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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, right, presents a replica of a sword once used by South American independence hero Simon Bolivar to Venezuela’s fencer Ruben Limardo during a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. Chavez presented the country’s highest honor, the Order of the Liberator, and the replica to Limardo after he won a gold medal at the London Olympics.
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Magnetic North | Drift Away
I know it’s just lyrics and beats
But lyrics to me are like infinite peace
And peace
Is what hip hop had brought me
Strumming my pain like it was “Killing Me Softly”
Killing me, but what a way to die
Overdosed on flows, comatose on rhymes
And I wanna drift away
Staying conscious enough just to hit replay
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Only In My Dreams - Ariel Pink
Ariel Pink’s new record is the artist of the weekend on fredwilson.fm
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NoSQL Case Study: Riak for the Danish Healthcase System
InfoQ just published Kresten Krab Thorup presentation at GOTO conference, Riak on Drugs (and the Other Way Around), covering details about the Danish healthcare system built on top of Riak for high availability, scalability and to run off multiple data centers. Now we have both sides of the case study of building a nationwide healthcase system using Riak and Gigaspaces XAP. Original title and link: NoSQL Case Study: Riak for the Danish Healthcase System (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
myNoSQL: A NoSQL Use Case: URL Shorteners
Last week, I have mentioned a post by Gleicon Moraes on ☞ building an URL shortener using MongoDB and alternatively Redis. There is also a ☞ GitHub project by Sean Cribbs implementing the same scenario using Riak and Ruby-based Sinatra. Update: Jan Lehnardt was quick to point me…
