#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Finance::Quote;

my $q = Finance::Quote->new();
my %data = $q->fetch('usa', 'GOOG');
print $data{'GOOG', 'price'} . "\n";

Hackszine.com: Simple stock quote grabbing with Perl

VCs don’t typically enter a true due diligence process until after the 2nd or 3rd meeting. That’s when they start talking to experts in the field, customers, management team members, conducting technical reviews and combing through financial models. Broadly speaking, there are three stages to the process:

Seeing Both Sides: Due Diligence Reveals All - To The VC

A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.

The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.

The new research found that cells lining mice's blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents' blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is "no doubt" produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said.

"Now that we know hydrogen sulfide's role in regulating blood pressure, it may be possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to the current methods of treatment for hypertension," said Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., a co-author of the study detailed in the Oct. 24th issue of the journal Science.

Snyder and his colleagues compared normal mice to mice that were missing a gene for an enzyme known as CSE, long suspected as being responsible for making hydrogen sulfide. As they measured hydrogen sulfide levels taken from tissues of the CSE-deficient mice, the scientists found that the gas was depleted in the cardiovascular systems of the altered mice. By contrast, normal mice had higher levels of the gas, thereby showing that hydrogen sulfide is naturally made by mammalian tissues using CSE.

Next, the mice were subjected to higher blood pressures comparable to serious hypertension in humans. Scientists had them respond to a chemical called methacholine that relaxes normal blood vessels. The blood vessels of the CSE-lacking mice hardly relaxed, indicating that hydrogen sulfide is a huge contender for regulating blood pressure.

Hydrogen sulfide is the most recently discovered member of a family of gasotransmitters, small molecules inside our bodies with important physiological functions.

This study is the first to reveal that the CSE enzyme that triggers hydrogen sulfide is activated itself in the same way as other enzymes when they trigger their respective gasotransmitter, such as a nitric oxide-forming enzyme that also regulates blood pressure, Dr. Snyder said.

It works even better when you pull the covers over her head, because hysterical laughing lowers BP too.

The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure - Yahoo! News

What's all this?

The unvarnished stream of consciousness from an entrepreneur in the making. These are the things that are rattling around in my head while I work to get my product launched...

An Atlanta entrepreneur's anonymous musings about his struggle for success.

An Entrepreneur’s Scattered Thoughts on Whatever | Ichisan Rising

The biggest news today comes from Amazon, which is staking the “beta” label off of its EC2 service and announcing the following upgrades:

* Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
* There’s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
* Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2.
* Microsoft SQL Server is now available in beta form on EC2.
* We plan to release an interactive AWS management console.
* We plan to release new load balancing, automatic scaling, and cloud monitoring services.

The Cloud Is Shaping Up. Amazon Beefs Up EC2, Bechtolsheim Shifts His Attention To Arista

You Aren't Good Enough

Matt Trout. You Aren't Good Enough @ YAPC::TV

Ha!

10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard

Your Very Own Backhoe by miff 1.) what is it? backhoe is a backdoor daemon that copies a rootshell into /tmp periodically, then deletes it. You set the frequency that you want rootshells to appear, and you set the amount of time that they will persist before backhoe deletes them. This gives the user who knows what to look for a convenient backdoor without having to modify any system binaries or otherwise fuck someone's box. OK, so what? It puts a rootshell in /tmp every so often, BFD. Well, to make things more interesting, it also spawns multiple copies of itself, you know, in case root sees some strange process or behavior and decides to kill -9 the bitch. The separate copies (you pick how many you want) actually monitor each other using signals to make sure that all is well with the backdoor. If any of the copies of backhoe find that any of the other copies are missing or not functioning, backhoe goes into defense mode. In defense mode, backhoe kills all root sessions, spawns a new set of daemons (in addition to the ones already running), and reinitializes all of them. Normal operation continues, with a few more instances of backhoe in memory. In order to make backhoe harder to kill all at once, I added a disguise routine which makes backhoe appear to be one of any number of normal processes (at random), or joke processes, if you prefer to fuck with the admin.

I rewrote this in C, but was too embarrassed by my C to release the code. Was just looking it up to find out how to rename a pid with... $0 it turns out.

Miff - Backhoe

scalr-discuss

scalr-discuss | Google Groups

DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Replicated - BETA Replicated database support

DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Replicated - BETA Replicated database support - search.cpan.org