Whirlycott / Philip Jacob

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Spotted on the T

Filed under: General — Philip Jacob @ 2:48 pm

I was walking through the electronic turnstile onto the T the other day and noticed a partially obscured Microsoft Visual C++ runtime error dialog box on the screen!


Friday, August 22, 2008

Amazon EBS

Filed under: General — Philip Jacob @ 3:56 pm

I think this is the fifth blog post that I’ve written today.  Seriously.  Just a quick pointer to an article on Xconomy that I wrote this morning about Amazon’s new Elastic Block service.


Some thoughts on memcached

Filed under: General — Philip Jacob @ 3:50 pm

I put some thoughts and scrappy data about memcached over on the StyleFeeder tech blog.


Friday, August 1, 2008

Helios Voting System

Filed under: Politics, Technology — Philip Jacob @ 3:02 pm

Ben launched this new Helios Voting System earlier today.  I heard him talk about it once and will be very interested to dig in to the code to see under the hood.