I had to test out a desktop virtualization product (Pano Logic) this week and as part of the installation I needed a VMware ESX base system. I’m a huge user of their Workstation product, but I had never used the ESX line since it used to be so expensive and required certified hardware. Things have changed though [...]
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Just ordered a new kindle
I just placed a pre-order for Amazon’s newest Kindle the other day. This one is to replace Jaimie’s Kindle since she was still using the very first generation model and there are quite a few updates in this newest version. Supposedly much better battery life, better contrast, and faster page turns, all great things for [...]
Trusting Facebook
There’s been a lot of discussion on the web over the last several weeks on how much trust we can put into Facebook when it comes to handling private data. They’re making a play to be the primary repository of identity on the web. The hub that other web sites link off of to determine [...]
Thoughts on Goldman Sachs Testimony
I’m watching the testimony live on Bloomberg TV right now and a couple things are sticking out. The question is coming up about the ability for a party to be a market maker and to also take part in the market. With highly liquid stocks, it seems like this is OK since there is a [...]
TV news is no better than following twitter
Saw some blog posts today discussing the provably wrong statements that Guiliani is making on the TV news stations and it’s led me to belief that TV news is no better than following twitter. It’s not real journalism. There is no control for making sure that the statements made are accurate. You’ll probably getter a [...]
Journalism Isn’t Dying, Newspapers Are
I just finished reading the article “The Story Behind the Story” in this month’s Atlantic Magazine where Mark Bowden goes through the backstory and context of the videos of now Justice Sotomayor. The article takes on the fall of real journalism and its replacement with political hit jobs. As someone raising an infant at home [...]
Energy Independence
I’m really happy to see all the work that has gone into getting conservation into people’s minds when they go through their day. Everyone is now talking about electric cars and plugin hybrids. In the long run though, I’m not nearly as interested in energy conservation as I am in new renewable energy sources. I [...]
The Myth Of The Rational Market
I just finished reading an excellent book on finance, The Myth Of The Rational Market by Justin Fox. This book will blow away a lot of what you learned in Econ 101 or have heard on the news. It turns out that many of the core ideas and theories of finance and economics have been [...]
Phone Spam
Got my first straight up spam phone call tonight. It was so over the top that I had to listen to it just to see how bad it was. A robo-dialed call from the 202 area code was offering secret weight loss berries from Siberia. All I had to do was leave my name and [...]
Google phases out referrals program the week before Chrome
Is it a coincidence that Google phased out it’s paid referrals program for Firefox, effective at the end of August, and introduces its own browser on September 2nd? I was playing around in the adsense management area today and saw that the referrals area was still there. Even though there was a message that stated [...]
Really enjoying the Kindle
I’ve got to say that I really enjoy reading books on the Amazon Kindle. I was lucky enough to get one for Christmas this year and have just been tearing through books on it ever since. It just seems really fitting to read as many sci-fi books as possible on the little device. It’s also [...]
Is the polish wearing off of Google’s shine?
A spat of stories coming out here and here about how Google is no longer the greatest thing since sliced bread. My personal opinion is that this was bound to happen eventually, it’s actually taken longer than I expected. I saw a story a few days ago that I wished I had saved mentioning that [...]
Audiobook update
Wow, the narrator makes all the difference. We picked up a different book for the drive home from Thanksgiving, “Basic Black” by Cathie Black on business. The 6 hour trip was over before we knew it. We’ve still got 3 hours left in the book, but a good audiobook makes the drive go by so [...]
PG&E is not my friend
I recieved a nice little notice from PG&E a couple of weeks ago that they would be doing some routine maintenance in my neighborhood and that they would need to shut the power off for several hours to complete it. The letter was a nice heads up that the power would probably be shut off [...]
Webshots is sold again
Well, this makes it twice now, that Webshots has been sold while I was working there. This looks like it will be the last time that I will get to go through a sale of this property since I won’t be making the move out to Cleveland to join the American Greetings Team. I want [...]