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Quantum Teleportation [Aug. 20th, 2008|04:00 am]
xkcd

http://xkcd.com/465/

Science should be exactly as cool as the headlines sound. Like the 'RUSSIANS CUT APART AND REASSEMBLE DOGS' thing.
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giggle on passenger [Jul. 4th, 2008|12:48 am]
jaq_junction

http://www.ethelred.org/articles/2008/07/03/giggle-on-passenger/

I switched Giggle over to run on Passenger, and after some five minutes of testing I think it’s probably working ok. I had to disable page caching, but it uses fragment caching so there is still a potential reduction in database activity1. It seems stable, which is the main advantage compared to the old FastCGI solution.

Maybe with a stable platform I might get around to working on new features instead of having to try and make the thing not crash all the time.

1 It’s an interesting feature of the Dreamhost platform that going out to the filesystem, which is actually over NFS I believe, is still better performing than calling the database. Or so it has seemed from what I’ve worked on.

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RBA [Aug. 18th, 2008|04:00 am]
xkcd

http://xkcd.com/464/

This is a story all about how I started drinking.
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Voting Machines [Aug. 15th, 2008|04:00 am]
xkcd

http://xkcd.com/463/

And that's *another* crypto conference I've been kicked out of. C'mon, it's a great analogy!
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Freemanic Paracusia [Aug. 13th, 2008|04:00 am]
xkcd

http://xkcd.com/462/

It's amazing what it does for YouTube comments.
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Google Maps [Aug. 11th, 2008|04:00 am]
xkcd

http://xkcd.com/461/

Apparently Google assumes you're traveling during the ferry's normal operating hours. We lost two hours circling that damn lake (to say nothing of the Straw Man).
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Less than thirty minutes [Aug. 9th, 2008|09:52 am]

07refugees
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It took less than half an hour for LJ to privatize my request about "Increased limits for Basic accounts." (I'm not surprised; they've ignored the request I made four months ago on the topic.)

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=907482 & auth =xwjk (Remove spaces to see request; IJ's coding removes auth bits otherwise). Full text:
At the announcement of the 100-day plan at http://community.livejournal.com/lj_2008/1794.html, one of the features promised was "Increase certain limits for Basic and Plus accounts." The new post in lj_2008 mentions increased userpics for Plus, but nothing about Basic accounts.

Which limits have been or will be increased for Basic accounts?
Any bets on ever getting an answer to that one? Or will it wait a few days until they release info about the new ad-supported Basic accounts, and claim that there are "increased limits" somewhere in there? (We know a lot of you have been awaiting our decision on Basic Accounts, so watch this space for an announcement August 14, 2008. Any changes to Basic Accounts will also affect how we deal with Basic Communities, so you can also expect an update on that.)
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Paleontology [Aug. 8th, 2008|04:00 am]
xkcd

http://xkcd.com/460/

Dinosaurs totally jumped the ichthyosaur when they got rid of Brontosaurus.
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