Others are subsidized by mom and pop, while trying to look independent. That’s behind the 20-year trend of dive bars and pre-ripped designer jeans. Keeping it real has always meant keeping it poor. That protestant-catholic work ethic creeps into non-religious modern consciousness — even though no one wants to actually work in a shit job. But look like they do.

Whether truly poor or acting poor, the reason for it is no good jobs for youngsters. None to suit the pretty good education that sprung up in the 1960s. That education served the parents of these 20-year olds well, but society failed the latter generation.

But, let’s not aggrandize schemes like ‘Human Intelligence Tasks’ because of their cool name. That’s just plain logocentrism, paying heed to the symbol rather than the real thing. In reality, HIT offers ‘mind less’ jobs, like counting the number of blue pins on a heavily populated Google map. Tasks that can’t yet be automated because they’re not in text, or the API is missing, or it costs too much to screen-scrape.

But in either case, its yet another reason to avoid using a damn database for largely flat content. And, that is the complete ease of porting content from one server to another.

I still don’t understand the need for SQL for content that is already structured by way of xml or pretty much flat. Urgh. Databases are like the automobiles of the computer world. Made necessary by poor system planning. And that one should be tm.

Please, could you explain a bit on how you configure scalr to update the DNS servers. I am trying to do the same.

I have scalr working on my own server on rackspace, creating farms and everything. But, I cannot work out how to get the DNS out. I installed bind9 on the server I have scalr and followed this: http://wiki.scalr.net/Installing_Scalr/BIND_Configuration
and it is not working.

Did you do that?

How do you populate the other DNS servers, by normal DNS transfers?

Thanks,
Leo