links for 2007-11-27
By Bob Plankers on Nov 27, 2007 in del.icio.us
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I love Yogi Berra quotes, and Copyblogger turns them into good lessons about writing.
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“Modern Li-ion batteries love to be charged often. They don’t like being fully discharged. This is completely opposite from older style batteries.” - I’m going to have to change my ways.
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Good advice on demoing software, including room setup (the note about the height of the ceiling is important).
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It is hard to justify storage virtualization when the prices for it are so high, and with VMware making it irrelevant.
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Yes, even with the Tor network you shouldn’t assume anything.
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“Respect the Narrative Arc. Every good story has a beginning, middle and end. The beginning promises the audience something, the middle threatens to take that promise away, and the end pays off on the promise.”
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“The beginner’s mind, or the child’s mind, is really just about seeing things as they are.” - I see myself losing my beginner’s mind about a lot of things, and I wonder how I can get that back.
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Again, you get what you pay for. This is one of the things that scares me about massive organizational outsourcing to free services.
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Not really how to find or fix anything, but a list of things you should think about with regard to virtualization security.
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Finally, a decent & free defragmenter for Windows.
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Heh.
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Managers must be wide, techs must be deep. Learning this is tricky. Doing it is even harder.
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Awesome photo on the one night per year they use the original five-wick oil lamp and Fresnel lens.
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A herd of water buffalo vs. a pride of lions vs. two crocodiles. Long but cool, a buffalo throws a lion into the air at some point.
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My friend Chuck writing about what happened to his company when a customer of his hired all his developers away from him.
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I am trying to figure out how I can make my home more energy efficient, and with a siding project next year I think I am going to take the opportunity to make my south-facing exterior wall a thermal storage wall.
1 Comment(s)
By Chuck on Nov 27, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the link to my article Bob! Hope you are well!