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  Montserrat Volcano erupts again

  01.08.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Montserrat Volcano erupts again

  On the small Carribean island of Montserrat, the volcano that has been active since 1995 sent a plume of ash and smoke ~9 km (5.6 miles) into the atmosphere. Since the volcano came alive, about 50% of the population has quit the island. Nearly half of the land mass is an exclusion zone that is […]

• Business, Energy, Technology & Science

  $428 per server per year

  12.06.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on $428 per server per year

  Garden variety data center photo Yesterday I had a conversation with a colleague who is now working in a large, and I mean large, server environment. There are many challenges he faces, but chief among them is power consumption and cost. They are now having to place their data centers according to power supply capabilities […]

• Technology & Science

  Akismet is GREAT!

  12.01.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you write a blog and use WordPress, the one indispensible utility you must use is Akismet. It’s a filter for comment spam and boy does it work. To date, 74.9% of the comments submitted to this blog are spam. Akismet catches them, corrals them, and deletes them automatically. All I have to do is […]

• Coastal Stuff, Innovation, Technology & Science

  Automated Tsunami Watch/Warnings

  11.27.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Automated Tsunami Watch/Warnings

  If you live on or near a coast, this is for you. NOAA, has launched a handy-dandy service that will inform you via email (to a regular account or mobile device) of tsunami watches/warnings. Pretty cool and potentially, very useful. Of course there are the normal disclaimers involved, but email is as reliable as any […]

• Business, Technology & Science

  Investment Advice: Short Comcast (Part 2)

  11.21.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Earlier this year I wrote about a dismal experience I had with Comcast, you know, the Comcastic bunch from TV. In that article, I wrote that they would soon be fired in my household due to unfriendly business practices (still true, only the timing has changed.) Since that entry there have been two interesting developments. […]

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