http://tig.nareau.net/blog Musings from The Inscrutable Gargoyle Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:18:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While I am swimming long distances I am rolling very interesting different films and stories in my head in order to forget about swimming and pains that I have in my body. Basically I am like a robot and if someone suddenly “wakes me up,” I usually get angry, because ... http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/07/01/swimming-the-amazon-3274-miles-on-the-world%e2%80%99s-deadliest%c2%a0river-the-blog-of-author-tim-ferriss/ So you need to provide a count or counter for your web application, but you want it to scale. The naive approach would be to simply select count(*) from table. That will fail under load because it requires scanning your entire collection. Semergence » Blog Archive » Scalable Counters for Web ... http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/30/semergence-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-scalable-counters-for-web-applications/ And when it comes to buying into such data services (be they software, a platform, storage or compute time), there are certain questions that need to asked Out of Cloud Chaos Comes Structure - GigaOM I made some comments on the importance of cloud computing in science and the issues we must ... http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/30/out-of-cloud-chaos-comes-structure-gigaom/ In a remarkable 10 hours and 55 minutes on June 20, 2008, climber, skier and photographer Jimmy Chin solo climbed and skied the Grand, Middle and South Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Jimmy Chin Solo Climbs and Skis Teton Trifecta Absolutely amazing! http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/28/jimmy-chin-solo-climbs-and-skis-teton-trifecta/ See how this does http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/a-test-post/ Thinking Like a Cocoa ProgrammerInteresting read, a lot of nice cocoa stuff on this guy's site http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/cocoa/ View Larger Map View Larger Map View Larger Map http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/02/mrg-wildcat-and-cannon-on-satellite/ I wonder if they allow for movies to be paused, the pause location to be stored, and then streamed ont another computer/device elsewhere. Even more than movies this would be a great structure for news, documentaries, etc. http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2008/01/15/itunes-movie-rentals/ North East Surface Map http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2007/12/31/north-east-weather-page/ View Larger Map Powered by ScribeFire. http://tig.nareau.net/blog/index.php/2007/08/21/new-google-embedded-maps/