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Entries from March 2006

New InfoTech Article: Logical Technology

March 24th, 2006 · No Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The latest InfoTech article published in Landscape Management Magazine on using logic to solve technology problem is now available online. Technology is built on logic. Problems with technology have logical answers.
InfoTech: Logical Technology

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Tags: Business · General · Technology

Lego and Mass Customization

March 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Fast Company magazine has a great article on Lego’s new plan to use mass customization of their product to deliver more personalized product offering. Basically you download their Digital Designer product, draw up the plans for you creation, and it keeps track of the blocks you need. Then you can place an order to their […]

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Tags: Business · General

Samsung Releases a 32GB Flash Hard Drive Replacement

March 21st, 2006 · No Comments

For the last year, I’ve been watching the capacities increase and the price drop on the current flash drive technology. As someone who has lost several hard drives over the years, I see this as the next big step in computer reliability. Both Fans and Hard Drives wear out, but with a Flash drive there […]

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Tags: Technology

Amazon’s S3 Web Service - Online Hard Drive

March 20th, 2006 · No Comments

It think we’ve hit a new milestone in the web’s development. Amazon.com has announced their Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service. We now have low cost, “in the cloud” data storage. What does this mean to me? Web developers across the global can now offer online applications without needing to build the costly data storage […]

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Tags: Technology · Web 2.0

63 Year Old Enigma Message Cracked

March 17th, 2006 · No Comments

The M4 Message Breaking Project has just announced breaking a 63 year old encrypted message from German Sub U-623 sent during the height to World War II in November 1942. They accomplished this via a distributed computing project similar to the SETI@home project. Using over 5,000 desktop computers the team was able to work through all of […]

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Tags: Cryptography · Technology

The Search for Noah’s Ark Continues…

March 13th, 2006 · No Comments

I found an interesting article on the “Mt. Ararat Anomaly.” Recent satellite images are providing the best yet views of this area and what may lie beneath the snow and ice. Is it Noah’s Ark? I’m not sure, but the images are very interesting…
http://www.space.com/news/060309_ark_update.html

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Tags: General · Space

Google Mars is Now Available

March 13th, 2006 · No Comments

Google Mars up and online. It looks like the resolution is similar to Google Moon. You can find the face on mars but the resolution isn’t tight enough to see it. All in all, it’s a pretty cool tool. Hopefully the imagery will be upgraded in the next 12 months with data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that […]

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Tags: Space

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

March 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Have you ever wanted to earn a little extra money on the web? Amazon.com has a solution for you. It’s called Mechanical Turk. It’s a system where people answer simply questions for pennies. The questions range from your favorite books to whether a picture is of a pizza parlor or not.
So I know you’re dying […]

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Tags: General · Web 2.0

Microsoft Origami Ultra-Mobile PC

March 9th, 2006 · No Comments

So Microsoft just announced a new mobile device at CBIT. The media has been leaking information for the last couple of weeks. Microsoft ran it’s own stealth marketing campaign on www.origamiproject.com.
It’s a cross between a Pocket PC, IPod, Win XP Desktop, Tablet PC, and Dish Network’s PocketDish product. The best thing about this announcement is […]

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Tags: Technology

Landscape Management Article on Blogging

March 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Just a quick note and link to my recent article on blogging in Landscape Management Magazine. Blogging is the newest way to connect with your employees.
InfoTech: Blogging

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Tags: Business · General · Web 2.0