2008-05-25

Shift Happens - We are living exponential times

I stumbled upon an educator's (seemingly) point of view on how we should think about now and near future in the midst of exponential changes in technologies and societies.



Mathemagical Entertainment

The presentation titled "Secrets of Mental Math" held at ETech 2007 is now available on IT Conversations here. Very entertaining. It's not only for technically/scientifically minded but also for others.

2008-05-16

System administration in the cloud computing era

An long interview to Adam Jacob and Jesse Robbins on the Technometria podcast is quite interesting for me as an ex-infrastructure builder/administrator turned into web application developer/architect.

They are using the following tools to manage applications running on Amazon SC2 and other cloud computing environments.