Scary bit is that astronomers noticed this one only 48 hours ago.
"A 30-50 meter-wide asteroid just passed seven times closer to us than the moon, glowing so bright you could see it through a cloud. If it had hit the ocean, it would have tsunamied."
Great introduction to database scaling strategies by Jurriaan Persyn from Netlog. This is a must read if you ever want to scale your MySQL/PHP service.
"If you’re interested in high performance, scalability, MySQL, php, caching, partitioning, Sphinx, federation or Netlog, read on …"
Comme quoi, il se passe aussi des trucs chouettes à Liège !
Perfect for a rainy sunday afternoon, a one hour conversation with Eric Schmidt. Discuss about Google today, but also the privacy vs transparency debate, future of education, the digital divide, emerging markets, and his view on the future. A really good interview of someone we (at least I) don't hear so often.
Full transcript also available at Techcrunch.
Could be the main revolution on the web in 2009...or a gigantic #FAIL. Based on the past events (the monumental hype on ANKOS and the letdown that followed), I'm ready to bet on option two.
"In a nutshell, Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a “computational knowledge engine” for the Web. OK, so what does that really mean? Basically it means that you can ask it factual questions and it computes answers for you."