To anticipate and prevent
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I’ve been using Mozilla Weave. It is a really cool idea, and really critical in this day and age of most tech savvy users having at least 2 computers (if not more). Weave, for those that don’t know, basically takes everything in your browser and backs it up…
It really humors me how much news I’ve seen as of late about “Cloud Computing”. Granted I’ve gotten more into that specific niche, so, I’m reading more into it. The one thing that a number of “major” news stories tout is how much money will be saved by using the “Cloud”. News flash… Only if…
So not too long ago, we were at $4 a gallon for gasoline and the price was climbing every week. It seemed like the sky was the limit. It was stupid as everyone knew oil was wildly over priced, but still it rose. Gas was on the way to the very “real” possibility of $5…
I’ve been an avid XM Radio fan for many years, since I heard of the concept of satellite radio. This isn’t just because I’m a tech geek, but because at the time I was living in Lake Tahoe and radio up there sucks… a lot. There aren’t many local stations to Tahoe, stations from Reno…
As of late, I’ve been spending a good amount of time reading. Partially, this is because I’ve found some good books to read, partially, because I’ve got my Kindle back. It got broken, and Amazon was kind enough to replace it for free. Anyways, back to the reading. I started on a series of books…
I’ve recently begun tinkering with Amazon Web Services (specifically their EC2 service) and RightScale. The major difference between these “Cloud” computing platforms and others is that the “instance” (i.e A running virtual machine) is temporary. Once it is shut down, all the data is gone. Additionally, the RightScale (and fairly common) way about going things…
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