Controls again at the German-Danish border - great achievement for a founding member of the EU just to satisfy right-wing populist idiots to destroy the Schengen area..
Archive 11. May 2011
"In the current terms of service, Twitpic reserves the right to reuse the images that users publish via the service." - and even commercially, and TwitPic has already secured the partner with WENN. via Twitter-Bilder: Verwirrung um Twitpic - Golem.de. This is therefore another service that is better not to use, as of course the creator of the images does not receive any money for the use.
RaptorDB sounds quite interesting, a classic Key/Value-Store for .NET that is based on MurMurHash and is especially designed for performance and storage stability. Could be quite useful for one purpose or another, especially since it also works cleanly with threading.
App Engine Go Overview. Honestly, I would find it more exciting if Google would move away from outdated Python 2.5. But well, instead of Python 2.7 or a JVM language, you can now program the AppEngine with Go. At the same time, however, prices and conditions have changed, so it would probably be better to first check whether it is worth it at all. Because you can also use Go just as well on your own root server ...