What's That Noise?! [Ian Kallen's Weblog]

All | LAMP | Music | Java | Ruby | The Agilist | Musings | Commute | Ball
Main | Next month (Jul 2004) »

20040608 Tuesday June 08, 2004

Lots of traffic and cops, but no protesters There was a big hubbub downtown this morning. The SFPD was out in force directing traffic every which way -- was there an absence of protesters because the cops were so darn effective or did they totally over do it?

They were diverting traffic and congregating on the freeways (which looked surreal... the cops appearing pretty bored, "Here I am, guarding this stooopid freeway ramp..."), lots of pissed off drivers but I didn't see a single protester.

Maybe the cops were the protesters.

( Jun 08 2004, 09:21:39 PM PDT ) Permalink


Setting up Movable Type Earlier today, someone was asking me "How hard is it to setup Movable Type?" I don't know, I haven't set one up but I bet it's not hard.

Indeed, builder.com has confirmed my hunch, setting up Movable Type with a vanilla configuration looks pretty ding dang easy.

( Jun 08 2004, 09:09:14 PM PDT ) Permalink


The Index Macarena is Done It's been previously reported, Google has in the past has had an episodic updating cycle. Apparently, they've retooled for small incremental cycles.

The Google Dance has had it's last hurrah. The Google search machine is now updated piecemeal. ( Jun 08 2004, 10:17:19 AM PDT ) Permalink


20040606 Sunday June 06, 2004

Google's Transparency The beautiful thing about the google model is that when you read through the docs published about how they do things and couple that with their S-1 filings, it makes their IT infrastructure so transparent.

"How many google machines" makes a plausible estimate of the range. More of the technical nitty gritty of google is published but whether it's enough to really infer an accurate picture isn't clear. But I bet the avid google-watchers are pretty close. ( Jun 06 2004, 09:00:32 PM PDT ) Permalink


20040605 Saturday June 05, 2004

Managing Terabytes How does google do it? Indexing <sagan>billions and billions</sagan> of documents everyday isn't easy.

Apparently, one component of the Secret Sauce is the Google File System. Some have even gone on to extrapolate some projections of how they do what they do from the SEC filings. The challenges of managing gigabytes terabytes are impressive, indeed. ( Jun 05 2004, 11:58:01 PM PDT ) Permalink


20040603 Thursday June 03, 2004

Umlaut emerges in the blogspace After a long publishing hiatus ('cept for the periodic email dispatches with tidbits o' fun), Umlaut is broadcasting again!

Back in those days that I cared a lot about metal, Herr Umlaut and myself were making a lot of it happen. These days, I'm not really in the loop anymore (damn, I don't even know who the hell these people are) but it's still plenty fun to hear the echoing reverberations of all that crap that's irrevocably changed pop-culture.


Welcome to the blogosphere, Umlaut!

( Jun 03 2004, 01:29:49 AM PDT ) Permalink