Que Risa (que me meo)

Primavera

Me gustaría hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos

Pablo Neruda

Cuento sobre los libros

Microsoft y las fotos

Presentación de una aplicación para el manejo de tu galeria de fotos y para extraer conocimiento de lugares a través de las fotos de otros, por ejemplo de las fotos de flirck. El ejemplo de Notre Dame me ha parecido genial y sigue uno de los lemas en los que baso mi trabajo como informático "Si puede imaginarse puede hacerse"

El efecto Slashdot :-) :-)

(copio y pego de microsiervos)

Dice Cory de Boing Boing que siempre soñó con escribir este titular, Slashdot slashdots Slashdot: allí se cuenta cómo el popular sitio de noticias para geeks se «tumbó» a sí mismo el otro día y estuvo más de una hora caído debido a un extraño problema técnico y un exceso de tráfico web que se estaba reenviando a sí mismo. Fue algo así como que el famoso efecto Slashdot pudo con el propio Slashdot. Deliciosa y autorreferentemente irónico.

(y ahora corto y pego de Boing Boing)

A technical failure in a data-center switch caused Slashdot to flood itself with bogus traffic, shutting down the service for 75 minutes. Honestly, the only reason I'm posting this is so I can include that ^^^ headline. It's the headline I was born to write, srsly.

As a precautionary measure I rebooted each core just to make sure it wasn't anything silly. After the cores came back online they instantly went back to 100% fabric CPU usage and started shedding connections again. So slowly I started going through all the switch ports on the cores, trying to isolate where the traffic was originating. The problem was all the cabinet switches were showing 10 Gbit/sec of traffic, making it very hard to isolate. Through the process of elimination I was finally able to isolate the problem down to a pair of switches... After shutting the downlink ports to those switches off, the network recovered and everything came back. I fully believe the switches in that cabinet are still sitting there attempting to send 20Gbit/sec of traffic out trying to do something — I just don't know what yet.

Este error de uno de los sitios mas populares de internet me hace recuperar un poco de mi autoestima (algun error cometido en algún trabajo, y no digo más). Bueno, que hay una forma más efectiva de cargarse internet que tecleando Google dentro de Google y es conectando un switch a otro switch.

American pie

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, theyd be happy for a while.

But february made me shiver
With every paper Id deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldnt take one more step.

I cant remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.

So bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
Singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Did you write the book of love,
And do you have faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Do you believe in rock n roll,
Can music save your mortal soul,
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?

Well, I know that youre in love with him
`cause I saw you dancin in the gym.
You both kicked off your shoes.
Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.

I was a lonely teenage broncin buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died.

I started singin,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Now for ten years weve been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin stone,
But thats not how it used to be.
When the jester sang for the king and queen,
In a coat he borrowed from james dean
And a voice that came from you and me,

Oh, and while the king was looking down,
The jester stole his thorny crown.
The courtroom was adjourned;
No verdict was returned.
And while lennon read a book of marx,
The quartet practiced in the park,
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died.

We were singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?

We started singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

Oh, and there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again.
So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!
Jack flash sat on a candlestick
Cause fire is the devils only friend.

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell
Could break that satans spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died

He was singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where Id heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldnt play.

And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.

And they were singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
Singin, thisll be the day that I die.
Thisll be the day that I die.

They were singing,
Bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
Singin, thisll be the day that I die.

Los ERRORES suelen ser el puente que media entre la inexperiencia y la sabiduría.

Phyllis Theroux, en Night Ligths

ROMA

Había oido hablar de un proyecto similar en mis primeros tiempos en la internet pero le habia perdido la pista.

La idea había estado latente durante mucho tiempo y sólo había visto algunas pequeñas muestras en documentales y algunos pequeños ejemplos en webs de universidades americanas, pero nada tan ambicioso como lo que se plantea Google.

De todas las areas en las que hemos dividido nuestro conocimiento quizás sea la humanistica las más desapegada a las nuevas tecnologías, no hay ninguna razón para que sea así, pero.... ¿hemos tenido que esperar a que Google lo demuestre?



[diré bajito que....es fantástico que google sea su patrocinador (por lo del plan secreto para dominar el mundo)]

Impresionado por los Americanos

Creia que esto sólo pasaba en las películas.

Yo ya sabía que ganaría

Empecé a sospechar que el recién electo presidente de los Estados Unidos ganaría las elecciones cuando me enteré de la historia de los "Obama babies" , estos son videos colgados en youtube en los que padres graban a sus hijos pequeños haciendo campaña por el candidato, en ocasiones demostrando que su nombre es una de las primeras palabras que han aprendido. Resulta interesante saber que no existen "McCain babies" o al menos no con la profusión de sus homólogos demócratas. Tenía que ganar, una iniciativa espontanea tan bonita no podía caer en saco roto...

como muestra un botón



pero vayan a youtube y miren más, a ver que les parece.