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I didn't get this posted yesterday because the Internet crapped out in our area. Nothing but excuses, I know. I've been working beyond the bleeding edge, using a version of the Nutch code that's not even made it into the Apache SVN for the project yet. To celebrate the fact...

As some of you know already one day, real soon, we're going to get around to relaunching goroam. We're still doing most of the same consulting work we've been doing for a while but we want to focus the site and face of the company more on what we actually...

We've submitted our 4IP application for sproozi, we finally decided that no matter how many hours, days or weeks we though about it and changed it, it was just changing- not getting better. So we sat down today and spent some time with it and sent it in. Was it...

One thing that occurred to me while I've been writing Sproozi is how tied to a mapping implementation I am and it's something I've been thinking of starting a project to abstract the details away so that I could swap implementations whenever I liked. A couple of things I wanted...

The great thing about the cloud is the extremely low barrier to entry. It's very cheap to get up and running, it's very cheap to scale and it's very cheap to store data. I'm still not fully convinced that from a long term perspective with thousands of nodes it's going...