http://www.coverfire.com Thoughts and musings Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:23:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This probably isn't news to many people by now but CBC's Search Engine will not be returning in the fall. What a loss. To me Search Engine is a great example of what a radio show and Podcast can be. The show had strong audience participation and felt almost more ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/07/07/search-engine-on-cbc/ About a month ago Karen and I spent the weekend in Chicago. If you haven't been to Chicago I would recommend it. We had a great time. One of the highlights and quite possibly the coolest museum exhibit I've seen was U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry. This was ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/06/29/chicago-u-505/ For the first time in almost month I had a bit of free time for experimentation today so I decided it was time I set up my home network to use IPv6. I've tried to keep up on the development and deployment of IPv6 but besides setting up a few ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/06/29/ipv6/ Where Google App Engine Spanks Amazon’s Web Services: S3, EC2, Simple DB, SQS A short summary of the differences between Google's App Engine and Amazon AWS. Pricing for App Engine has also been announced. http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/06/14/a-short-comparison-of-app-engine-and-aws/ Hunting memory leaks in Python Interesting post showing how to use the Python garbage collector's introspection features and Graphviz to track down object reference problems. http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/06/11/python-memory-leak-debugging/ Gin, Television, and Social Surplus People new to open source software, blogging and other participatory Internet activities often wonder where others find the time. In short, it comes from not wasting a lot of time on things such as TV. The two-way nature of the Internet has made it possible for ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/05/03/gin-and-the-cognitive-surplus/ Environment Canada is nice enough to publish radar data for their many weather radars across the country. The Exeter WSO radar covers the area in which I live. A friend of mine has created a great Google maps mashup which makes use of the data provided by Environment Canada in combination ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/04/19/environment-canadagoogle-maps-mashup/ There has been lots of discussion and buzz around the Amazon Web Services (AWS) lately. I posted a few links about this last week. Most of the articles that I have read on AWS speak of it from a high level. General discussions about how the service allows your web ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/03/26/amazon-ec2-from-a-network-administration-perspective/ I finally got around to watching A new way to look at networking yesterday. This is a talk given by Van Jacobson at Google in 2006 (yes, it has been on my todo list for a long time).This is definitely worth watching if you are interested in networking. A couple of ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/03/25/a-new-way-to-look-at-networking/ It's pretty hard to not notice the buzz around 'cloud computing'. In large part this is due to the new services being offered by Amazon. Who would have thought that a book seller could become the infrastructure for a new generation of Internet start-ups? Here's a bit of information to whet ... http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/03/16/could-computing/