The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,015 today. Making my Dow 10K by Labor Day prediction 6 weeks pre-mature. If you don’t mind, I’ll take both the loss on the prediction and the increase in overall optimism.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
MacBook Back Up Strategy Part 2
A couple years ago, I duct-tape-and-baling-twined a backup strategy together with rsync and ical with an offsite backup to the down defunct StrongSpace. Since then, I’ve attempted to use Apple’s TimeMachine – both with a local drive and a driver connected to my AirPort Extreme. Too frequently, I ended up corrupt backup files or the …
For the Future of Radio – Tune to 802.11
Yesterday, at the Village gym, tired of my normal workout playlist, I brought up JungleTrain on the iPod Touch. My favorite, niche internet radio station, streaming from somewhere in Europe, picked up by a device in my pocket, on a random treadmill in Minnesota. Exactly the audio I was looking for. No ads, no data …
[Client] Rackspace’s NoMoreServers.com Launches
Rackspace formally announced a project I’ve been working on: NoMoreServers.com is a rally cry of the computing-as-a-service era. The site seeks to empower businesses to acknowledge the decline of in-house computing and the rise of the All Cloud Enterprise (ACE). Covering hosting, cloud computing, SaaS, and the key vendors driving them (eg: Amazon, Google, Rackspace, …
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Mike Keliher on Short URL Trust
“When you see a TinyURL, you have no idea what the link is going to point you to. Viruses, spyware, porn and all sorts of other unwanted or inappropriate stuff are just a click away. …what if you actually could trust a shortened URL?….The need for safety and security online will not go away. Don’t …