I just republished an article I'd worked on for Red Hat, called "Smart Grids." It's got twelve parts already, with two more not actually finalized; I'd been pulled off of the smart grids article and never quite got back around…
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CNN posted Stopping ISIS today, containing some horrifying imagery: basically, ISIS filmed a man being forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam, and then beheaded him. I suppose that somewhere the god of irony is weeping tears of stone. God knows…
The Avail team has announced the first release of Avail, an "articulate programming language," which attempts to offer a somewhat natural expression form for solving programming problems. While other languages, such as Perl, have tried to do some of the…
I am having some difficulty with CSS and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it. So I'm putting this out there in the hopes that someone with CSS expertise can look and say something simple, like, "Hey, dummy, why…
I hate to admit it, but one of my favorite songs right now is Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which I first heard on American Idol. What... a... song! The lyrics are freakin' STUNNING. Amazing piece of work. The relationship between sex…
Recently, I had a discussion with someone in which I took a position that is not representative of my actual thought on a matter, against a rather ... energetic opposing point. In it, Godwin's Law was in full evidence, along…
Wouldn't it be awesome if the contracts for college football coaches paid out at the graduation rate experienced by their players? It'd have to be tweaked, of course; it'd be unfair to punish an incoming coach for the poor graduation…
Inspired by the apparent congruence between the book World War Z and the film World War Z, I was struck by an imaginary conversation that led me to a very marketable idea. Here's the conversation: "Let's call it 'Tom Sawyer.'"…
Map/Reduce is a strategy by which one uses a divide-and-conquer approach to handling data. The division is normally provided along natural lines, and it can provide some really impressive performance gains. The way it does this is by limiting the…
Today I read an article from Guitar Player, from 1980, where Geddy Lee solved a question I've had for years, about what kind of bass was featured in a number of pictures. See the bass immediately to his right? It…