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 we’ve seen one of their performances, and it was, in a word, amazing. The set for Delirium is huge, and plays an integral part in […]
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 last night inviting me to try out the beta of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), their newest web service offering. Here, I’m going to tell you […]
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 a long weekend in the Wisconsin Dells. We stayed at the Wilderness Resort with some friends, and had a good time (minus the injuries). Pictures […]
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 what makes it what they like to call a “game changer”: It’s all you can eat data storage with no upfront costs and no minimum […]
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 completed its transition to Intel processors so quickly. The PowerMac has now become a much faster Mac Pro, and while the Xserve name remains the […]
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 golf package for there from Casey and Kael on Father’s Day, so I’m starting to cash it in. I’ve been a sporadic golfer since college, […]
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 CDs to attract naive subscribers is long over. Anyone who would subscribe to AOL is already a member. There is absolutely no compelling reason to […]
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 energy to stay operational and really need to worry about natural disasters affecting the ability to offer their online services. If you think about it, […]