Had an idea for an intellegent news agent that would use RSS to get headlines every hour or so, and read the contents of each news item. Each item would be parsed out into a interpreter similar to Mind.Forth that would build up a knowledge base that could be queried with english questions. Also, this program would actually be able to come up with ideas of it's own based on it's own musings.
Ghetto Cloud Foundry Home Lab
Over the past few months, I've been cobbling together my own Lab to be able to gain experience with Cloud Foundry. Sure, I could have gone the much simpler route of bosh-lite , but I wanted to get a broader set of experience with the underlying IaaS layer in conjunction with working with Cloud Foundry. My lab hardware was purchased from various places (eBay, Fry's, etc) when I could get deals on it. Rocking the Ghetto Lab At a high level, the hardware looks like this: Machine CPU Memory Storage Notes HP Proliant ML350 G5 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz 32 GB (Came with some disks, but mostly unused) vSphere Host 1, Added a 4 port Intel 82571EB Network Adapter HP Proliant ML350 G5 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz 32 GB (Came with some disks, but mostly unused) vSphere Host 2, Added a 4 port Intel 82571EB Network Adapter Whitebox FreeNAS server Intel Celeron CPU G1610 @ 2.60GHz 16 GB 3x 240GB MLC SSDs, in a ZFS stripe set, plus spinning d