Twitter in Japan after 3-11 or 11-MAR-2011

I'm really thinking about restricting my tweets to tech issues only.

Tweets in Japanese have been getting too political these days, especially after the 3-11 accidents and disasters. People are less restrictive on expressing op-ed tweets, and the tweets further invoke even more harsh exchanges of discussions without careful thoughts, often lead to blackmailing.

I do understand people in Japan including myself have legitimate fears against the possible nuclear and predicted earthquake/tsunami disasters. And I accept people have rights to openly discuss those matters. Twitter, however, is not a good place to have discussions with showing sufficient clarifications and enough pieces of evidence.

My technical interests for Erlang/OTP as of April 2011

This is a list of my technical interests for Erlang/OTP as of April 2011:

• Catching up the latest cryptographic algorithms, including hash functions, shared-key cryptography, public-key cryptography, pseudo random number generators (PRNGs), while making them efficient in parallel/concurrent execution environment;
• Delay tolerance network technologies which can handle days, weeks, months of message delivery delays;
• Fundamental support functions of IPv6, especially for Distributed Erlang and epmd, and cryptographic transport support with SSL/TLS;
• DNSSEC-compatible resolver implementation for inet_res module;
• Large binary heap handling of BEAM, and the programming methodologies for the faster NIF implementation, including the performance measurement;
• PRNGs with small context/internal-state size, e.g., Wichmann-Hill 1982/2006, LShift, XOR32;
• PRNGs with large context/internal-state size, e.g., SFMT;
• TAI or leap-second handling by NIF;
• Privilege separation techniques between BEAM instances (e.g., virtualization, FreeBSD Jail); and
• the effective usage and choice of port drivers, linked-in drivers, and NIFs

And projects I'm interested in (but not limited to):

• Disco Project, a MapReduce implementation
• ZeroMQ and other general queueing systems
• UBF, BERT-RPC, and other messaging formats
• CouchDB

And don't forget I'll be hosting the ACM Erlang Workshop 2011.

(This article is a revised version of http://heikou-konton.blogspot.com/2011/02/erlangotp.html (originally written in Japanese.)