One of the AOL guys couldn’t make it to Dublin, so Dave Berlind asked me to fill in. I took a different angle with this talk, and did it without any speaking. It was risky, but I think the reaction was great. This was probably the funnest ‘talk’ I think I’ve done.
I do want to add that the 128 bit part was shamelessly lifted from this awesome article about GUIDs.
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Chris Radcliff // November 12, 2007 at 2:05 pm
That’s awesome. It was just like being there*.
Which I wasn’t.
As you know.
*Except for the Guinness. I bet that was better than this slide show could possibly convey. Sigh.
kalid // November 12, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Hi John, this is Kalid from betterexplained — glad you liked the article!
The slides are really cool by the way — I’m a huge fan of the “Steve Jobs” presentation style of single words on a slide.
I’m currently using Amazon S3 for data storage but xdrive looks interesting
John // November 13, 2007 at 12:38 am
You were missed my friend. The Guinness was amazing, served much colder than I would have thought.
John Herren // November 13, 2007 at 12:41 am
@Kalid: _all_ of your articles are great, and I always like seeing you up at the top of Reddit. The 128 bit example really raised some eyebrows.
Kalid // November 13, 2007 at 2:39 am
Thanks John, I’m glad you like them (blogging is getting to be a lot of fun).
Yeah, once numbers reach a certain size they start hurting your head. When writing the article I tried to think of the most egregious use of GUIDs that I could (timestamping individual copies of the internet for everybody) and there was *still* enough to go for “a while” :).
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