Wall Street's Speed War - Forbes.com

Wall Street's Speed War - Forbes.com: "Three milliseconds is three one-thousandths of a second. Does that really matter? 'That's close to an eternity in automated trading,' says Ben Van Vliet, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. 'This is all about picking gold coins up off the floor--only the fastest person is going to get the coins.'"

NAS - The National Association of Scholars :: Articles and Archives Read These Instead: Better Books for Next Year’s Beaches Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne

NAS - The National Association of Scholars :: Articles and Archives Read These Instead: Better Books for Next Year’s Beaches Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne: "Nietzsche invites wild misreadings from those who lack the philosophical context."

MyWi 4.0 - Rock Your Phone

MyWi 4.0 - Rock Your Phone: "Create a WiFi HotSpot with a press of a finger! Wherever you are - you can connect your laptop or other mobile device to your iPhone easily. MyWi has been rebuilt from scratch to bring tethering support to iOS 4! Will work with all jailbroken iPhones (including 2G/3G/3GS/4) and iPad on 3.1.2 or later."

Google search index splits with MapReduce • The Register

Google search index splits with MapReduce • The Register: "With Caffeine, Google can update its index by making direct changes to the web map already stored in BigTable. This includes a kind of framework that sits atop BigTable, and Lipkovitz compares it to old-school database programming and the use of 'database triggers.'"

Earthquake Kit

summary:

1. spare glasses in holder attached to bedpost
2. flashlight, batteries, hand-crank radio/charger
3. spare keys.  also store spare keys at work
4. clothing, in pillowcase under bed. shoes holding socks, underwear, bandana; jeans (pockets stuffed with useful items), warm shirt, sweatshirt, hat, and sturdy leather gloves.  bottles of water, hanky, tissues, whistle, mints, cash, meds.
5. fire prevention kit: fire extinguisher, natural gas wrench (at valve).
6. emergency tool kit in drawstring bag: phone with jack, walkie talkies, batteries, radio, swiss army knife, pliers, hammer, extra flashlights.
7. 72-hour kit (www.Ready.gov).  ready-to-eat food, bottled water, first aid kit, toilet paper, pet food and other items, in locking plastic tub. store outside of house.

rehearse: put on shoes, grab flashlight, turn off gas find neighbors' utility locations

rescue kit: dust masks, goggles, knee pads, elbow pads, and hardhats with headlamps; tents and tarps; floodlights, generator, Coleman lanterns, and emergency stoves and heaters; bandages and soup; duct tape, plastic sheeting, and spare lumber for covering shattered windows; down coats and sleeping bags; crow bars and car jacks and plenty more fire extinguishers.

Your Own Hot Spot, and Cheap - Yahoo! Finance

Your Own Hot Spot, and Cheap - Yahoo! Finance: "The MiFi’s portability has always made it an exceptionally flexible and useful little gadget — and Virgin’s prepaid model, unlimited data plan and dirt-cheap pricing just multiply that flexibility. And if Virgin can make money with a plan like this, the mind boggles at just how overpriced the similar offerings from its rivals must really be."

bfrog / whizzer / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org

bfrog / whizzer / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org: "Python 2.x and 3.x asynchronous socket server and coroutine library based on pyev and the pythonfutures api descibed by PEP 3148"