My compatriots in Jacksonville and I are starting a blog for ourselves at Jax Think Tank; check it out. We’re going to register jaxthinktank.org at some point, but for now, its within my site.
BTW, I’m the one they call Buddha
From slashdot, this is a very interesting article with Jim Grey: Winner of the ACM Turing award; pioneer of relational and transaction-based systems; Tandem; and now research into the future of storage (log structured file systems, etc.).
A Conversation with Jim Gray
To me, the most interesting things in this interview are:
His belief that Open Source [...]
Installed movable type. Now I’m like everyone else.
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn [...]