openstack | 2011-02-10
What the Heck is Hyperscale?<rant> Please, can we not use the term “hyperscale”. It doesn’t have any meaning at all. If you say “a cloud that has 10,000 physical hosts” or “a cloud that […]
Category: Thought Tree
Thought Tree | 2009-11-10
Somebody in Marketing Needs to be FiredSitting here chatting with Padraig and listening to the television. A commercial comes on for Aciphex. Yep, the name is pronounced “Ass Effects”. Unbelievable. Somebody’s marketing department should be, well, […]
MySQL | 2008-03-08
For Those Who Say I Never Take Photos…I often get accused, especially by my European friends, of not being a true geek for two reasons: I don’t carry an expensive camera with me at all times — […]
MySQL | 2006-09-18
Moving to the Good Side of the ForceOK, so I returned from vacation late last night, after putting almost 1700 miles on my car this past four days. A friend of mine had his Master’s thesis show […]
MySQL | 2006-08-14
Interesting GPL Development Shaping UpRead a NewsForge article today about how the two lead developers of the GPU Gnutella client have amended the GPL to include a provision that bans the software’s use by […]
MySQL | 2006-07-18
Blog TroubleFirst, the reason I haven’t been blogging as much I haven’t been blogging nearly as much recently because my blog software has become almost unusable. I have been getting on […]
MySQL | 2006-02-10
Congratulations, Mike Kruckenberg!I hope everyone will join me in welcoming the newest member of the Kruckenberg family, Saul Adams Kruckenberg, who arrived in this world this past Wednesday. Another cute kid for […]
MySQL | 2005-12-15
About Being NiceIn case you haven’t heard, Linus Torvalds had a bit of a rant at the GNOME developers regarding quality user interfaces. In the course of the exchange, certain nasty words […]
Thought Tree | 2005-12-07
Busy, Busy, Busy Working on the HouseWork has progressed quickly this week as the crew and I have worked to begin winterizing the house on Sycamore Street. The roof has been completed, with work still being […]
Thought Tree | 2005-11-29
House Moving Along — Full Speed AheadSo, today the “crew” and I completed the tear off and outer plywood decking on the east side of the house. Very good to see things finally coming together! Haven’t […]