[I]n the coming weeks it might seem piquant that so soon after unveiling it’s “big society” the British government is discussing whether to blast it with water cannons or fire rubber bullets at it.
— Zoe Williams in the Guardian Weekly 19.08.11
Thomas Sutton
Daily notes and photos.
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2011-08-21
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2011-08-20
Corpse of the old Perth entertainment centre, half eaten by the excavators.
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I love Perth winters.
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2011-07-21
Installing OS X Lion on my MacBook Air last night. After using it for a little I’ve decided to go back to Snow Leopard for the time being. The conflation on simplicity with “feature count” and the overdone physical metaphors (carried over from iOS) detract from the new features that I found genuinely interesting. I think I’ll give it a point release and then try again.
P.S: While I may not love Lion, I appreciate Time Machine much more than I used to!
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2011-06-03
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2011-05-27
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2011-05-04
Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us « Joyeur
An interesting perspective in the aftermath of the Amazon EBS outage that it’s philosophical root cause is a problem of abstractions: that developers demanded and Amazon promised to provide an untenable abstraction. Perfectly reliable and available networked disk storage is just a fantasy we need to move beyond and its lack is something applications will just have to handle. I think I agree.
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2011-05-03
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2011-05-02
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2011-05-01
