He practices this shot. God like.

Congratulations to the Mint guys who have been bought by Intuit for $170million.

The crazy list of things web-developers need to know to run anything of size: API Metering, Backups & Snapshots, Counters, Cloud/Cluster Management Tools, Instrumentation/Monitoring (Ganglia, Nagios), Failover, Node addition/removal and hashing, Autoscaling for cloud resources, CSRF/XSS Protection, Data Retention/Archival, Deployment Tools, Multiple Devs, Staging, Prod, Data model upgrades, Rolling deployments, Multiple versions (selective beta), Bucket Testing, Rollbacks, CDN Management, Distributed File Storage, Distributed Log storage, analysis, Graphing, HTTP Caching, Input/Output Filtering, Memory Caching, Non-relational Key Stores, Rate Limiting, Relational Storage, Queues, Rate Limiting, Real-time messaging (XMPP), Search, Ranging, Geo, Sharding, Smart Caching, dirty-table management.

“24,877 stocks and 106,141 shareholding entities in 48 countries, revealing what they called the “backbone” of each country’s financial market. These backbones represented the owners of 80 percent of a country’s market capital, yet consisted of remarkably few shareholders.”

Great technical detail on how Backblaze put together 67 terabytes accessible over the net for so cheap. What I like most is their closing remarks though that one of their pods does not a reliable storage solution make. It requires multiple pods with extra software to manage failure.

Chris de Burgh’s reply to a “music” critic.

It takes blood, sweat and tears to do the news.

Digital devices are responsible for 2% of carbon emissions. The same amount as the aviation industry. A quarter of that is from the manufacture of the devices, the rest from the use of them. Consider whether you really need that new iPod Nano, laptop, printer or cell-phone. Maybe what you have will suffice for awhile longer.

Serendipity, Friend Finder and more from the Locle boys. Looking forward to the iPhone app.

Mazda MX-5 Superlight is gorgeous. A version with a windscreen would do well I think.