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After three years of research and development on a distributed storage system, Dominik Grolimund and his collaborators are ready to unveil the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala is decentralised and can harness idle resources of participating computers to build a large, secure, and reliable online storage. This enables its users to trade parts of their local storage for online storage and it allows us to provide a better service for free. In this Google Tech Talk, Grolimund explains what Wuala is and how it works; he also also show a demo of the application. Be warned though - it really is a tech talk … most of the maths and concept details went right over my head. Nevertheless: I think the video gives a good overall understanding, even for a non-geek like me .

For some strange reason it seems to be difficult lately to sometimes play YouTube videos on this site; if you get an error message saying that “this video is no longer available”, click here to go directly to the YouTube website where - it is available. Very annoying bug …

I’ve just come back from Adelaide (the latter explaining the lack of postings for the last few days), and I had decided to do something this morning I already wanted to do before my trip: check out Wuala - which I will in a tic . Going to YouTube though, I found this little clip - on a movie called “Hard Walk”, to be released in the States on December 21. I’m sure it’ll come to Australia, like most questionable Hollywood production warez. “Walk Hard” is a parody of the biopic genre, and mainly caricaturises the 2005 film, “Walk the Line” (which documented the life of Johnny Cash), following the fictional character Dewey Cox as he eventually gets caught up in the fame of rock and roll. The film contains a lot of references to other biopics, such as those of Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe; even the movie’s poster is a reference to the “young lion” photos of Jim Morrison. Despite my suspicion that the movie will be crap, I nevertheless quite like this song and its undertones …