Cirque du Soleil Delirium: A Short Review
Last night Casey and I attending the Grand Forks performance of Cirque du Soleil's Delirium, their traveling concert featuring remixed music from other Cirque shows. This was the first time…
Early Look: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Update @ 2:45pm: Jon Udell has a quick word on EC2, complete with a screencast demo. His one word review: "Wow". Like Chris Pirillo, I received an email from Amazon…
Tuesday Afternoon Random Topics
Here is some quasi-random about what I've been up to lately. Just to warn you, it's going to be all over the map! We got back late last night from…
Amazon S3: Utility Computing in Practice
Have you ever heard of Amazon S3? It's the company's Simple Storage Service that lets you use its computing infrastructure for your own purposes. Ok, that's pretty cool, but here's…
Apple WWDC 2006
No, I'm not actually at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, but that won't keep me from commenting on the Steve Jobs keynote address. First, I'm pretty impressed that Apple…
My First Lesson
I took my very first golf lesson at the King's Walk golf course after work today with Dan Tannahill, one of the local PGA experts. I got a really great…
End of Days for AOL?
The news came out recently that AOL is planning on moving to an ad supported business model. Why? Because it has no other choice. AOL's days of spamming mailboxes with…
Power Hungry
I was thinking recently about the tech companies needing huge data centers: the Googles, Microsofts, Yahoos, Limelight Networks, and Akamais of the world. These businesses depend on reliable sources of…