DIY Burglar Alarm : Damian Beresford’s experience installing his own home alarm. pretty cheap, sounds quite easy too
(tags: alarm home-alarms house security diy install)Post-mortem for February 24th, 2010 outage – Google App Engine : extremely detailed; power outage in the primary DC resulted in a degraded fleet, and on-calls didn’t have up-to-date on-call docs to respond correctly
(tags: google gae appengine outages post-mortems multi-dc reliability distcomp fleets on-call)Wrex in Effect, or, Deep Space and the Negro/Injun/Krogan Problem : fantastic article about Mass Effect’s political allegory. I’m slightly disappointed that Mass Effect 2 didn’t live up to ME1’s quality, IMO
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