For future reference:
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/announcing-the-best-sellers-api/
Updated:
They just opened up an Articles API. Here is the main developer’s page:
http://developer.nytimes.com/
The cloud platform players are shaking out. Obvioulsy, Google, Salesforce, Amazon are leading the pack and newer entrants like Microsoft are trying to stake their own claim. This is a good article that describes some of the characteristics of a successfull cloud platform:
I just finished plowing through The Forever War by Dexter Filkins. It is a first-hand, journalistic account of the wars in Afghanistand and Iraq. It is raw and "on the ground", unlike much of the coverage that is/was depicted in the news (especially TV). It is a real page turner and reads more like fiction. Filkins’ style is laid back, unpretentious and concise. For me, it was an especially interesting read, because it was a look back at a lot of the events and people that I had read about over the past five years (e.g., Chalabi, Sistani, Bremer, Abu Ghraib, Falluja, Sadr, etc.) This book is not a book of facts or history, but a single person’s memoir of what took place and how the "on the ground" experience stands in stark constrast to what we all saw on the daily evening news. Highly recommend this!
I successfully finished ripping my complete CD collection, which is probably only about 400 CDs. Now, I can stream it using DAAP and have any iTunes client pick it up. (Too bad that Songbird does not have solid, built-in support for DAAP. I had only mild success with the DAAP plugin.) What is really cool is that my complete CD collection only took up 1% on my NAS:
In this post, Lori MacVittie seems to be stretching it in this post of her defense of F5 appliances as "elastic infrastructure". Certainly, it is true that the virtualization hype is off the charts right now and there is a rush to virtualize all aspects of the network infrastructure and that this is an unwise move (see here). But to state that "VIPRION essentially treats each blade like a virtual image" is simply untrue. What about the hassle of procuring another blade, obtaining CapEx signoff, shipment, delivery, etc. With a "virtual" appliance none of those concerns are there. I’m not saying that she is wrong about advising the use of hardware for stability, reliability, security, it is just that she is trying to put a square in a circle by stating that a hardware appliance is like a virtual appliance.
An exceptionally well done video that effectively and concisely explains "cloud computing", its origins, the value proposition, etc. Highly recommend to watch it a couple of times!!
Update:
Another good video about cloud computing.
I came across this story about Simon’s Rock on NPR. I went there from 1987-89 and if I were to believe what is being said in this story, the school has changed a lot. The school has probably changed and become more academic and less of a "social experiment". My guess is that changes in college entrances nationwide have also caused the composition of the student body to change, so perhaps it is more of an "early college" for "bored" high schoolers and less of a place for "misfits", which was more the case when I went there.
Oh, and now it costs $50,000 per year, which is $20,000 more than what it cost when I went there, which could also lead to a greater self-selection among the student body.
Tuition and Costs
2008-2009
Tuition and Fees: $37,860
Student Activity Fee: $150
Room and Board: $10,600
Health Services Fee: $640
First-Year Orientation Fee: $525
Total: $49,775
The man who killed Kiran has been indicted with "two counts of homicide by vehicle, four counts of serious injury by vehicle, one count of driving under the influence and one count of reckless driving." This is good news to read, but I guess there is still more to be done with the arraignment to see if he serves any time or not. Article from the ForsythNews.
This morning, I woke up at 5:30 and made it to the YMCA for a cardio class at 6:00 am. It was a pretty standard aerobics-based class with a little bit of weights and some stretches and lasted for 50 minutes. Needless to say, I was only running at about 20% capacity, because: 1) it was really early and my body isn’t used to it; 2) I didn’t want to over-exert myself on the first day; and 3) I am just out of shape. The class kicked my ass and I imagine once I do it a couple more times I should get more out of it for sure.
