Mario's Jazz Bar- April 29, 2008 Just a random thing to share - there seems to be quite a lot of competition playing Super Mario Galaxy songs on YouTube. A fairly recent one is a Jazz Interpretation of the Observatory theme (there's also a guitar version or accordian one). I still quite like the original orchestral version of Gusty Garden Galaxy Theme and it's version on piano. Koji Kondo is also good to look up on YouTube from time to time too.http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/04/marios-jazz-bar.html Update from WWW2008- April 29, 2008 The HCLS workshop was very good. I especially enjoyed Mark Wilkinson's talk about BioMody 2.0 (very Larry Lessig-esque) and Chris Baker's. There's some definite interest from a number of people about my talk too.The keynote of the first day was from the Vice President of Engineering at Google, Kai-Fu Lee. In my talk I said that IBM had noted that scale-out architecture gives you a 4 times performance benefit for the same cost. He said that Google gets around 33 times or more from a...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/04/update-from-www2008.html Big Web Table- April 18, 2008 I thought I read someone ports Google's AppEngine to use HBase. Good idea but not quite. "Announcing A BigTable Web Service": "I then came up with the crazy idea to offer BigTable as a web service using App Engine. It would be an infinitely scalable database running in Google's datacenters. I spent my weekend learning Python and hacking together an implementation. Now I'm happy to present the BigTable Web Service. It models the API of Hbasea BigTable clone. Now you can have simulated BigTable.http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/04/big-web-table.html |