Just like every other technology focused person on the planet, I’ve taken time to ponder Google’s immense success. I’ve predicted in the past that their rapid growth in numbers of employees would catch up with them. It’s hard to tell on the outside if Google’s size is having much effect, although they have shown some [...]

I’m currently using Thrift at work.  It’s a convenient way to shuttle data across different services and to invoke remote procedure calls.  I like it because of how lightweight it is, so I don’t have to wrestle with code for a kitchen when all I need is a faucet. The one downside to Thrift at [...]

I’d like to start out by apologizing for my last post.  My previous post was below my standards.  It was simply a quote with a small blurb that provided no worth while insight.  I did nothing more than add to the echo chamber of the Internet and that isn’t what I’m trying to do.  At [...]

Amazon sells most Kindle books for $9.99 or less. Publishers say that they generally sell electronic books to Amazon for the same price as physical books, or about 45 percent to 50 percent of the cover price. For a hardcover best seller like Scott McClellan’s “What Happened,” the former press secretary’s account of his years [...]

I enjoy Twitter and I think I’m addicted to Google Reader.  It’s become a game for me to make sure that I get the number showing my unread stories down to zero. Both make it very easy to follow someone, and once you do, if you’re like me, you end up following them forever just [...]