Java Posse #134 - Interview with Josh Reed about Antarctica

Interview with Josh Reed about CHRONOS, ANDRILL and Antarctica Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Josh Reed is one of our long time listeners, and he wrote in to tell us, from Antarctica! In this interview, Josh tells us what CHRONOS and ANDRILL are all about, how they use Java, and of course what life is like in Antarctica. Josh Reed's Blog http://josh-in-antarctica.blogspot.com/ CHRONOS http://www.chronos.org/ ANDRILL http://andrill.org/ PSICAT http://portal.chronos.org/psicat-site/ Blog - http://jareed.blogspot.com/ PSICAT wins Eclipsecon award for best open source application - http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t91124.rhtml Antarctica links http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/mcmurdo/ http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/ science/stationlife.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Ice_Shelf http://www.iodp.org/iodp_journals/ sd3_06_ch9_deep_drilling_w_andrill.pdf http://www.antarcticconnection.com/ antarctic/weather/survival.shtml John Carpenter's "The Thing" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/ Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Or send us email - [email protected]