Google and Duplo?

Google was actually created by a couple of graduate students at Stanford (if memory serves correct they dropped out before completing their Ph.D.s - for some silly reason like making oodles of money on their project). Just today, while investigating data storage systems, I happened to stumble on a Stanford webpage advertising the original Google data storage machine. It appears to involve a bunch of Duplo...

TV - what are you watching?

I'd been hearing quite a bit about the show House from some friends - and for a while it appeared as though I were the only one not watching it. Then, a few weeks back, someone mentioned to me that House was the show that in some sense replaced Frasier in their TV viewing. That was enough to at least get me to try watching one episode, and I think that I've gotten hooked. Does anyone happen to have the first few seasons of that show kicking around on DVD for me to borrow?

I used to enjoy watching Frasier as it seemed to have some more depth than other comedies (although, as time wore on, they seemed to run out of plotlines and the show got a bit seedy). That said, in the past week I watched a few episodes, and found one such episode rather amusing. Basically the episode involves Frasier getting grief from the audience of his show for complaining about the amount of rain in Seattle. Vancouver isn't exactly Seattle, but it's close enough and the comment fit accurately enough (just look at the weather forecast for Vancouver in the next few days).

Maybe I should "move" to Alberta

A journey to the promised land

I'm not talking about a certain Middle Eastern kingdom, I'm talking about a new server - one flowing not with milk and honey but rather with spare processor cycles. (The site was kind of slow recently and there was a little too much downtime so I got bumped to a new machine).

You should be encountering the site at a temporary URL, until changes to the domain name become visible to you.

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