The Tesla Testament
Amazon best-seller December 2007!

Non-stop action. A vulnerable hero. A quest to save the world. The Tesla Testament is the most exciting novel of the decade.

MapReduce Part II and the Dioscuri Project

Build a MapReduce system using the same off-the-shelf, robust, open-source components already running at your company and that your engineering team already mastered. Do you want to quickly implement large indexing jobs, protein folding software, or financial trend analysis? Build a MapReduce system with tools that already exist in your production clusters!

There are two articles about MapReduce out in the wild now, with a third one coming soon:

This MapReduce implementation is the foundation of the open-source Dioscuri Project.

The Sushi Eating HOWTO is in Maintenance Mode

After 7 years of development, 2 million unique visitors, and after becoming the most popular sushi etiquette guide in the world, The Sushi Eating HOWTO has stopped active development so that I can focus on other topics. Thanks to all for your visits to the page and your support, and to all my friends for joining me at the sushi bar for some fish, some sake, and some awesome memories. Cheers!