Half Armenian, Full Eagle
Today in 1789, George Washington takes the oath of office as the first President of the United States.
I was going to write more, but I am not feeling well, sorry it’s short, but enjoy the quick history fact 
After the longest losing streak of the season at 5 games, the Red Sox were able to pull off a win thanks to Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia. Tonight’s pitchers were Jon Lester and Roy Halladay of Toronto. Halladay is a remarkable pitcher but he threw a complete game loss tonight when Ortiz came around to score with the help of Youk. I will get to that in a minute. Tonight’s game is proof that Dustin Pedroia was the right choice for Rookie of the Year in 2007 because of his amazing defense (Offense too).
Just like in the 7th inning of Clay Buchholz no hitter last year, Pedroia made the play of the game. However, this time it was in the top of the 9th inning with a man on 2nd, 2 outs, score tied 0-0. The ball flew over the head of Papelbon and everyone thought it was a RBI single, but Dustin dove then throwing it to first to get the out and end the frame.
In the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, they walked Ortiz (who almost hit a HR earlier in the AB) putting Manny at the plate. Manny hit the ball into center field putting Ortiz on second. Youk walks up and hits a ball to short left-center dropping to the ground. It would have been a close play at the plate if the outfielder was able to hang onto the ball and actually get a throw off, but he bobbled it and the Red Sox won.
Have you ever wondered how many servers Facebook has? How do they deal with the 26 million user visits each day. Om Malik gave me the answer. According to someone inside Facebook, the company has a total over 10,000 servers. There are 1,800 servers specifically for MySQL that is maintained my two DBAs (Database Administrators). I guess if my web application goes well, I will need to get a lot of servers. That seems a little much, but I guess they know what they are doing.
At my work, we have a bunch of servers as well…and by a bunch, I mean chop of a few zeros from Facebook’s total. Sources say that Facebook will be buying $9 million worth more of servers to add onto their $7 million they spend already.
Tonight on the live finale, Adam ‘Big Baller’ Jasinski was named the winner of Big Brother 9 by a vote 6-1 against Ryan. It was a very long 80ish days spent in the house and finally they left the house with Adam winning $500,000 and Ryan winning $50,000. Adam told the jury that he will be putting $100,000 of his money to go towards helping children in after school programs.
I really enjoyed this season and next season will start on July 13th.