This is starting to feel like some really boring old blues: “Woke up this morning/fished disgusting stuff out of my nose”.
Sweden is a dark, wet place this time of the year – everyone either has a cold or is about to get one from someone else.
My girlfriend is at her place, nursing her cold – but she called and told me to look at her latest painting. I just did – and I think you should, too!
On Slashdot, there was a rumor today that John Carmack was going to rewrite the Linux TCP/IP-stack. A long way down in this thread, Carmack himself wrote in to deny this. The signal-to-noise was as bad as usual – but I found a very fascinating little paper about latency and interactivity.
Just like the States, Sweden has had a year of relentless broadband-hype. But if your latency sucks bandwith quickly becomes irrelevant. And it’s good to realize that even with infinite bandwidth we will never play Quake in real-time across the Atlantic – the speed of light is a limiting factor.
I still like clicking on weblog banner ads!