This is an interesting article about Twitter's architecture: Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster
Excerpt: Some interesting changes from Twitter's Evan Weaver: everything in RAM now, database is a backup; peaks at 300 tweets/second;…
Thanks for your comments earlier regarding the Policy Portal. Might you and/or any of your colleagues be interested in helping "co-bootstrap" the development of a framework to help guide individuals and groups in decision-making with the Earth Charter as the foundation?
I no longer work for NASA, but rather for the US Air Force (still in satellite orbit work). However, NASA Maes Research Center has signed a collaborative venture with the state of Hawaii. There were talks about having a SpacePort on Kauai I believe.
Some people from Hawaii are born with a preference for cold weather. I suppose I took it to an extreme in choosing to live out here in Hokkaido, Japan. When I was in high school in Honolulu, I would often cut class and hang out in the frozen food section in Safeway.