Girder Drops From Colo. Bridge, Killing 3 (AP)
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Three Killed in Colo. Bridge Accident
(AP)
Three Killed in Colo. Bridge Accident
(AP)
05/15/2004 02:37 PMAP - A huge steel girder dropped from a freeway overpass construction
site into morning traffic on Saturday, crushing one car and killing
three people west of Denver.
Girder Plugins
Girder Plugins
03/13/2003 11:34 AMContacting developers
SyberWorks Selected by the American
Contract Bridge League to Develop Online
Bridge Education Content through the
SyberWorks Hosted e-Learning Solution
SyberWorks Selected by the American
Contract Bridge League to Develop Online
Bridge Education Content through the
SyberWorks Hosted e-Learning Solution
06/05/2005 10:52 PMSyberWorks, a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning
Management System industry, announced today it has been selected by
the American Contract Bridge League to develop online bridge education
content and host its online bridge training programs using the
SyberWorks Hosted e-Learning Solution. [PRWEB May 23, 2005]
Technorati colo move this weekend
Technorati colo move this weekend
12/19/2004 03:16 PM As we've announced on the main site, Technorati is moving servers
this weekend! We're moving from our old colo to a Tier 1 facility with
overprovisioned electricity, HVAC, good security, fire control, and
all the trimmings. You can watch...
Colo. Redistricting Map Challenge
Rejected
Colo. Redistricting Map Challenge
Rejected
01/23/2004 07:36 PMReuters via Wired News Jan 23 2004 11:40PM GMT
Man in Colo. Bulldozer Rampage Found
Dead (AP)
Man in Colo. Bulldozer Rampage Found
Dead (AP)
06/05/2004 10:50 PMAP - Crews using a crane Saturday removed the body of local man who
tore up a good part of this mountain resort town with an improvised
tank.
Colo. Cracks Down on Left-Lane Dawdling
(AP)
Colo. Cracks Down on Left-Lane Dawdling
(AP)
04/04/2005 10:17 AMAP - Colorado is serious about its no-dawdling law in left lanes.
Drivers who insist on staying in the passing lane are risking tickets
as the State Patrol has begun enforcing a law requiring motorists to
use the left lane for passing only.
Colo. Blizzard Strands Drivers,
Travelers (AP)
Colo. Blizzard Strands Drivers,
Travelers (AP)
04/10/2005 09:37 PMAP - Hundreds of travelers were stranded at the Denver airport and
along highways Sunday as a blizzard blew across eastern Colorado with
wet, heavy snow.
Bryant returns to Colo. court for
hearing
Bryant returns to Colo. court for
hearing
04/26/2004 01:13 PMColo. Prosecutors Still Plan Bryant
Trial (AP)
Colo. Prosecutors Still Plan Bryant
Trial (AP)
07/26/2004 02:21 PMAP - Prosecutors said Monday they still plan to take NBA star Kobe
Bryant to trial on a sexual assault charge, despite a judge's decision
that could make it harder to win a conviction.
Bryant Returns to Colo. Court for
Hearing (AP)
Bryant Returns to Colo. Court for
Hearing (AP)
04/26/2004 10:28 AMAP - With his team in the middle of the NBA playoffs, Kobe Bryant
returned to a Colorado courtroom Monday for a three-day hearing that
could pave the way for a trial date in his sexual assault case.
Technorati is back up, colo move
complete!
Technorati is back up, colo move
complete!
12/22/2004 01:12 AM I'm totally pleased to announce that the Technorati colo move is now
complete! We got the job done in 33 hours, which means that we got the
entire move done in under 2/3 the time we thought it would...
Inmates Riot, Set Fires at Colo. Prison
(AP)
Inmates Riot, Set Fires at Colo. Prison
(AP)
07/21/2004 09:38 AMAP - Inmates rioted and set fires at a privately run prison,
destroying one living unit and extensively damaging four others,
officials said Wednesday. Several inmates were injured.
Traffic Hits Colo. House Twice in 32
Days (AP)
Traffic Hits Colo. House Twice in 32
Days (AP)
01/16/2004 10:56 AMAP - In just over a month, Sarah Stern's life of solitude was
shattered twice — when separate vehicles slammed into her corner
house.
Information Bridge Framework Document:
Introducing the Microsoft Office
Information Bridge Framework
Information Bridge Framework Document:
Introducing the Microsoft Office
Information Bridge Framework
05/19/2004 11:41 PMLearn about the Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework from an
organizational perspective, including the rationale for exposing
line-of-business data to desktop systems and the benefits to the
information workers who rely on this data to perform their daily work.
In addition, review the Information Bridge architecture and the
advantages that this architecture offers for both deployment and
maintenance of solutions.
Colo. GOP's Statement on Kerry Draws
Fire (AP)
Colo. GOP's Statement on Kerry Draws
Fire (AP)
04/24/2004 05:11 PMAP - Democrats are furious about a statement by Republicans saying
that comparing one of their candidates to presidential candidate John
Kerry would be worse than comparing someone to the Ku Klux Klan.
Colo. schools give high score to 4-day
weeks (USATODAY.com)
Colo. schools give high score to 4-day
weeks (USATODAY.com)
06/14/2004 06:55 AMUSATODAY.com - Aimee Kroneberger's three daughters didn't go to school
on Fridays this year. And they don't have to make them up in summer
school.
Colo. initiative could make 2004 a
repeat of 2000 (USATODAY.com)
Colo. initiative could make 2004 a
repeat of 2000 (USATODAY.com)
09/27/2004 07:25 AMUSATODAY.com - If you enjoyed the 2000 election spectacle in Florida,
stay tuned to Colorado in 2004. A razor-thin national margin for
either President Bush or Sen. John Kerry on Nov. 2 could spark another
court showdown because of a statewide initiative here that would
rewrite the rules for apportioning Colorado's nine electoral votes.
Putting out colo fires (literally!), aka
“A weekend of downtime”,
grrr.
Putting out colo fires (literally!), aka
“A weekend of downtime”,
grrr.
09/26/2004 05:04 PM
Ugh. What a horrible weekend. I and the team have been spending the
entire weekend dealing with massive data corruption caused - of all
things - by an electrical fire on the main electrical line coming into
our colo here in San Francisco.
The colo fire has led to a cascade of failures that has caused the
Technorati service to be down for most of the weekend. It's also
giving me a lot more respect for people who build and maintain 100%
uptime of services, the trials and tribulations they go through, and
also the cost of being operationally excellent.
What Happened
At about 9:30PM PST Friday, there was an electrical fire on the power
main inside our colocation center, where our entire server
infrastructure is housed. This caused our battery backup power
supplies to kick in, but the independent power generator at the colo
never kicked in - possibly because the problem was a fire inside the
building rather than a general power blackout of the neighborhood.
Well, the fire was only problem #1. We weren't expecting or planning
for an outage of that kind. It caused a cascade of other problems
that made the rest of the weekend a huge PITA. Problem #2 was that we
didn't have a good enough emergency plan in place that would shut our
systems down cleanly when power ran out like that. Unfortunately,
that meant that when the batteries died, our server farm went down
quite ungracefully - causing problem #3, which was data corruption due
to the unclean shutdown.
The rest of the weekend has been spent recovering from these failures
- we've had to do consistency checks and then rebuilds of the data
sets that got corrupted, and we're doing that for over a hundred
machines. Bad bad bad. At least we've been performing regular daily
backups, and we're able to use that as starting points on our road to
recovery. The current ETA to get services back up and running is by
Monday morning, which will mean a weekend of unplanned downtime.
What we're doing about it
Clearly, this is unacceptable, but the damage is already done, so the
big question on my mind is how to learn from this outage and make sure
that it never happens again. One of the important
things learned is that there's a reason why some colocation centers
are called “Tier 1” (and priced that way) and others are
not. Tier 1 means that everything is overprovisioned, and there's
plenty of infrastructure backup already built into the place -
electrical, network, fire suppression, environmental, security, etc.
We have been planning a move to a new colocation center, but this most
recent incident just underscores the need to move asap. Second, it
illustrates a hole we had in our emergency plan - we had built our
emergency plan based on a threat level of a short outage followed by a
quick electrical recovery. We had planned for a shutdown of critical
systems if battery power fell below a certain threshold (upsd for you
techies out there), but we hadn't gotten it implemented given that we
were planning the move to the new colo. That of course, led to the
data corruption that is keeping the team up all weekend.
Once we get past this crisis and get the service back up and running
again, I guarantee that we'll be doing a post-mortem analysis to see
where the failure points were, and how we can avoid them in the
future. I have learned a lot from this experience about the value
(and implicit cost) of planning and building systems around unreliable
components, and doing everything you can to eliminate risk - and also
about planning for quick recovery when the unthinkable happens. I
have a lot of respect for the folks at Google, Yahoo, eBay, and the
like for their ability to build and maintain a solid world-class
infrastructure, have it scale, and also innovate with new applications
as well.
Planning for Murphy's Law
Count me as one of the humbled. To our users and customers:
Ouch this hurts, and we're working on making sure that outages like
this never happen again. To the folks down in ops and engineering at
companies around the globe keeping these systems running and useful,
no matter what Murphy throws at you, you've got my appreciation.
I'll post as we have more updates on service status as the day
progresses.
VSS Bridge 1.3
VSS Bridge 1.3
09/15/2004 03:47 PMCommandline access to MS Visual Source Safe.
SLI Bridge Available in Retail
SLI Bridge Available in Retail
03/17/2005 03:44 AMThis week some Japanese hardware stores started offering the SLI
bridge card, which is shipped together with Gigabyte’s or Leadtek’s
graphics cards as well as with all the SLI supporting mainboards based
on nForce4 SLI available in the today’s market. Why could anyone be
willing to buy a separate SLI bridge card at all?
If you have been reading our News attentively, you probably know that
some nForce4 Ultra based mainboards are equipped with either two
full-size PCI Express x16 slots or with one full-size PCI Express x16
slot and one PCI Express x4 slot , which allows installing a second
graphics card. None of the mainboard makers however is brave enough to
announce officially that their solutions really support SLI. As you
know, NVIDIA is doing its best to prevent the “unauthorized”
modification of the nForce4 Ultra based mainboards into nForce4 SLI
based ones.
View:
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News source:
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Information Bridge
12/07/2003 06:29 PMDepartment of Energy Information Bridgehttp://www.osti.gov/bridge/The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text
and bibliographic records of
Department of Energy (DOE) research
and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology,
environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and
information science, renewable energy, and other topics. The
Information Bridge consists of full-text documents produced and made
available by the Department of Energy National Laboratories and
grantees from 1995 forward. Additional legacy documents are also
included as they become available in electronic format. DOE's
Office of Scientific and Technical
Information (OSTI) makes this Web site available to the public in
partnership with the
Government
Printing Office (GPO), through
GPO Access.
3D Bridge Deluxe 2.3
3D Bridge Deluxe 2.3
02/19/2004 12:00 AMBridge card game with Internet play, interactive on-screen opponents,
voice control.
Delkin USB Bridge - USB without PC
Delkin USB Bridge - USB without PC
05/13/2004 04:56 AMI4U May 13 2004 9:05AM GMT
PhpJava Bridge
PhpJava Bridge
09/11/2004 01:02 PMGNU Java now supported by the PHP/Java Bridge
Tcl bridge to Qt GUI library
Tcl bridge to Qt GUI library
01/28/2004 07:12 AMSource code for Qtcl has been published in CVS
A Bridge to eBay
A Bridge to eBay
06/17/2004 11:35 AMUPS teams up with AuctionDrop to help people sell stuff on eBay.
Convergence Bridge
Convergence Bridge
04/01/2005 08:53 AM
 (posted from Montreal)
As many of you
know, I have recently become enamoured of complexity theory, and this
has caused me to re-think many of the ideas presented here on How to Save the World. I am
blogging today from Montreal, where I have been attending the First
Annual Global Colloquium
on Complexity and Chaos. The event has catalyzed or emerged some new
conceptions about the nature of communications, and specifically
blogging, and I have decided, starting tomorrow, to incorporate these
thoughts into this online journal. So get ready for some big changes
here. Beginning tomorrow:
- The red, blue, and green system charts and process
charts
you have become accustomed to on this blog will be discontinued. In
their place you will see graphics such as the one above. The lack of
borders on these charts indicates the omnipresence of intellectual
miasma, and the lack of connections on these charts represents
universal uncertainty. All that we can presume to know is that ideas
and conceptions have the apparent quality of co-existence and that
understanding of their relationship will, with time and contemplative
study, gradually emerge.
- No arrows will appear in any graphics from now on.
Such
presumptions of causality are, at best, oversimplifications and, at
worst, dangerous misinformation.
- The words question, answer, problem and solution will
be
scrubbed from posts on this blog. In our world, as a complex system,
these concepts are meaningless. There are no answers or solutions,
just
learnings about ideation, being and nothingness, consciousness and
unconsciousness.
- You will no longer read the words 'how' or
'why' on this blog. In the absence of causality on the edge of chaos
such terms are
pretentious. Effective tomorrow the name of this weblog will be Convergence Bridge.
- The categories feature of this weblog will be
discontinued.
Since everything is related and the true relationship between the
conceptions discussed uncertain, it no longer 'makes sense' to have
artificial categories. And instead of arguing, as I have in past, in
favour of personal taxonomies and ontologies, I will argue, in the
first article tomorrow, that there are no taxonomies or ontologies,
and
that such arbitrary categorizations are fraudulent.
- I will also eschew the use of the question mark in
all
posts, since questions imply the existence with reasonable certainty
of
answers. Instead, I will begin using the 'degree' symbol (º), the
circle representing the endless pursuit of perfect understanding at
points in my discourse where a 'pause' for considered thought is
called
for. Likewise, periods, with their naive implication of order and
finality, will be replaced by commas, the perfect symbol of
tentativeness and uncertainty,
- And finally, the absurd words 'know', 'knowledge' and
'information' will no longer appear in my posts. Again, a symbol, the
colon, with its gentle suggestion of possible relationship, will be
used in place of such anachronisms,º
It is my sincere belief that these changes will allow a higher level
of
intellectual discourse on these pages: I look forward to our continued
journey together:º |
Tallest bridge
Tallest bridge
01/05/2005 06:31 AMDavid Pescovitz:
This is a photo from orbit of the brand new 1.5
mile Millau viaduct in southern France. It's the world's tallest road
bridge, standing 900 feet at its highest point above the Tarn River.
LinkBridge of sighs
Bridge of sighs
08/18/2004 08:37 AM
Now that's a bridge. Highest bridge in the world from Jan
2005.
Slightly
scary as well.
(euro post week)
When a Bridge Becomes a Lifeline
When a Bridge Becomes a Lifeline
08/19/2004 06:11 AMFifteen years after an earthquake damaged San Francisco's Bay Bridge,
engineers are attempting to replace it with a stronger span. The
project is said to be the most ambitious in state history. Part 1 of
2. By Amit Asaravala.
3D Bridge Deluxe 2.0.1
3D Bridge Deluxe 2.0.1
11/05/2003 04:46 PMBridge card game with Internet play, interactive on-screen opponents,
voice control.
"North Bridge Inn, Exeter"
"North Bridge Inn, Exeter"
12/29/2004 11:34 AMjSyncManager 1.1 beta 01 (CDK-J Bridge)
jSyncManager 1.1 beta 01 (CDK-J Bridge)
07/23/2004 04:44 AMA Java Palm handheld synchronization toolkit.
JCom (Java-COM Bridge)
JCom (Java-COM Bridge)
06/21/2004 06:49 PMJcom (Java-to-Com bridge) release 2.2.4 is available !
UN talks aim to bridge trade gap
UN talks aim to bridge trade gap
06/13/2004 04:24 AMOfficials from around the world start talks in Brazil aimed at easing
divisions between rich and developing nations.
A Bridge Suspended in Controversy
A Bridge Suspended in Controversy
08/20/2004 06:47 AMWhen an earthquake knocked down a section of the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge, engineers vowed to make a stronger span. But years later,
that plan is still mired in controversy. Part 2 of 2. By Amit
Asaravala.
PSX to USB Bridge for Playstation
Consoles
PSX to USB Bridge for Playstation
Consoles
08/17/2004 10:55 PMCompgeeks.com - Tue Aug 17, 08:44 am GMT
Bouygues looks to EDGE to bridge gap to
3G
Bouygues looks to EDGE to bridge gap to
3G
11/12/2003 01:23 PMTelecoms.com Nov 12 2003 2:23AM ET
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