Archive for April, 2009

jenerek

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

my wife maintains a blog with random musings of our life and other things that she finds interesting.  its cool to have a place for our family to keep up with what is going on in our lives.

i recently helped her re-do the header of the site.  if your interested go check it out…

http://jenerek.com

cool sprint commercial

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

happen to catch this commercial in my reader today.  very cool and is definitely showing that sprint is thinking forward.  wimax is going to be a big deal, but will the other cell phone giants be able to come up with something a little better soon enough to rain on sprint’s gigantic investment in wimax?

either way i am excited that soon i will be able to dump my lame wired connection for a super fast wireless connection, completely untethering my house!

google’s data center

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

one of google’s many secrets has always been their data center and server infrastructure.  how do they deliver such amazing performance from their computing infrastructure so efficiently?

well, for the first time google has opened their data center doors and given the public a look at some of their unique configurations that make it possible for google to deliver that .3 second search query.

having worked in a data center for a brief period of time i have learned a few of the basics regarding data center design, flow, and principle and the things google are doing are very innovative and pretty cool for a geek like me.

check out some of the details here.

then watch this video below that takes a dive into a cheap google server (no frills here…the coolness is in the lack of frills!):

holy cow!

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

its april and i haven’t posted since the new year…sorry i suck. i’ll try to get better…even though no one reads this anyways :(

anyways, check out the gmail april fools joke:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html