Do you really think the EU would host a publicly funded project on US soil? :p

Past 9/11 the EU members realized they’d better route their intra-European bank transactions through a host physically based on European soil instead of an EU organization using US data centers, which has just recently been achieved. As long as Amazon, Microsoft, Force.com cannot guarantee that US institutions will not interfere with EU data and services hosted in their data centers they will not be considered in the foreseeable future.

Plus, The Hague is not in “Belguim” and the Belgian government was not involved in this project…

Why, with your well-documented hate (on this blog and others) for everything French, do you visit Paris at all?

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Adobe is now promoting Zend Platform as the default or preferred platform for Flash development. The rift grows as MS tries to push Silverlight.

I’m pleased, very pleased as a Zend Framework and Zend studio user. If you were a Creative Suite Premium CS3 or Flex 3 license holder you got this email. I have both.

Does it matter if they only had 1000 hits an hour? Of course not.

Europeans don’t know about CDN and the Akamai cache, and that’s good for America. We’re 2 steps ahead, even in 2008.

TC uses a varnish frontend with backends so Arrington doesn’t have to pay Akamai.

Via: 1.1 varnish

Cause Arrington is fickle like that. I’d say a government project should probably roll out a few grand for CDN though. That’s REALLY cheap of them.

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I have pics of the art stuff in the UK and Germany from subsequenty Eurotrips, but they’re kind of sucky. Next time I will be armed with the Android G1 and pictorial for instant GeoTagging.

I’ll never figure out why Arrington and friends report maniacly on websites being down, especially those that haven’t launched yet, but whatever. If anybody knows where I can score high res pics of the top floor of the Louvre let me know. I wanna make some posters for my new Apt.

Enjoy!

We are doing our utmost to reopen Europeana in a more robust version as soon as possible.

We will be back by mid-December.

For a preview on Europeana and further information. ”

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Mid-December ????

Why the F!ck is this on TechCrunch today?

I can’t reach it. I wanted to see the paintings from the top floor of the Louvre. The renaissance paintings in high res. They don’t let you take pictures on that floor of the museum.
(I know, I tried and a security guard stopped me)

I wanna see those paintings online in high res. The next time I fly to Paris, I’ll be tempted to create a hidden high res camera in sewn in my shirt with hidden thumb trigger so I can snap pics of the paintings when I visit again.

I dunno why it pisses them off if you don’t use flash.

Do they have pics of the Louvre paintings in Europeana or not? The site is constantly down.