Phil801 - Geek Blog

Over the weekend I accomplished or got started on a couple projects that have been pililng up for a few umm, years. 
First, I dug up my old website from before I was really aware of blogging.  I used to handcode my personal website, journaling things we were doing, recording my thoughts and posting things I […]

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Just a quick post because there are a few things going on this morning that are interesting. 

First, Microsoft released MS Mesh last night.  I’m looking forward to learning more about it and hopefully getting in the beta soon.  Mesh is an Application/Document/Device Synch system (and lots more) that has the potential to make multi-device computing […]

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 There are two things that have prevented me from using Amazon’s Web Services in the technology I’ve been building - and Amazon just announced the solution for one of them!  Jeff Barr just announced on the AWS blog that they are going to be releasing persistent storage within EC2 which is their computing cloud.  Why is […]

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Maybe it’s because the site has evolved from being a college yearbook type application to being the most over-hyped website of the year.  Or maybe it’s the way it is because that’s exactly how Zuckerberg  wants it.  Whatever the reason, Facebook has a lot of suck - and they keep rolling more of it out.
I’m not […]

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There is one and ONLY one type of person qualifed to schlep advice about being an entrepreneur and that is someone who has:

 Actually built a company by creating a product or service that brings real value to real people (hint: that’s not a facebook app or a mashup) a real product or service is something […]

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I finally made the time (over the course of about two weeks) to move my blog to a different host.  The old host was slow, too expensive and limiting but everything was there and it was easier not to mess with it. 
Now that I’ve moved everything, I think it’s time I start thinking about blogging […]

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