Shortlog - a log of everyday things

2011-04-22

Some interesting links:

• The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, a speech from John Taylor Gatto on the woes of the public education system
• The Word "Hacker" by Paul Graham. For the record, I like nearly every one of Graham's essays.

Amazon's been having some rather significant downtime lately. I can't wait to read the post-mortem analysis, when it's all over. It does make one wonder how worthwhile throwing everything to the cloud really is. Even Microsoft doesn't have this totally figured out yet.