http://photo.askthefool.com is back. It has new pictures from my Alaska trip and a few from this year. Oxford pictures are still down as they still need pruning, date fixing, enhancing, and tagging. The main problem with them is I need to synchronize timestamps from different people’s pictures. Technical note: While my new photo gallery still [...]
Mini-feeds have a few problems. Not because people don’t like them and not because of the privacy issues it raises. Facebook has been tracking this relational data for years now, and this new feature is merely making that information available to its users. Facebook has a good enough product that people will use it regardless [...]
Minneapolis, MN – Best Buy Corporation announced today that its elite arsenal of Geek Squad technical support agents will be upgrading their fleet of Geekmobiles from Volkswagen Beetles to Lamborghini Countaches in anticipation of the release of Windows Vista. Company officials determined the upgrade was necessary to preserve satisfactory response times because of the expected [...]
I’ve been meaning to write this story for couple weeks, but I never got around to it. Here goes: On my drive back home from Bloomington I had to pass through the mountains. Roughly 10 miles before entering the Rockies a blue R32 with darkly tinted windows pulls up next to me. For those you [...]
I’ve removed every use of the JOIN function when making queries to my database which powers my photoGallery after reading Cal Henderson’s presentation from 2004 on how flickr works. Instead of using JOINs I now use multiple copies of data, and a lot more SELECTs. Performance went up nearly 6 fold and the resources used [...]
How google does translation for Chinese and Arabic.
Google Really Is Evil – I’m doing the quest too and I thought the EXACT same thing when it started.
The HIPerWall at the University of California, Irvine is a giant monitor made from 50 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays.
What do they use in the movies when you see people snorting cocaine? – Powdered sugar, baking powder, powdered milk, soy baby formula, or Ovaltine.