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This blog has been quiet lately because I’m on vacation with my family on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Our condo has good internet connectivity, and I’ve used it a few times to keep up with email late at night, but mostly this has been a pretty relaxing week. The least relaxing thing we’ve done […]

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Oracle is on the march again — buying grid software company Tangasol.  http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=76604&src=site-marq Oracle may be coming to its senses about the grid space, and the importance of application performance and scalability.  Following up on its aquisition of Sleepycat last year, its interest in in-memory solutions continues.  This is more validation from a (very) large […]

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Oh, Robert.  I had hoped, since this blog is relatively lightly read, to escape this — but I’ve been tagged by the Five Things meme, and will not shirk. Five Things You May Not Have Known About Me: I am teaching my 15 1/2 year old daughter to drive.  Nothing at work is stressful anymore. […]

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As promised, here’s the latest from my experiences with Velocity Micro.  When last we left my poor sick PC, it was on the operating table at Velocity Micro’s labs in Richmond, VA.  After a two-week illness here at home, when a house call did not do the trick, it went back to its birthplace for […]

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OK, I’ve resisted the temptation to blog about this all year, but since Dan has a long post about it today I might as well toss in my two cents worth.  As any reader of WestCoastGrid knows, the Pushup Thing is a New Year’s resolution that has been handed down from Dan’s brother Dave to […]

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Kevin Burton is up in arms over the advertising campaign being run by Bigfix.  He’s concerned that poor innocents on the Web won’t understand that the fake news stories placed in some blogs and news sites are, well, fake. Since I’m only about one-and-a-half degrees of separation from BigFix (I know a couple of people who used […]

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I have to admit, I was pulling for the Mets in the NLCS — but now that it’s the Cardinals and Tigers, some long-unaccessed memories of the 1968 World Series come flooding back.  (OK, OK, I’m old.)  I was eight years old and just entering my formative years as a baseball fan; I can’t remember a […]

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Robert W. Anderson started his blog, currently known as Expert Texture, one year ago today.  He celebrates at with a divide-by-zero joke. As Digipede’s oldest and best-read blogger, he’s an inspiration to us all.  Happy Birthday, E.T.

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Not posting much lately because I’m on vacation with my family in Washington, DC. It’s the kids’ first trip Back East (time to see some REAL American history), and we’ve been having a great (exhausting) time. For me, one of the unexpected highlights was seeing SpaceShipOne in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (where I […]

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Today I join the conversation.  Thanks to Robert Scoble and Shel Israel for Naked Conversations; I only got through about 50 pages before I said “alright already, I get it, I’m in.”  (Not to worry, Robert — I’ll finish it….) Thanks all the more to fellow Digipede bloggers Robert W. Anderson, Dan Ciruli, and Kim […]

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