An excellent article from the super-smart Don MacAskill, CEO of Smugmug, on how they survived the Amazon Web Services outage and a few tidbits about how their system is designed. One little tidbit:...

TUAW has an article up today wondering if Thunderbolt might mean the end of the line for the Mac Pro in its current form: The arrival of the Thunderbolt interface, Meta Media says, will allow A...

In part 1, we had a quick overview of things to think about when looking at colocation vendors and data centers. In part 2, we looked into your network and your bandwidth usage. Today, we’ll talk a...

In part 1, I gave a quick overview of some things to think about when choosing the data center vendor you want to colocate with. Today, we’ll talk about one particular topic, the network and bandwi...

There’s been a lot of talk the last few days about Facebook’s Open Compute project, where they have published info about their servers and data centers. It’s interesting reading. But, arguably, not...

Seems like every day we’re flooded with new consumer-targeted cloud storage companies, promising easy backups and possibly tempting prices. And most of them have a free tier, offering a few GB to g...

The other day, someone came to the door and rang the doorbell. When I answered, he was standing back about 10 feet (which everyone seems to do now - seriously, when did that start?), and he said so...

A couple of weeks ago, I read this post from entrepreneur Daniel Jalkut (inspired by these posts) about entrepreneurship, ambition, and whether to keep your startup small and just you, or grow it i...

If you haven’t yet, you should take a look at Do More Faster, a book by Brad Feld and David Cohen about the experiences of early-stage investors and entrepreneurs. I’ve even got a chapter in there...

As many of you know, I’ve been spending much of my time lately trading stocks and options. It’s been quite an adventure - I went from being a buy-and-holder starting in the mid-90’s, to a day trade...