Google Just Recalculated PageRank!
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 27. May, 2009 | View Comments
Although I’m no search engine expert, I’m naturally interested in “how all this stuff works.” That’s why I’ve never owned any gadget I’ve never taken apart (iPhone, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro included!) and why I’ve recently become interested in how the Internet search and referral world works. I’m not interested in being a search [...]
Google Is Heading For A Cliff; What Will They Do?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Personal on 22. May, 2009 | View Comments
Google is the most important company to the Internet. Hyberbole? I think not! Without Google, the Internet that we all know and love would be a very different place, as would the business of IT. Along with Microsoft and the supporting community around LAMP, Google is the very foundation of modern computing. But the foundation of Google itself, its ability to rank Internet content and present relevant information to its users, is at risk. What will they do to fix it?
Ten-Year Trend: Mobility
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 11. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
What is the megatrend of this decade? I suggest that we are witnessing a wholesale shift from information tied to place/device to information mobility. Cloud computing, server virtualization, and even flash memory are all contributors to this massive trend, along with the user-side trends of the post-PDA mobile phone, 3G data, social web services, and connected home.
How To Set Up iPhone Exchange ActiveSync
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 10. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
It’s finally here! The iPhone now has most of the functions of the BlackBerry – over-the-air push and sync of Exchange email, contacts, and calendars! Apple let the 2.0 OS out of the bag earlier today, and intrepid souls (and me) have taken the plunge and installed it.
While most people, including me, headed to the [...]
Who Cares About Copyright? Not Gawker Media’s Jalopnik
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 30. Apr, 2008 | View Comments
Yeah, we live in bizarre world of copyrighted conflicts… It seems like someone is always trying to exercise control over “their content” and using copyright as their bludgeon.
First, let me clue you in to a secret. I’m a car nut. More precisely, I love the engineering of cars – and once delighted in documenting esoteric [...]
Enterprise Storage Is Nearing Its Demise!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 20. Sep, 2007 | View Comments
With just a few clicks, a contributor over at Wikipedia is about to delete our entire field of work! The article on enterprise storage is nominated for deletion because the readers didn’t believe it existed as an entity.
If you disagree, and think enterprise storage is more real than “enterprise chewing gum”, please head over [...]
