Facebook making money via Google

Does anyone else see a Google Custom Search box beneath the applications list?

Facebook could be raking in some serious money from that.

Surprise surprise

So it turns out that some people have been using the looming spectre of the 2010 Soccer World Cup to help talk up their projects.

Infraco - I'm talking about you!

It's not that surprising, really. What is interesting is the talk of SAT-3 (amusingly and unintentionally further abbreviated as at-3) being upgraded to 320 Gbps. This will at least help Telkom with some extra bandwidth - 120 Gbps was pretty paltry at introduction and now looks downright anemic. Does Telkom dominate the SAT-3 consortium so much that it can just force the upgrade?

Isn't it procrastic?

The irony escaped me yesterday; I guess procrastination when it comes to blog posts isn't good...

Procrastination is good

[thanks HPCwire]

Says [Chief IBM Roadrunner engineer Don] Grice: "A job that would take you about a week to run on Roadrunner would have taken you 20 years to run on a machine just 10 years ago."

Gro'in' pains

Enough 80's references, let's skip to the meat of this post (so to speak). This is from a recent traceroute; DataHop might want to rename one of their nodes to accomodate some expansion in their traffic:

11 196.32.209.25 (196.32.209.25) 165.620 ms 160.809 ms
12 ge2-20-0-cr0.tch.uk.as6908.net (78.41.155.161) 236.578 ms 198.183 ms
13 te-4-2.r00.londen05.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (83.231.146.69) 151.840 ms 153.098 ms