It sounds to me like it’s time for some sort of wiki-based health insurance comparison service. As someone who has recently been insured in Australia and the US though, I should point out the Australian system is way less confusing than the US one.
Australian teachers advocate a China style firewall for Australian internet users
SMH article and the actual site It’s logical really: Some Australian teachers are perceived as sucking by their students The students rate them on line, thus exercising free speech The teachers can’t face a life of people knowing that other people think they suck Teacher’s federation proposes some crazy firewall scheme Hurrah! Censorship is always…
What do you do when the users who generate your content revolt?
Digg’s answer was to attempt to censor the users — they ultimately failed.
Dublin!
I’m in Ireland at the moment for work — I’ve been here a couple of days now (which might explain why I am online at 4am local time, I am having some trouble sleeping). Anyways, it’s nice here. I wasn’t really expecting to like it after how much I disliked London the last time I…
Domain name lookup helper for python?
Hi. I have a list of the domain portion of URLs which looks a bit like this: Whois lookup for fycnds.digitalpoimt.com Whois lookup for wvgpzdea.digitalpoimt.com Whois lookup for zhnsht.digitalpoimt.com Whois lookup for frigo25.php5.cz Whois lookup for handrovina.php5.cz Whois lookup for blabota.php5.cz Whois lookup for pctuzing.php5.cz Whois lookup for viagraviagra.php5.cz Whois lookup for poiu.php5.cz Whois lookup…
I imagine this is pretty much the worst case they design for
A major freeway interchange in Oakland (that’s a large dormitory town north of Silicon Valley) just had a oil tanker roll under it and catch fire. The road way basically melted. I imagine this will take months if not years to fix.
Managing MySQL the Slack Way: How Google Deploys New MySQL Servers
Thanks to everyone who came along to Grant and my talk this morning about slack and how we bootstrap MySQL servers. Here is the slide deck as promised.
MySQL Users Conference
Well, they’re definitely thinking about getting started. Like last year I caught the VTA down — it’s hard to beat a $1.75 trip without having to worry about traffic. Registraton wasn’t as smooth this year as last, for example I didn’t get my free book (there didn’t seem to be any attempt to hand those…
Nerd link of the day
If you’re an ACM member, or read ACM transactions on computer systems, or have a corporate membership to the ACM portal, then you really should checkout Inferring Internet denial-of-service activity. It’s a surprisingly simple method of determining how common denial of service attacks really are on the Internet. Like all good ideas, it’s also really…
Air America drug smuggling
Just saw a documentary about the Air America drug smuggling operation. It’s really interesting — modified light planes, flying into storms to avoid detection, basically not being as dumb as your average smuggler. There is a New York Times article online about the gang.