ktheory.comis all about meMake me a sandwich- August 29, 2006 xkcd is my new favorite web comic. Though Achewood is a close second. (If you don&8217;t get the joke above, it&8217;s because you&8217;re not a computer nerd, which is nothing to be embarassed about.)http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/29/make-me-a-sandwich/ What a Fields Medal means to a sysadmin- August 23, 2006 arXiv under load due to Perelman&8217;s Fields Medal Tuesday morning Grigory &8220;Grisha&8221; Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his work on (proof of) the Poincar Conjecture, one of the million dollar Millenium Prize Problems. NY Times, CNN, the BBC and other web sites point out that he published his work solely on the Internet; but ...http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/23/what-a-fields-medal-means-to-a-sysadmin/ Overheard- August 19, 2006 Father: &8220;Do you like your hot coco&8221; Little kid: &8220;Yeah.&8221; Father: &8220;What does it taste like&8221; Little kid: &8220;Not like toothepaste.&8221;http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/19/overheard-3/ ROFL: the Web 3.0 application stack- August 18, 2006 Tired: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHPPerl) Wired: ROFL (Ruby on Rails On FastCGI on Lighttpd); rhymes with whaffle. Now we need to invent more platforms for the &8220;Roflcopter&8221; stack.http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/18/rofl-the-web-30-application-stack/ YouTube: make favorites easier- August 13, 2006 Everyone loves YouTube, including me. But adding a video to my favorites is too hard. It takes three clicks! And two of those clicks are clicking &8216;ok&8217;. It&8217;s not such an important operation that it requires double confirmation: it&8217;s not the end of the world if I accidentally add a video to my favorites list. Please, ...http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/13/youtube-make-favorites-easier/ |