Startups, image recognition, photography, curiosity, #maker, running and travel.
The running numbers for Sunday June 11 – Saturday June 17 are in: – Clare: 21 km– Estelle: 0 km– Imran: ?km– Leila: 0 km– Melina: ? 10 km– Mr. T: 50km– Paul: 28 km– Sutha: 0 km I have been quite delinquent in recording our running numbers since my knee injury. Things slowed down … Continue reading Running June 11 – 17, 2006
My good friend Warren sent me this today: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. … Continue reading Back running
Dan Farber is as always doing a fantastic job of covering Supernova, drop by Between the Lines to follow what’s happening here. The line that summarized Jonathan Schwartz Sun’s CEO: "The era of custom hardware is on its way out" was bang on! From one of his blog post in May 2006: "To repeat, we … Continue reading Supernova 2006
I am at Supernova for the next couple of days. I will be participating tomorrow in the search panel moderated by Chris Shipley of Guidewire Grop. The panel description is below. Search will be – no, it already is – the ultimate interface.From Search to Eternity[Moderator: Chris Shipley (Guidewire Group), Kapenda Thomas (CEO, Jookster), David … Continue reading Search at Supernova
A Conversation With Eric Mattson At MarketingMongerWell, this happened before I had to race to the airport on my way to Supernova in California. I had heard about Eric a while back because of his project do complete a 1000 podcasts and make these podcasts available to all. When I initially heard about the project … Continue reading A conversation with Eric Mattson
Randy wants to put together 4camp. Basically in his own words: Unlike BarCamp, 4camp would be held at a real campground (w/ Wifi, of course) in the Toronto area. Unlike BarCamp, it’s not about discussing and presenting existing ideas, but rather inventing new ideas. 4camp would be for entrepreneurs and startup junkies, who aren’t currently … Continue reading 4camp
Krugle – the search engine for developers is out. Krugle is a search engine "for code and technical content."Check it out folks. Krugle could be very useful for hackathons! I know perhaps not the usage that the Krugle team was thinking about but that’s what comes to mind for me: I am planning on organizing … Continue reading Krugle
I missed Don Dodge‘s post about googleplex as well: Google data centers vs Microsoft infrastructure – a battle of the titans. Continue reading Googleplex (again)
I am on RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) and crying. I went for a run this morning with Paul and Mr. T. They ran. I crawled. I cursed every runner that passed by in total despair. My knee hurts damned it and it just hurts. This time it is no fun. I kept thinking … Continue reading I am on RICE
Mathew Ingram links to one of the latest articles about Google server farms. Being in image searching as it is and managing a growing cluster these articles are always a great read. At Idee we had to upgrade our entire building’s air conditioning and electrical supply and dedicate an entire floor to our cluster. It … Continue reading Googleplex