Archive for September, 2003

Jax Think Tank

Posted by Mike on September 19th, 2003

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

Interview with Jim Grey

Posted by Mike on September 17th, 2003

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 [...]

We are all individuals…

Posted by Mike on September 16th, 2003

Installed movable type. Now I’m like everyone else.

Very interesting:

Posted by Mike on September 14th, 2003

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 [...]