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This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from September 2008

Richard Stallman gets reactionary on clouds

GNU founder Richard Stallman is denouncing clouds as a proprietary trap. I greatly respect this man, but I have problems with his statements on two levels. First, I have previously argued that the most important and game changing factor of cloud computing is not the idea of storing your stuff on the interweb, (which is [...]


VMworld 2008

Just got back from Vegas for VMworld. By my calculations I’m only $25 down after six poker tournaments, but this is not a post about gambling. Instead I’ll offer a brief analysis of what I saw and experienced.
Clouds are on the horizon
From the cloud-themed t-shirts and signage of the event, to VMware’s vCloud initiative announcement, [...]


USPS: Arrival At Unit? Really?

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the delivery of my new light meter (for my newly acquired TLR camera) for several days now, watching the USPS tracking page like a hawk. And today in the morning, it said “Arrival at Unit”. I ran downstairs only to find…nothing.
Of course, I had once again fallen for the old obscure-naming-to-confuse-customers [...]