I have to say, I love the new FedEx laser-printable self-stick shipping labels. They make creating a shipment so much simpler.

I have finally written my first successful Hadoop 2.0 map reduce job.

Light dawns over marble head: my Hadoop jobs haven’t been working because I didn’t properly grok Java package and class naming. Now I do.

A very cool blast from the past: Scala implements futures and promises, advanced parallel programming constructs I used in the late 1980s.

Best part of our week so far: RC arrived home from UVM for Christmas!

Jury decides $1 billion iPod lawsuit in Apple’s favor. Only took two weeks of court time too. cultofmac.com/306320/apple-j…”

Two months in, iPhone demand still outpacing supply flip.it/XLDg7

In case anyone was under the illusion that all that CIA lying about the torture program is past now…. scribd.com/doc/249963726/…