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[Blog update] Added tag clouds

Folksonomy is really taking off. Here be tag clouds, then, courtesy of TagCloud Beta . The overview: Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Coupled with del.icio.us tags , the rendered clouds look real nifty. My tags look a bit weird, but hey, it's beta after all. Have fun. Update : I've taken them down. The tag cloud looks butt-ugly.

PUP Non-Traditional Study Program, checklist

Polytechnic University of the Philippines Center for Institutional Non-Traditional Study Program and Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program 3rd Floor NALRC, Mabini Campus, Sta. Mesa, Manila +63 (44) 333 7409 * pebre_ac[at]yahoo[dot]com Contents of Comprehensive Curriculum Vitae and List of Required Supporting Documents Letter of application to the University President ( Dr. Samuel M. Salvador ) through the Director ( Dr. Theresita V. Atienza ), CINTSP-ETEEAP. Recommendation of three notable persons in area of specialization. Educational background Original transcript of records (with two photocopies) Honorable dismissal from the school last attended Work experience (minimum of five years) Service record or certificate of employment Appointment and/or designation with level of position and job description and responsibilities Other proofs of work experience Innovation, invention, research and publication Application for or actual patent or copyright Manuscript...

Papers at Google Labs

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Here are some interesting papers spewed out by Google Labs . A few abstracts are below. The Google File System We have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault tolerance while running on inexpensive commodity hardware, and it delivers high aggregate performance to a large number of clients. ... The file system has successfully met our storage needs. It is widely deployed within Google as the storage platform for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development efforts that require large data sets. The largest cluster to date provides hundreds of terabytes of storage across thousands of disks on over a thousand machines, and it is concurrently accessed by hundreds of clients. Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture Amenable to extensive parallelization, Google's Web search application lets different queries run ...