Amazon’s S3 service appears to be down today. While I don’t have anything on S3, I view this outage as a good thing. I have been considering using Amazon’s cloud computing services (S3, EC2, SimpleDB) for statzen. I have been hesitant to build a system on their architecture because it is not easily replicable.
It is [...]
This Saturday, at 9:00 am sharp, Plato’s Closet Murfreesboro will be having it’s Grand Opening!
After spending almost two months buying only the best gently used clothing we will finally be able to sell it.
I will be there from at least 9am until 2pm.
The economy is in the shitter. The housing market sucks and way too much of the avg person’s net worth is tied up in it. The retail market sucks, but with the negative savings rate we have had for years, we actually need to not spur consumer spending. The US budget deficit is so large [...]
There is a great opinion piece in the current issue of Conde Nast Portfolio about “why companies should forget social responsibility — and why we should let them”. I will look for a link later when I get online (found it). It is a great article and you should read it if you are interested [...]
There doesn’t seem like there was a whole lot of R&D dollars behind the announcements at MacWorld. I would imagine Intel paid the brunt R&D to get the chip smaller in the MacBook Air. Other than that there wasn’t much new tech, mostly just new software updates. Could it be that Apple is [...]
Rex Hammock has posted some thoughts on what he has termed Mediacasting. The basic gist is that “advertising” is the conversation with your customers. It is a conversation that is happening across a wide variety of communication channels on a wide range of devices. A key point is that the only barrier to entry is [...]
A couple of days ago I left Sprint for AT&T. Recently I posted that now is the wrong time to buy a new cell phone (as Chuck Bryant reminded me). So what changed?
First off, let me just say that there has not been a 180 shift in my position. For many people now is not [...]
I had lunch with a couple of the guys from StudioNow today. It got me thinking again about the value add good editors can provide in today’s world where we are all creating (blogs, pictures, videos, etc).
For those that don’t know, StudioNow is a local (Nashville) company that can take a bunch of raw creative [...]
Last year I wrote a post titled “I Will Buy Your Idea“. It was a tongue-in-cheek post that was trying to make this point:
Ideas have no monetary value. The worth is in the implementation.
Dane Carlson picked it up and posted this on his Business Opportunities Weblog:
“Finally, someone recognizes the true value of a great idea: [...]
