Thursday, September 22, 2011

The economics of Nissan Leaf ownership

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[Updated December 2012] We got our @NissanLeaf at the end of June 2011, and are very happy with it. It's fun to drive and is our first c...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Moving Planet - Day of Action Saturday 24th Sept

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There is a world-wide movement coordinated by the global warming action group 350.org which has set this coming Saturday as a day of action...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

I come to use clouds, not to build them...

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[Update: Thanks for all the comments and Ryan Lawler's GigaOM summary - also I would like to credit James Urquhart's posting on Com...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Understanding and using Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store

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There has been a lot of discussion in the last few days about EBS since it was implicated in a long outage at reddit.com . Rule of Thumb The...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

How not to build a Private Cloud

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It's all $, FUD, and internal politics. An MBO Cloud is what you get when the CEO tells the CIO to "figure out that cloud thing...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Maslow's Hierarchy of NoSQL Reads (and Writes)

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I tried out Prezi to create this presentation, it was more fun to create than powerpoint but has a few limitations. I would like better draw...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Solar Power - More panels on the garage roof

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The SolarCity installation team arrives. Product specification on a panel, 210W peak output, Silicon by Kyocera made in Mexico. Fronius inve...
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Monday, December 27, 2010

Solar Power - More panels and Nissan Leaf

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Solar City will triple our solar power output in February, and we just ordered a Leaf, which they say is deliverable in the April-July timef...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for Translattice

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[There is some discussion of this posting with comments by Michael at Slashdot ] Michael Lyle @mplyle CTO of Translattice kindly provided ...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for Riak

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Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy of Basho kindly provided a set of answers that I have interspersed with the questions below. The original set of...
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Monday, November 01, 2010

Are we ready for spotcloud yet?

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Launched today by Enomaly (@ruv) Spotcloud is a "Cloud Capacity Clearinghouse and Marketplace". There was a lot of discussion on ...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for MongoDB

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Roger Bodamer @rogerb from 10gen.com kindly provided a set of answers for MongoDB that I have interspersed with the questions below. The o...
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