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Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on November 30, 2009
... source alternative would have been created. I have already described [...] Read More Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to br...
Seen that? - Seen that? - Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on November 20, 2009
... Seen that? - Columns versus Rows at Googlestack Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to bring the ...
Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on November 2, 2009
... source alternative would have been created. I have already described [...] Read More Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to br...
Seen that? - $100 Hamburger
in The Aviation Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...ng Washington DC Airspace at The Aviation Weblog In a column on ABCNews.com, expert aviation analyst John J. Nance gives a more measured response to the i...
Obama and Google: a love story
in Sox First, on October 27, 2009
...ealthy about this relationship, for now. But as Google's power grows, something I wrote about in my column here , it will need to be watched....
Seen that? - Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on October 22, 2009
... Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of r...
Kudos to Kentucky: the Derby and the Concours
in Classical Drives, on October 10, 2009
... and my mentor." Nigel enclosed a photo of a1936 Delahaye Coupe that he featured in his newspaper column a few years ago concerning an 83-year-old German now living in Surrey, B.C., who was convinced ...
Seen that? -
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 8, 2009
... at The Personal Finance Weblog In this Yahoo Finance column, Ken Dychtwald discusses laying the foundation for a secure financial future. He's addres...
Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on October 3, 2009
... source alternative would have been created. I have already described [...] Read More Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to br...
Seen that? - Simplicity in consulting
in Tech Intelligence, on October 2, 2009
...on Job at HackITLinux When scheduling a cron job each column indicates a different time period: minute hour [Day of Month] [Month] [Day of Week] Thus, to...
Unicom says to sell iPhones in China from October
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-30
• Unicom says to sell iPhones in China from October
• Nokia Acquires Dopplr
• WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner; Full Text of Guidelines
• Square Enix Japan To Cut 200 to 300 Jobs
• Zoho Projects : All Task Lists View and Few Enhancements
• AP Stylebook iP...
Do Venture Capitalists Foster Innovation, or Just Pay For It?
in TJ's Weblog, on September 28, 2009
...'s (NVCA) is taking too much credit for the success for American business, according to a guest column he did for TechCrunch . I'm amused that the NVCA claims credit for creating 12 million j...
Only 5% will pay for online content
in Sox First, on September 23, 2009
...to be repackaged with a lot of value-added stuff. I have also explained why it won't work in my column here . Put simply, people won't pay for a commodity like news when they can get free on ...
Car Guy Hits Eighty (... and that's not MPH)
in Classical Drives, on September 2, 2009
...r magazine, announced the first live telecast of a motor race, wrote the first syndicated newspaper column featuring auto news and test drives, was first to broadcast live the 12-hour race from Sebrin...
Immigration Reform Faces Five Problems
in Global Mobility Report, on August 31, 2009
I don't often read the editorial page of USA Today , but they recently had an insightful commentary on the problems that face immigration reform in Congress. They list five specific problems.
The problems are simple. Too many of the members of Congress have inflexible, all-or-nothing positions...
Is the housing bust over?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 30, 2009
...using recovery is now in progress is University of Chicago economics professor Casey Mulligan. In a column printed in the New York Times, Mulligan says that all the latest reports on housing starts, h...
Pacific islands' climate change litigation threat
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
...sequences, they should think again. For a start, this could have legal ramifications. In a recent column , I said the flooding of islands could result in class actions against companies. In that col...
Google's Android To Invade Homes
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-26
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Can Twitter and Facebook make money?
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
...company would mine and translate those analytics for companies, for a fee." As I wrote in my column , social networking sites will struggle to make a profit which raises the question whether th...
Criticism starts to catch up to AppEngine
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2009
...k that is a good thing, despite the spirited defense that Clint Boulton mounts in his Googlewatch column over at eWeek. My impression the last time around was that Google was reaping the benefits of...
Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009
...ry is now experiencing.
You can see an example of this at The Business Insider's Clusterstock column written by John Carney. Carney targets Sonia Sotomayor, Pres. Barack Obama's nominee for...
Will the Volt save GM?
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
...d of knee jerk response and hubris that forced GM into bankruptcy. It's a point I examine in my column here . Still, if there is anything that will guarantee sales of the Volt it's one thing...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...ive 18.7% in 20 US cities. That does not sound like a market that's bottoming. As the the Lex column in the Financial Times notes, people are just kidding themselves if they think this will blo...
Vancouver All British Show Highlight No. 4: Sunbeam Alpine Mk 1
in Classical Drives, on May 25, 2009
... stunning performance, even though it has the lines of a sports car; a bench-type seat and steering column-mounted gear lever is anything but sporting, while the running gear and suspension are based ...
Sony Has Ebook Announcement Too - Kindle DX doesn't Care
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 7, 2009
Amazon isn't the only one making announcements regarding E-Book Readers today. Sony has rolled out a little product upgrade of their own; but nobody cares. Today was all about the Kindle DX - the new BIG boy on the block. To be fair, I thought I would cover both E-Reader announcements for y...
Free “Digital Camera World” And Other eBooks
in Digital Shot, on May 4, 2009
...many of the topics you are interested in other than photography; check out the headings in the left column.
Now there are some small downsides such as slow downloads. They have a fix for that though...
HP拟1亿美元新建科罗拉多州数据中心
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-30
• 惠普拟1亿美元新建科罗拉多州数据中心
• Inside Steve Jobs' tear-down mansion
• Apple's Mark Papermaster finally ready for work
• Eric Schmidt on Google's New Plan for the News
• Public Booted from DVD Copying Trial Over 'Secret' CSS Code
• Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-Book Application ...
Is the US becoming like Russia?
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...s over the past two decades in their ability to measure and manage risks." Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf says it's not that bad. Corruption for one thing isn't as rampant as it...
An Augusta Website Rant
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 8, 2009
... Courtesy: daylife.com
I haven't gone into "rant" mode in this column for some time.
But nothing gets me ranting faster than seeing technology used to block the free flow of conten...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...sets and thus avoid those nasty impairment charges. As John Mason maintains in his Seeking Alpha column, it's an April Fools joke that has come one day late and it's a gift to the banks. T...
Newspaper and auto industry self-destruction.
in Sox First, on April 1, 2009
...s time to look at the similarities between the newspaper and auto industries. As I point out in my column here , business schools in 20 years times will hold up the two sectors as examples of indus...
Middlespot: Visual Searching
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 27, 2009
...enjoyable experience.
The format is simple. Middlespot pulls up a search response that gives you a column on the left of website names with short descriptions. About 70% of their page is a grid of si...
Squeezing accounting independence
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
...If that happens, accounting will be in even more trouble than it is now. I look at that issue in my column here ....
Bank nationalisation on its way
in Sox First, on March 6, 2009
...on words. The banks will have to be taken over to restore them back to health. As Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf says, "nationalisation" is just a synonym for restructuring. And wh...
Stimulus Hype: Sorting Out Keynes (Part III)
in Bizinformer, on February 15, 2009
...economic theory. Will it work? Time will tell.
Bruce Bartlett (not a Bush fan), had an excellent column in Forbes late last month on Keynes, the Depression, and the modern critique of Keynesian eco...
Thrift chic
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
... might also open up new wealth opportunities. I look at this trend of "thrift chic" in my column here .
...
Taking Hypertable 0.9.2.1 for a ride.
in Googlestack, on February 4, 2009
...S GROUP text (article));
The above command will create a table called wikipedia with just two column families:
title - containing the title of the article
article - containing the page conte...
The Truth About Classic Car Auctions
in Classical Drives, on February 2, 2009
...ks ago that there would be more sellers than buyers. Seems I was right about that one.
Nigel's column containing these quotes came from his newspaper column for the Vancouver Province . He is th...
Toms Steps Up
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 19, 2009
Courtesy: Golf.com
There's a good story over at PGATour.com written by John Maginnes.
It deals with the current economic situation (or, as I call it, depression) that is settling in upon all of us.
Tour veteran David Toms says simply it's time for the players to step up and hel...
Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on January 11, 2009
... In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theore...
Creative Destruction? This Recessions is Partly the Change of an Era...
in TJ's Weblog, on December 26, 2008
...d and read by roughly 5,000 people today. Compare that to what it takes to get the Tom Friedman column 'Time To Reboot America' which is sitting in front of me in the International Herald ...
Outline of The Google Software Stack
in Googlestack, on December 11, 2008
...n GFS please refer to: The Google File System paper.
BigTable
The BigTable is a distributed column oriented data store which might be thought of as a database, but not a relational one. Th...
Security: on or off the radar right now?
in The CIO Weblog, on November 20, 2008
... superior, qualitatively I feel as though the advances made by the industry and listed in the Saved column represent considerable advances over the forces of darkness. We've seen any number of sec...
The perverse meltdown
in Sox First, on November 1, 2008
...stic. The downturn has been created by perverse systems in organizations. I explain all that in my column here ....
Greenspan's legacy
in Sox First, on October 26, 2008
In his book The Age of Turbulence , former Fed chief Alan Greenspan proclaimed that subprime was a good thing for America. "The gains were especially dramatic among Hispanics and blacks, as increasing affluence as well as government encouragement of subprime mortgage programs enabled many ...
Black blogs from cell
in Sox First, on October 24, 2008
Jailed for more than six years for Fraud, Conrad Black is "working", even if it's for gratis, for Tina Brown's web venture The Daily Beast . The disgraced businessman has taken to giving John McCain advice ("President Bush did his best to manage the financial crisis in...
Financial meltdown and climate change
in Sox First, on October 18, 2008
... both reflect the dominance of short-term thinking. The similarity is creepy. I look at that in my column here ....
Boomers and the baby bust
in Sox First, on October 4, 2008
...od also coincides with the malaise of the Japanese economy. I look at these important issues in my column here .
...
Brown Rice Compound, Bioactive Against Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 25, 2008
...al University, and FANCL Research Institute at the FANCL Corporation in Yokohama used by silica gel column chromatography, mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques.
This...
Outsourcing and Insourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 25, 2008
... Aside from writing outsourcing columns and providing legal services to the outsourcing community, I am a competitive fencer (as is most of my family). Why is this relevant to a column regarding ou...
SEC's shortcomings
in Sox First, on September 20, 2008
The Securities and Exchange Commission and regulators around the world have cracked down on short selling. Ostensibly, it's all designed to put a bit more transparency into the market. On one hand, that makes sense because the events of the last few days have shown that the market needs co...
Game Informer Hates Nintendo, Pretends it is out of Respect
in House of Nintendo, on September 19, 2008
....
This month, editor Andy McNamara decided to defend himself and his magazine in his editor's column. Pompously titled "Nobody's Perfect," Andy says that the dissing of the Big N i...
Adobe Reports Strong Q3 Financial Results
in Wangtam, on 2008-09-18
• Adobe Reports Strong Q3 Financial Results
• Google to buy Valve
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Lehman Brothers: the canary in the coal mine
in Sox First, on September 10, 2008
...he coal mine. Lehman won't got the way of Bear Stearns, says the Financial Times' Lex column but the worries will continue. "Standard & Poor's on Tuesday heaped on more pre...
Naming rooms
in WebKinzBlog, on September 5, 2008
...n't take.
Bad news -> way less flexibility in naming rooms. You now have to select from two columns the name of your room.
Column 1 has pet names or 'the'
Column 2 has a large list...
The future of newspapers
in Sox First, on September 6, 2008
...ine growth. Instead, the focus needs to be on the top line, revenue growth. I make that point in my column here ....
Cutdown Day News
in End Zone Buzz, on August 30, 2008
© Chris Breeze News and notes from the NFL.
- Chad Johnson is now legally Chad Ocho Cinco , and the NFL is none too pleased. (ESPN.com)
- Cornerback Charles Tillman of the Bears revealed that his baby daughter needed a heart transplant in late July, which is why he was not at some practice...
Barbara Samuel: The Romance of Travel
in The Flyaway Weblog, on August 25, 2008
... is a romance writer, who is based in (YAY!) Colorado. However, her website also features a travel column.
As I said earlier, it takes a special type of writer to bring the travel experience to lif...
Wedding Dress Trend 2009: Sleek
in White Lace Wedding, on August 21, 2008
...y Cinderella-type gown since you were eight years-old and you definitely can. But if you like slim, column gowns, they're what's news for next year.
Since color is also a 2009 trend , I li...
Outsourcing for Small Businesses
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 17, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Geoffrey Hammond
In today's Baltimore Sun , Stephen Rosenstein details some of the benefits of outsourcing for small businesses. These benefits can help small businesses get ahead - and stay ahead - of their competition.
Mr. Rosenstein is careful to wa...
Golf And Other Weird Stuff In Las Vegas
in Play Las Vegas, on August 7, 2008
Here's the latest in oddities from Las Vegas, the city where you can find anything and everything.
Now, bear in mind that when I say 'The latest oddities" I'm referring to the latest ones I came across, which means that they may have occurred any number of years ago.
Still, fo...
1950 Nash Ambassador: Beauty by the Bay
in Classical Drives, on August 4, 2008
...resses... and they're still in the trunk! Inside, a "Uniscope" sits atop the steering column: a round pod containing speedometer , fuel gauge, and oil and temperature gauges.
One...
Spinal Cord Stem Cells Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 29, 2008
... Institute found that neural stem cells in the adult spinal cord are limited to a layer of cube- or column-shaped, cilia-covered cells called ependymal cells. These cells make up the thin membrane lin...
Fair value countdown
in Sox First, on July 9, 2008
...the same ones that made a fortune out of it when the market was booming. I look at that issue in my column here . In theory, fair value creates more transparency and accountability, and serves as a ...
There's worse ahead - central bankers
in Sox First, on July 2, 2008
...says have had "calamitous side-effects". Earlier this year, I examined this problem in my column here . It also warns about the high debt burden on households, tighter credit conditions an...
The free economy
in Sox First, on June 30, 2008
...nomics". This is a growth phenomenon and could point to the future. I examine this trend in my column here ....
Seven tips for bootstrappers
in BootStrapMe, on June 25, 2008
... Schrage
Business coach Robert Moment makes these observations about bootstrapping in a guest column for the Carolina Newswire:
Bootstrapping involves using your imagination, know-how, skills,...
RealPlayer 11.0 build 876
in Wangtam, on 2008-06-13
... remembered
• Icons shown for favorites and recent items
• Clip Info window has "Show File" button for local files
• Clip Info window displays four-character codec identifiers
• Find enabled...
Online Dating and Body Type
in The Dating Weblog, on June 9, 2008
... have to get over this.
There's an interesting article from the Baltimore Sun's Dating Column that reinforced this issue. A woman tries to be honest by listing her body type and gets ab...
