Fox News just visualized unemployment increases with a green arrow pointing up.

Why hyphens are important: "Stop Cancer Causing Hepatitis" ping.fm/dnUn6

It's ironic that Tigris.org, a site dedicated to building and improving collaborative development tools, doesn't support any DVCS.

A fun paper on asynchronous system design: ping.fm/IeodC

Saying a DB was influenced by the CAP theorem is like saying a car design was influenced by physics: ping.fm/RORqf #sigh #Riak

To preempt arguments for #Redis sharding: client-side sharding is possible on anything and doesn't allow asynch replication to remote DCs.

The problem with #Redis is that you change your whole app to use it yet end up with the same bottleneck: write performance on the master.

Given 30 min builds for Pressflow on #HipHopPHP, we'll make Hudson dynamically manage EC2 instances for distributed compilation via distcc.

Features (at least temporarily) dropped from the #HipHopPHP Pressflow branch: install profiles, multisite, PostgreSQL support

Some pages load, but with builds taking 30 minutes and needing to properly configure distcc, I'm calling it a night. Pressflow on