What Should I Do With My Life? The real meaning of success — and how to find it, from fastcompany.com, by Po Bronson who spent two years interviewing 900 people and getting to know 70 who have found their lot in life.
Thermal depolymerization — turn anything into oil. Well, anything carbon-based anyway. A bunch of people called Changing World Technologies have developed a machine that can convert carbon-based matter into oil. That includes humans, plastics, tyres, sewage, medical waste — and turkey guts. Which is why they’re building a new $20 million plant [...]
A slashdot post about writing high-availability services provided a fair few links to interesting stuff about writing high-load socket applications.
High Performance Server Architecture - from pla.typ.us
The C10K problem - from kegel.com
Joe’s spitting in the sawdust Erlang tutorials - sics.se/~joe/
Linux scalability: Accept() scalability on Linux - www.citi.umich.edu
I don’t have time to read it all. [...]
Moved the blog to a new server today, for several very complicated reasons. OK, a fairly simple one; but I’m not mentioning it here.
Friend of a Friend Project - “If people publish information in the FOAF document format, machines will be able to make use of that information. If those files contain “see also” references to other such documents in the Web, we will have a machine-friendly version of today’s hypertext Web”
Javascript guy
Favelets
Every day I get the SFGate morning fix — I don’t remember why I signed up to it, but I’m glad I did. Today’s had an article that discussed the USA’s invasion of Iraq, and how the invasion is being portrayed as a considerate invasion and that the military is treading lightly and avoiding [...]
How good is Senator Richard Alston, Australia’s Minister for Communications, Technology and the Arts. He is blaming his Department for the massive budget blow-out on the Department’s website. Of course, Australian small business isn’t happy that he spent $4 million with multinational Fujitsu when a fraction of that money could have been [...]
How cool are insanely tough and big vehicle things. Check these ones out.
Big ass mining truck thing.
Crazy ass all-terrain vehicle with tracks like tanks.
Godwin’s Law FAQ. I read about Godwin’s Law tonight. It says that the longer a Usenet discussion goes on for, the probability of a discussion turning into a flame war and one of the participants being called a Nazi approaches one. At that point, the participant who is called the Nazi wins [...]