhl
Ahh, deriving a certain satisfaction about this whole SCO mess. (Cringely summarizes – better than a soap opera!)
The Harvard of Interactive – a glowing writeup of NYU’s ITP. I’ll have to admit, the classes sound like fun: “The Future of the Infrastructure,” “Creative Microcomputing,” “Information Architecture,” “The Poetics of Virtual Space,” “Contagious Media.”
Holy crap this is awesome.
Starting to EAC some CD’s again. See sidebar for latest additions.
Brad with a post on scaling LJ. I spoke w/ Brad one night about some of this stuff at this past SXSW (he has a sweet deal w/ F5), but it’s good to see where they’re going (see memcache info from lj_dev).
A few intersting notes. Brad mentions the uselessness of pconnects for MySQL, (yes) but goes on to blast InnoDB. From my experience, InnoDB is not only technically superior, but faster speedwise as well (some InnoDB vs MyISAM benchmarks). Also, although improvements have been made, MyISAM still has fugly row-level locking. The main real caveat is that there’s no full text search support current in InnoDB (others: slow counts due to multiversioning, auto-incrementing and table status are funky and other misc ‘stuff’).
Nullsoft has just released WASTE (mirror). See /. discussion. Still processing, but it seems like the Nullsoft guys have very much been thinking in a similar direction as I have been, although basically going for a OSS Groove thing – unfortunately, it looks like the protocol isn’t built for scaling (they mention 10-50 nodes).
- VW Transparent Factory (awesome)
- Chandler in Higher Education – “Westwood”
- Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes – interesting discussion, see also: Cory’s post
- GlennF responds to Qualcomm’s memo
- QT slideshow of exhibition [870KB] friends’ senior show I missed
- starbucks picture policy
- SARS virus animation
- Clinton commencement @ Syracuse
I may not be blogging for a while, certainly not until I get my home connection back up (and hopefully getting something setup on the ol’ server)
In the meantime, if you like this blog, you might like some of these:
For some reason my cable at home has been on the fritz, so for the first time in recent memory, I’ve been without Internet access (been taking advantage of the hiptop, am currently on-campus enjoying a very nice day – in the shade of course, so I can see the screen).