Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Golden Orgasmic Twins

 2006-05-08

Today's music is quite kind and homey. I would define it as neo-country, but allmusic.com put it more accurately - post-folk.
For those not so advanced in musical verbiage, I'll translate. A band with the amusing name Climax Golden Twins (Orgasmic Golden Twins?) plays acoustic music full of pensive melodies on guitar and banjo, off-key voices from ancient shellac records and soft crackling noises.
Somewhat reminiscent of The Books, the neofolk wave and even Coleen, but it sounds by no means harsh, sharp and defined, but rather blurry. In the spirit of Animal Collective, although different.
So as not to scare the folks - I declare ease of listening 3
https://rapidshare.de/files/19889544/Climax_Golden_Twins_-2004-_Highly_Bred_and_Sweetly_Tempered.rar.html

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Morocco

 2006-05-07
Dad came back from Morocco. He’s telling us all sorts of things.
And we’re sitting here drinking liqueur with a label in Spanish that says: "this cream liqueur can be consumed with elbow bones of ice, but also harmoniously accompanies desserts and especially ice cream".

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The Postman

 2006-05-06

I've been listening to "console" music from www.8bitpeoples.com for a few weeks now. Awesome stuff, really awesome. It brings back a slice of my eight-bit childhood (the game console known as "Dendy", properly called the NES). I love that all the releases are free and short — about 15-30 minutes.
I read David Brin's book "The Postman". A lot of people probably know the movie of the same name, but I haven't seen it. The book is good, especially for those who adore the post-apocalyptic theme. It might seem too simple and straightforward, but I figured out a long time ago that overcomplication, complexity, and pseudo-intellectualism are far from synonymous with coolness.
Overall, David Brin is a good sci-fi writer, I've read several of his books. They stand out for their excellent humor and meticulous crafting of the plot and characters. It's really weird, but I didn't even know he wrote "The Postman." I really should reread the "Uplift War" cycle.

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Akamai

 2006-05-05

While downloading the Creative Media Source media player from the official website, I happened to notice that it was being downloaded from a server in Latvia, which surprised me—why would Creative be based in Latvia?
The answer to this question is revealed below, without an abundance of daunting technical details.

Did you know that when you enter the address www.microsoft.com, you do not actually reach Microsoft’s servers in Redmond?  Requests for pages of enormous companies are difficult and expensive to handle simply by increasing the number of servers and the bandwidth of the internet connection they use.
Instead, the following solution is often used: a dedicated third-party company does nothing but create an enormous (thousands or tens of thousands)  geographically decentralized network of servers that handles requests for gigantic corporations.
The largest and best-known of these companies is Akamai. It was founded on the work of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is used by such giants as Microsoft and Creative, Audi and Fujitsu. Akamai claims to have more than 18,000 servers in 70 countries and to handle 10–20% of all global internet traffic. Of course, there are different ways to calculate this, and peer-to-peer networks are most likely not included, but it is impressive nonetheless.

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