Amazon goes global with new Kindle - well, I think I'll rather continue to be a user of an e-reader with cracked DRM and without remote deletion of books. In some cases, offline is better than online.
Archive 7. October 2009
Finding Similar Items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop Streaming - worth a look, sounds quite interesting.
I like Unicorn because it's Unix - good overview of a pre-forking web server in Ruby. Something like this based on the existing tools for Python would be nice. Maybe I should tackle my toolserver again and switch to multiprocessing and rebuild the whole communication stuff around processes.
Münsterland Giro
Münsterland Giro
Just because I still find the picture of racing cyclists on the Prinzipalmarkt quite strange. I really should be used to it by now, it's been happening for several years.
shedskin - hmm, I think I haven't seen that one yet. Compile Python code to C++. That could be interesting for one project or another.