blogworthy: part 2

missing event

jose, who was an integral part of that blogworthy day mentioned that i had overlooked an event that truly did cap the day off. on reflection, yes indeed i had.

on the way back to the office from the alabang town center, and while discussing what would have happened had our car-driving officemate not looked over to see the awaited one -- the discussion evolved into a song. as in literally, someone began to sing. bad pun applicable here.

but that was all right, in the context of the day. quite normal, in fact.

building blocks

every once in a while in my line of work (whatever that is) i am confronted by the spectre of the new. and, as with all apparitions, such things demand a response: either a gut-feel-knee-jerk reaction or a slow and measured pseudo-scientific approach.

much as the latter would interfere with my spasmodic compositing schedule, i resolved to check this new the slow and sure way.

what is this new of which i speak? essentially, its a computer/raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) combination -- an all-in-one solution were one to host, say, a web portal business.

for the needs of our 3-D production, however, it would necessarily have to cut the mustard under the duress imposed by the ravenous data requirements of a sizable render farm.

...if it worked.

which, sad to say, it hasn't.

perhaps its just the way our system grew by leaps and bounds, with random elements falling by chance into some sort of workable whole. note: workable, not ideal.

but ideal might be the fruit of years, even decades in the business (think pixar), and we're barely a year old.

back to the building block. turns out it works by making some assumptions about how a web-based business would be configured. a requires b to get to c, and so on. except that in our case, we go straight to c from a -- do not pass "go", do not collect x sum of cash (monopoly speak).

so the poor building block cannot make sense of our network and the way its put together, the assumptions on which the block was built do not hold true in our reality field.

...sometimes the bleeding edge of technology can be quite painful.