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2TB disk for $300!
This is just “WOW”!!! Western Digital just released a new 2TB disk. Time to upgrade my home storage solution 🙂 As always, James is keeping track and analyzing storage-related costs.
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Discovering new music
On Thursday I was at Big Daddy‘s for Fractal‘s visit to the Pacific North-West. Netflix‘s Adrian Cockcroft has been a “roadie” since their beginning and listed under “guilt by association” on the band’s site* :-). He made the trip with them so it was nice to catch up with him. To my surprise, eBay‘s Paul…
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Great Coldplay video
Yes, I am a big fun! 🙂 Thanks to Nuno for forwarding.
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Famulus hits the road
Alex Wade and I are going to be in the UK in February to talk and showcase Famulus. We are going to have the new bits with us for developers to play with and new features and samples to talk about. Here’s the announcement. MSR Research Output Repository Platform @ Dev8D Come participate in the…
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Skiing with Jim
It’s been a wonderful weekend so far. The weather has been amazing: sunshine and blue sky. The snow was not fantastic, though, but we can’t have everything. It’s been absolutely fantastic seeing Jim and his wife again. I miss it how we tease each other and all the geeky discussions 🙂 Here are some photos…
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2 wives, 87 children?
This is just crazy. Over the weekend and during a conversation with my skiing baddies Simran and Theoni, Simran mentioned the story of a woman who had 69 children!!! We couldn’t believe it so he just sent us the reference. Apparently it’s a story from the 1800’s reported by multiple sources. It’s not 100% certain…
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Windows 7
I am seriously impressed. A huge improvement, in terms of speed and responsiveness from Vista. I’ve been using the M3 build of Windows 7 for some time now but the Beta 1 is awesome. I love the “boot from a VHD” feature. It’s going to be available for everyone on Friday. Give it a spin.
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Help! please… Cloud Computing and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
I was wondering whether the community out there could help me. If you don’t know the answer, please blog about it and point people here so we can find the answer, if there is one… Few months ago I read in Robert‘s blog about the distinction he made between “Infrastructure as a Service”, “Platform as…
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Happy New Year everyone
I wish for the world to be in a better place next year. May every moment of our lives in 2009 help us better understand our world and our fellow humans, come closer to our environment and protect it, push us to become better human beings. Be happy, love, and smile!
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S-Expressions vs XML
I’ve been playing with S-Expressions again. It’d have been sooooo great if the world had adopted them instead of XML. They are just so tidy.