On a Personal Note
That's her on the right. The dufus in the tie is me. Happy 5th Anniversary to my wonderful wife. Best thing that ever happened to me, hands down.
TED Talk: America's Native Prisoners of War
This TED Talk by photographer Aaron Huey documents in photographs, history, and statistics the struggles of the Lakota and, more broadly, native peoples in general. The map showing what the US would look like if the Fort
MongoDB is Web Scale
If you have ever been assaulted by a buzzword-wielding NoSQL proponent, this video is for you. I don’t have anything against non-relational databases for specific use cases, mind you. It’s just a tad ton over-hyped. Fair
Testing and Reality
Interesting Stats From Developer Technographics Survey
After parsing through a couple of Information Week articles (here and here) covering select results from the Forrester-Dr. Dobb’s Developer Technographics Survey, some interesting stats stood out to me. The #1 moti
Some Halloween Fun
Boo! Here are a few links for some Halloween fun. Ghost Logs lets you report all of your supernatural happenings and displays the location of all the recorded events in Google Maps. Alas, Charlotte is so dull even t
Show - Great Geo Infographic
Via Downloadsquad, Show - A New Way To Look At The World is a fantastic map based data visualization tool. It has a wealth of data from top sources, and it represents the data by exploding the countries map and changing
Ode to My New Hardware
It’s amazing how much computing power you can bring to bear on the cheap these days. On my home workstation I tossed out an older AMD AM2 dual core and dropped in an Intel Core i5 750 (which also entailed dropping in a n
Find Any Unusual Black Boxes Under Your Car Lately?
A couple of articles posted on Slashdot recently (here and here) have me reaching for my tin-foil hat. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in their infinite wisdom, ruled that it’s legal for law enforcement to put GPS trac
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