Archive for March 14th, 2007

My ill-informed tournament picks »

By William M. Hartnett on Mar 14, 2007 in sports | 0 Comments

As an obvious UF homer, I’ve been picking Florida to win the men’s basketball tournamet for many years now, including several in which they were not, strictly speaking, among the participating teams.
My previously secret method for determining the rest of my tournament picks is to maintain a strict ignorance of all matters related to college [...]

No, you can’t use Access »

By William M. Hartnett on Mar 14, 2007 in geekery | 0 Comments

Judging by the number of diggs and the fact that it’s a month old, you may have seen this already: Top 10 Largest Databases in the World. Doesn’t look like a particularly authoritative list, as the comments suggest, but still pretty cool. Six petabytes of data ain’t messing around.
Incidentally, I stumbled across the list via [...]