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Glucose powered wetware?
Many episodes of Futures in Biotech have discussed the energy produced by cells. This slashdot story not only makes me think that we’re another step closer to personal cybernation but it might also have a sci-fi like role in medical monitoring equipment? In a way #diabetic #coppertop ? All do respect of course. It would…
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Bike Day Trike Race! #bham
Bring your wee trike and a wig! http://www.everybodybike.com/eventDetail.aspx?id=19
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Protected: Fedora 13: Politely Biting Your Lip?
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Database Joins, Reddit, NoSQL
There’s been a lot of online discussion about NoSQL this year. Thomas Gideon produced a podcast episode about using NoSQL vs joins. This morning I was pointed to this Highscalability post about Reddit. Quoting: There are no joins in the database and you must manually enforce consistency. No joins means it’s really easy to distribute…
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2010-05-17 Web apps should be fast
Have I worked on any applications that have all 10 of these concepts? It’s an interesting read. It mostly speaks towards building software that has charisma. I don’t think I’ve ever really worked on a product that has charisma. I’ve certainly helped speed sites up, and helped make them more useful. Many products I’ve worked…
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Vendor Relationship Management, VRM…want ads?
After listening to episode 42 of TWiG with Doc Searls, I was thinking about the topic of VRM. I should read more about, because I it sounds quite interesting. Here’s the VRM project blog. However, what I’m wondering is–how is initiating a relationship with a vendor any different than placing a classified “want ad” (craigslist…
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Landslide Video: You’re not in Santa Barabra anymore
This is a fascinating view of how sediments act as a viscous liquid. I’ve seen TV coverage of landslides from the California coast and those little events are brief and occur at seaside, on clifs. I’ve never viewed a video of a major liquefaction(?) if that’s what this is. It doesn’t appear to stop, does…
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Letterboxing
Yesterday we went over to a neighbors house and learned about Lletterboxing–the ancestor of geocaching. Letterboxing started at the beginning of the twentieth century. One places a letterbox, consisting of a stamp, a stampbook, and a hiding place for another to find via a puzzle, riddle clue. Participants carry a stamp pad and thier own…
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