Milwaukee Road Boxcar Used as a Covered Bridge
While dodging raindrops during a late season round of golf, I stumbled upon a couple of old
Milwaukee Road railroad boxcars that had been repurposed into covered bridges. In the past I have seen rail cars used as diners or retail stores, now I have seen them made into covered bridges! You can see full size images of the photos by clicking on the thumbnails below.
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Milwaukee Road Boxcar
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Milwaukee Road Boxcar
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Milwaukee Road Boxcar
Google has posted a semi-technical explanation of the 1 September 2009 Gmail outage on the Gmail blog. To sum it up, Google took some of the Gmail servers down for maintenance. Other servers that were supposed to handle the load became overloaded and shifted the load to other servers that couldn’t handle the load and so on. The snowball grew until there were no more servers to handle the load and most people could not get to their email.
This outage illustrates a very important point about cloud computing: the cloud is not infinite. We may be under the impression as consumers of cloud computing services that the “cloud” stretches as far as the Internet goes. In reality there are a finite number of servers that with improper configuration can still all go down. This outage shows that a cloud computing service is vulnerable to the same kinds of outages that a single server or cluster of servers is vulnerable to.
Are you looking for a great watch and calculator battery cross reference on the web? The best one I have found so far is Maxell’s Micro Battery and Cross Reference Guide. I used it today to find a replacement for a LR1130 calculator battery. Neither the Energizer nor Duracell site could find a replacement, yet it is commonly sold in stores as an Energizer 189 or Duracell D189A.
The BBC celebrates 25 years of PowerPoint slide decks with a PowerPoint slide deck. The article also has some good tips for how to make better presentations and avoid bullet burnout.
PowerPoint currently has 95 % of the presentation software market, according to the article. I’ve been using PowerPoint for years now, but in the past used Aldus Persuasion on the Macintosh and Lighthouse Design’s Concurrence. on the NeXT. In a pinch I’ve even used Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker for slides, too.
