Michelle Munson of Aspera

Older AWS interview from 2009, but nice overview of why Aspera transport is so much faster vs. TCP.

XML document escape characters

There are only five:

"   "
'   '
<   &lt;
>   &gt;
&   &amp;

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945/where-can-i-get-a-list-of-the-xml-document-escape-characters

Full CDATA specs at http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

Google Public DNS

Been getting a lot of "waiting for apis.google.com"? Or "googleads.doubleclick.net"? Lagging out using Comcast DNS? Found this little nugget...!

Set your DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and you'll be all set.

Instructions
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

FAQ
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html

Documentary about Jeroen Wijering

WHOISJW? is a documentary about a very talented and successful young entrepreneur from Holland: Jeroen Wijering. He is the creator of the JW Player, a videoplayer which is used on countless websites throughout the world. Many very prestigious websites like Disney, Harvard, IMDB, Intel, NASA en The White House use his JW Player. Even YouTube ran on the JW Player in the first 18 months of their existence.

Full screen test