Writing by Brent Rockwood
Wired is running an article about the changing nature of big computing. It is no secret to most CTO’s that electricity and cooling are now the single largest costs in running a data center. By some estimates, Google and the other big search providers, for example, use up to 5GW to power and cool the [...]
How many times have you come up with a brilliant, million-dollar idea only to hear (or say to yourself), “Oh, so-and-so already did that.”
Stop doing that.
History is littered with examples of people coming to the party late, executing better, and eventually eating the incumbent’s lunch. Take, for example, Google. What do you think the world [...]
“Checking out names takes time—a couple of weeks in my case”
Tim Bray, The Open Source Process
I’ve heard this over and over. Anyone who has ever dealt with lawyers or the government while trying to do a trademark search or business name search or what have you has wondered…
Why does it take so long. Don’t they [...]
Reading my Saturday Globe and Mail, I came across the following quote from our very own Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Mayann Francis:
Self-help reading list: “[Rick Warren's] The Purpose Driven Life. The book enhanced my own beliefs that we are here for a purpose. It deals with religious and spiritual themes, which struck a response [...]
I’ve been reading a series of responses to this year’s Edge world question, “what are you optimistic about?” It’s a great question and the responses from some of the worlds smarter folks are illuminating.
On the one hand, I’m a bit of a newshound. I read at least one newspaper per day, and my feed list [...]
