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Subject:	Estimation
Time:	04:00 am

http://xkcd.com/612/

They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

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xkcd_rss

Subject:	Disaster Voyeurism
Time:	04:00 am

http://xkcd.com/611/

Hurricane forums are full of excited comments about central pressure and wind speed and comparisons to Camille and 1931 and 1938, with hastily-tacked-on notes about how it will be tragic if anyone dies and they hope it's a dud.

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skington_mt

Subject:	A comic that you must read forthwith
Time:	11:38 pm

http://illuminated.co.uk/blog/2009/07/a-comic-that-you-must-read-forthwith.html

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: They Fight Crime!

Via Making Light, which has sequential links to the major comics, Babbage and Lovelace. It’s not your usual webcomic - for one thing, the artist wrote it primarily as a way of avoiding other work, so updates will by necessity be haphazard - but the idea is fantastic, the art is great, and the author comments have that wonderful “yeah, I know I’m taking liberties with historical fact, but the crazy thing is I’m not taking as many liberties as you might think, OMG!” vibe that suggests it’s only going to get better.

Also, it features Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Awesomeness

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lj_maintenance

Tags:	memcache
Current Music:	NOFX - San Francisco Fat
Current Location:	falling down the stairs
Subject:	MemcacheD Update
Time:	02:17 pm
Current Mood:	busy

Just wanted to let everyone know, that a new version of MemcacheD has been released. We will be rolling this out to the memcache nodes during the week of July 20th to 24th. This should have very little impact on the stability of the website; however users may see a slight increase in load times as the cache is re-populated with entries.

The software has been tested and verified to be working just fine with the application; so we perceive this to be a very minimal risk in regards to updating, and the stability of the website.

Thanks...

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