Serves me right for being a hardware guy. Clicked through eagerly expecting something like my vector clock implementation, http://web.jfet.org/vclk/

Me, I'm pining for the KDE 3.x clock screensaver - that one hit my weakness for train-station-style clocks spot on. Not available under Gnome, Mac or Windows, I believe.

Also a clock involving vectors: http://sandbox.mikepurvis.com/js/clock/

I expected the same thing and was disappointed that there was no CRT involved.

Excellent article.

I wish that the Basho Riak product pages had at least half as much high-level technical information about their data model without having to dig deep into their site. All I find on their product pages is marketing speak ("scale predictably", "fast and easy", "fault tolerance", "map/reduce"). I finally found some info on the data model though: http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/An+Introduction+to+Riak#A... http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/How+Things+Work

i complained about this to the basho guys (sean) at erlang-factory and they said that they were in the process of making it more useful...

Think I saw the erlier 'easy' round, but clicked through to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock (kept updated with these posts, I noticed).

Two thoughts: first, what about an application/example to DVCS problems ? Such as "Dave saw both Ben's and Cathy's derivations of Alice's drawing, but prefers Ben's with a small modification ..."

Second, when is the xkcd comic coming out ?