How many times have I been at the airport waiting for a delayed plane? I’ve lost count. Dozens of times, and I’m not all that frequent a flier. Sometimes I’ve waited almost an entire day. How many times have the airlines told me the flight is delayed before I left my house? Exactly once in over thirty years of flying, and that was almost twenty years ago. Something needs to be done.
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Sleepycat asks some interesting questions about a non-standard persistence API they are developing. By the way, non-standard is good. Ideas like this should be tried out in open source products first before baking them into standards. I applaud Sleepycat for taking this route instead of rushing into the JCP. Indeed standardizing in advance of implementation experience explains a lot of the problems in JEE that APIs like this one are designed to replace. Anyway, on to the questions:
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Last night Beth and I went to see Salvage, the final piece of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy about pre-Marxist Russian socialist and anarchist revolutionaries. Let’s put it this way: when the part of the evening out you’re most looking forward to is the book you’re going to read on the subway, something is wrong.
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Despite the cold weather I made a quick spin around the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and Prospect Park Lake for the Great Backyard Bird Count. My best birds were a Northern Pintail that’s been hanging out in the lake and one male Bufflehead, both the first reported in new York State for this count. The wind off the lake was bitterly cold so I didn’t stay out long, but I did tally 22 species and close to a thousand individual birds (mostly gulls and geese):
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Loop Rumors reports that “Unlike today’s Mac Pros, the cooling system will direct hot air through vents at the top of the machine, much like Apple’s Cube of yesteryear.”
I expect and hope that Loop Rumors is wrong. The problem with vents on top is that I (and many other users) put things there.
Putting the exhaust vents on top blocks useful space. By contrast the space on the back of the machine where the vents are now is relatively free.
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