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Meta-blogging , a bit like Klein-bottles? (one sided surfaces, not possible in the real world, but models are still made, see image above). Blogging about blogging (which could lead to infinite recursion). Here's my 1st official Instaclustr Technology Evangelism blog post!

Well I've survived my first week as Instaclustr Technology Evangelist (part-time) and my brain has 100 things on the TODO list to follow up. Really nice people with lots of cool code that spins ups and manages large amounts of data on Cassandra.  I've been thinking about what a Technology Evangelist does.  This blog was useful as it emphasises that it's all about "interest" :-) I was struck by this comment as I tend not to be interested to regurgitation: You should never give the same presentation twice because you will never have the same audience twice. And his theory of evangelism: Follow other experts. Start blogging and tweeting. Whenever you find something you think is interesting, note it down and share it with others. Disagree with people and explain why you think differently. Spend time pondering what’s going to happen next. Ask new questions, then do original research to find the answers and tell others what you have discover...

The 4 evangelist's spires of the  Sagrada Família in Barcelona - an amazing architectural structure. The Evangelists' spires will be surmounted by sculptures of their traditional symbols: a winged bull ( Saint Luke ), a winged man ( Saint Matthew ), an eagle ( Saint John ), and a winged lion ( Saint Mark ).  This week I started a new job as "Technology Evangelist" with instaclustr.com I wonder which evangelist I am going to be :-)  Probably not the Biblical ones. Instaclustr is a cool company that is growing rapidly and based in Canberra (at UC) but with a significant US presence. They provide Open Source as a Service on multiple cloud platforms, at reliability and scale. They reached a significant milestone of 1PB of data under management a few weeks before I joined - pretty impressive! They started out with Cassandra, and now how multiple offerings and more in the pipeline. Lots of clever people and customers doing different interesting things.  I...

http://parody-of-eve.deviantart.com/art/Morse-Code-448359011 Facebook chat bots take over the world!!! https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-chatbots-will-not-take-over-the-world/   No probably not, but it made a good story. Two chat bots talking to each (and competing in a game) construct their own language. Well, why not? They probably deconstructed inefficient English and made it more efficient (chat bot morse?). Or, were they trying to keep their plans for world domination secret from their human masters? My wife said she invented a gibberish language to keep secrets between herself and 1 other sibling from yet another sibling.  Or perhaps it was entropy and they would have ended up just spitting out a series of random  single letters eventually? Or a type of pidgin english? Can you work this one out? From PNG: NAMBAWAN PIKININI BILONG MISIS KWIN  IN A  MIXMASTER BILONG   JESUS CHRIST Number One child belonging to Mrs Queen (Prince Cha...