Gizmodo reviews the new Wacom Cintiq 12WX LCD tablet, and it looks slick.

A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data PDF (local cache) describes Google’s gargantuan distributed storage system. One of the most amazing aspects of the system’s develompent was the scale that they tested it at:

The tablet servers were configured to use 1 GB of memory and to write to a GFS cell consisting of 1786 machines with two 400 GB IDE hard drives each.

I regularly hear developers complain about how difficult it is to set up realistic tests. I think those developers are just lazy, unskilled, or working for the wrong company.