Tahoe Blog

• Product Review
  Here are some examples of using anthro carts as hi-fi racks

• Stefan Didak’s Home Office
  Using this as the gold standard for the ultimate geek home office.
• Newegg.com - LG W2452T-TF Black 24” 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor 400 cd/m2 10000:1 DCR with HDCP support - LCD Monitors
  Looking at this monitor for a inexpensive 24”. Realized it won’t work with ergotron monitor arms, so it is out. Blah.

Links for 2007-08-10 [del.icio.us]

• Room & Board - Chelsea in Angora
  Have all but decided to buy this sectional, but can’t pull the trigger.
• facebook data store api thoughts - snarfed.org
  This looks interesting.

Links for 2007-08-09 [del.icio.us]

• mohair wool beige sofa
  mohair wool for $375?
• vintage Knoll side table / coffee table chrome & walnut (?)
• MOOTS YBB SUPERLIGHT TITANIUM MOUNTAIN BIKE SIZE 17
  dream bike
• One thing PC users can do that Mac users can’t…
  “”If I want to manufacture biological weapons with my copy of iTunes, I will, fascists. “”
• Mega hands-on: Virgin America’s Airbus A320 with Red in-flight entertainment - Engadget
  SOunds like Virgin is going to put a whopping to everyone.

Links for 2007-08-08 [del.icio.us]

• IKEA red lounge/recliner chair
• Noguchi Table / Jacobsen Dining Chairs / Laccio Tables / DWR Theatre
• **SOFA from ROOM&BOARD
• White Eames Elliptical Table from Room & Board
• George Nelson Bubble Ball Lamp - HUGE
  Nelson lamp
• Funky, Cool, Retro Hairdryer Lamp

Links for 2007-07-27 [del.icio.us]

• uncov, uncovering web2
  Still don’t get the strategy of developing a web2.0 company while bashing everyone at the same time.

Twitter Malfunctions

I think Twitter is neat. The concept of aggregating brief messages from multiple sources is simple but fun, useful, and technically interesting (well to me anyway). But I have had a couple strange malfunctions in the past couple days. The most disconcerting was that SMS notifications were turned on in the middle of the night unleashing a small torrent of messages on my phone, walking me up.

In a stroke of good luck it turned out to be a good thing because I needed to get up and check the status of some long running processes anyway. But it took me awhile to figure out how to disable the thing (the setting on the home page wasn’t working), and was on the verge of killing off my account. Anyways, I’m disconnecting for a while to go home to Jamestown then onto NYC. I’ll plug back into the Matrix in a couple weeks.

(via christopher baus.net)

Links for 2007-07-19 [del.icio.us]

• Tenerife Skunkworks Amazon S3: Now with locking, transactions and no delay between writing and reading
  This sounds most excellent. Erlang + mnesia + s3.
• Tenerife Skunkworks Amazon S3: Now with locking, transactions and no delay between writing and reading
  This sounds like it is going in the direction I was thinking with my twitter/s3 posts. Very interesting.

Erlang hacking

If you’ve been following my tweets, you know that after about 6 months of trying to figure out a new side project, I’ve decided to teach myself Erlang.

In short, it will have you digging deep into your CS education to remember languages like Prolog and ML. And after using languages like Python, the syntax is well, ugly. And it certainly doesn’t read like prose, which many developers love about Rails.

But I think there is some genius in there, and the time is right for rethinking concurrency. I spent a lot of time working on a non-blocking proxy server, and IMHO that model of development isn’t going to scale to huge projects, especially in languages like C which have embedded blocking I/O into the brains of developers since day 1.

Prediction: In 10 years all languages will borrow concepts from Erlang. But they may look more like Scala.

Links for 2007-07-17 [del.icio.us]

• Bubble in the desert
  Pretty amazing blog about hiking the Sierra Crest trail. This is the west coast version of the Appalachian trail.