Archive for December, 2008

One Wish

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Once upon a time, in the ethereal realm known as cyberspace, there was a little bit sitting alone in its ominous off state. "Being zero really sucks; I truly wish I could be more!", howled the downhearted bit. The exclamation was overheard by a peripatetic one bit. "Why so gloomy, ...

Randy Pausch on time management

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Do you guys remember Randy Pausch? No? What about his remarkable last lecture? Today, for the first time, I came across Randy's fantastic take on a very pressing matter for most of us: time management. Here's the entire YouTube video: If you don't have enough time to watch the whole thing ...

Data centers on wheels

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

After we all heard Google's incredible plans to take its data centers offshore, many speculated it was only a matter of time before Amazon, Microsoft and IBM (the big cloud players -- cloud-ies?) came up with their own futuristic plans in order to reduce the tremendous costs that operating massive ...