Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Computer stuff
It’s been a year since I dumped Windows from my desktop at work. Not so long ago i also dumped Windows from my computer at home. With the exception of my laptop and a Windows VM living Windows free has been pretty easy. Don’t really see myself wanting or needing to going back to a Windows box on the desk. There have been a few issues with hardware finicky-ness, but for the most part I haven’t had any problems getting everything done that I need to do.
Go Linux!
The monthly and category archives seem to have broken on me, probably because of me messing with the archive template mappings. Excuse the breakage while I try to figure out what I broke this time. Entry archives still work.
Update: Ok, the category archives seem to have magically unborked themselves. Oddly, only the April and May monthly archives are broken. This is very strange.
Updated to MT 4.2rc1 and already there are a few templates that need modification so excuse any breakage you might encounter (drop me a line if you do find some breakage).
Still digesting all the new things (never really did get around to digesting all the template tag changes between 3.3x and 4.1) and I still need to get around to mucking around with my templates so things build a little faster. From the looks of things, there are a lot of new things. MT’s templating system is has almost become a full-blown programming language in itself!
Some Twitter-derived apps that I’ve run across (thanks to tweets from others) for the stats-obsessed
A research group estimates that the amount of digital data created and stored will reach nearly 2 zettabytes by 2011. That’s 2×1021 bytes.
That’s a lot of crap to store.
Well, not all of it is crap, but I’m sure a good chunk of it is crap.
From the article:
By 2011, there will be 1,800 exabytes of electronic data in existence, or 1.8 zettabytes (an exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes). In fact, the number of bits stored already exceeds the estimated number of stars in the universe, IDC stated. And because data is growing by a factor of 10 every five years, by 2023 the number of stored bits will surpass Avogadro’s number, which is the number of carbon atoms in 12 grams, or 602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.022 x 10^23).
Less than half of the digital data being created by individuals can be accounted for by user activities, such as photos, phone calls and e-mails. The majority of the data is made up by what IDC calls digital “shadows” &emdash; including surveillance photos, Web search histories, financial transaction journals and mailing lists.
At roughly 14 terabytes/year (and growing), I know that our department is making it’s contribution to the ‘storage economy’.
Methinks we’ll need some new prefixes soon for whatever comes after 1024.