Off you go… into the purple yonder!

Maybe there’s more to my move to Massachusetts than I suspected. Check out this map comparing the GDP of US states with various countries around the world.

It’s clearly true. I think I might have to get one of these stickers:

This article is a very good read about power supply efficiency and what Google is trying to do to improve the quality of the average PC power supply. More power to them!
I’ve long wondered why we don’t have a centralized source of 12V or so in the average home. Electronics generally don’t require high voltage, [...]

So Dell now has 32GB solid state disks as an option on the Latitude D420 and the Latitude ATG. They’re still a bit pricey (almost $500 extra) and not very big, but that will change soon. I wonder what percentage of the PC market will be using solid state disks in a year or two…

This article on the Register’s development site is pretty interesting. To be honest I don’t really understand the whole web 2.0 hype - for me Ajax is just a tool to make web-based interfaces more user friendly. A future of distributed networked objects sure sounds cool though!

Google is installing 1.6 megawatts of solar panels at their Mountain View campus.
Awesome.

Amazon Web Services is offering two relatively new services: ubiquitous storage via S3 and ‘elastic’ computing via EC2. The Cardbox folks have an in-depth analysis of S3 online, and Smugmug uses an S3 backend.This is very interesting. If it wasn’t for all the problems with the S3 contract, I would consider using this.
Now; that being [...]

I received this e-mail today:
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Dear customer!
Due to high fraud activity we constantly increasing security level both for
online banking and card transactions. In order to update our records you are
required to call MBNA Card Service number at 1-800-976-5713 and update
information on your MBNA card.
This is free of charge and would not affect any transactions [...]

I’ve been greatly enjoying my 770 this summer. It’s the perfect tool to debug (wifi) networking issues in a big building with wifi - no more need to lug a bulky laptop around. Awesome.
The other night I was visiting a friend in Cambridgeport and needed to look something up online, quickly. I opened up my [...]

So I’ve ordered parts for a new server, and half of them got here today. It’ll be a nice machine - Tyan S2881-based, Opteron 265, 2GB of ECC ram, 2x 74GB WD Raptors and 2x 320GB Seagate drives.
And if I can get one last thing solved, it’s going to be running LinuxBIOS. All I need [...]