Will the Greens pay YOUR €25,000 Blasphemy fine? : good point from Jason O’Mahoney. ‘let’s pass this law anyway, but instead of a €25,000 fine, make it a €25 fine. The constitution is satisfied, and the fine is so nominal as to be useless, which is what the Greens say is the effective outcome of the law anyway.’ +1
(tags: greens ireland politics blasphemy law constitution absurd omgwtf)Information regarding 2 July 2009 outage – Google App Engine : extremely detailed postmortem of the recent GFS outage — a poorly-written MapReduce client issued repeated “query of death” messages, causing server-side stack overflows
(tags: postmortem gfs appengine mapreduce google gae downtime operations communication failure bugs)Count Me Out : ‘Count Me Out is a campaign seeking to lessen the influence of the Catholic church in Ireland. Our primary focus is to reduce the number of “members” of the church by encouraging people to formally defect.”
(tags: countmeout religion ireland catholicism ryan-report politics schools)