From my other blog:

NoSQL databases are a perfect disruptive technology in Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma model
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I’m predicting that the relational database is going to die.

Read more.

Here.

I still think it is <<insert strong adjective here>> that none of the major content companies other than Google have in any way supported Google’s stand here. At the very least, they could publicly say that they admire Google’s point of view. It costs them nothing, and does have an impact as we can see from some of the rather angry official Chinese utterances on Google’s stance lately.

Wasted two hours today attempting to HTTP POST some content with a client certificate using curl on OSX Snow Leopard. It somehow would not show its cert to the Apache server.

In an act of desparation, I tried the exact same command with the exact same client certificate on Linux, and it worked.

So I downloaded MacPorts, built curl from there on OSX, and it works. No idea what happened, Google is of no help. I’m mostly posting this that others with my problem can find it.

They thought: why not simply requiring everybody to store logs, just in case a crime happens and the authorities would have a much easier time if they could access the logs when they needed them.

The German constitutional court disagreed and requires that all such logs be deleted as soon as possible.

Link to story (in German).