This is a big powerpoint file. On the other, and more important, hand it contains some fascinating ruminations about what some key trends in performance improvement in storage technology and network speeds portend for us as knowledge workers and inhabitants of a digital world. Jim Gray is one of the supersmart folks at Microsoft Research who is thinking a few years out about the world we will all be inhabiting soon. Worth the time to look at and think about.

Jim Gray: The Personal Petabyte, The Exnterprise Exabyte (PowerPoint). [Hack the Planet]

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I agree, I've just unsubscribed from the Register feed as well. Besides finding little worth reading there, I find a headline only feed to be pretty useless anyway

Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs | The Register. Dave Winer popularized Netscape's RDF syndication format, which has since splintered into nine incompatible formats.

This is just troll bait.

I'm unsubscribing to the register. The news there has gone tabloid.  Obliviously they're after traffic for ads. Wankers.
[Steve Hooker: cyberSaps business]

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I've downloaded the mp3s, but they haven't made it to my iPod quite yet. Maybe tomorrow.

Listen to the sound of the Universe on your iPod.

The New York Times had a great story about Dr. Mark Whittle, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia who has taken the cosmic background radiation of the universe and made a series of sounds.

”For the first 400,000 years,” Dr. Whittle said, “it sounds like a descending scream falling into a dull roar.”

So of course the first thing we did was google him, find the site and turn the .WAV files in to MP3s for our iPods!

Right click / option click this link to download a zip file of the 13 “sounds” we also combined them all in to one MP3 which is in the zip as well.

If you’d like to read more about Dr. Mark Whittle’s work visit his site, there are a lot of presentations and information regarding Big Bang Acoustics.

[Engadget]

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