I have a lot of small bits of information to share today. I guess I'll do it in bits and pieces (i.e. in separate blog postings). Here's the second tech-related one of the day.
CIO Magazine recently published an article on the Seven Wonders of the IT World and it makes and interesting read. A couple of the wonders are more "what a cool place for a computer to be" type wonders: the computer closest to the north pole and the computer farthest from the Earth. Three have to do with raw processing power: one of Google's data centers, the largest grid computing project, and the world's fastest supercomputer. One has to do with smallness: the smallest computer to run Windows Vista. And one has to do with computing: the paradigm change brought about the Linux kernel. They're all truly wonders (or, at least, CIO's definition of what makes a "wonder") and, like I said earlier, the article is good to read.
Have you noticed, though, that more and more we like readings things that have are neatly listed, categorized, and ranked -- basically, things that we can digest quickly and easily...like, er, chicken nuggets. Oh well.
CIO Magazine recently published an article on the Seven Wonders of the IT World and it makes and interesting read. A couple of the wonders are more "what a cool place for a computer to be" type wonders: the computer closest to the north pole and the computer farthest from the Earth. Three have to do with raw processing power: one of Google's data centers, the largest grid computing project, and the world's fastest supercomputer. One has to do with smallness: the smallest computer to run Windows Vista. And one has to do with computing: the paradigm change brought about the Linux kernel. They're all truly wonders (or, at least, CIO's definition of what makes a "wonder") and, like I said earlier, the article is good to read.
Have you noticed, though, that more and more we like readings things that have are neatly listed, categorized, and ranked -- basically, things that we can digest quickly and easily...like, er, chicken nuggets. Oh well.