Author: Dr Wingnut
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Check your calendar in November 2007
Dana Gross, chief marketing officer, M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd., Fremont, CA predicts: "Expect a terabyte of data storage in a cellular phone by 2007. This will be achieved through continued advancements in flash silicon and multilevel cell technology."Sounds pretty nice, but I still don’t have a flying car! I think I will follow-up in…
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How not to recover
The Twelve Steps of How Not to RecoverThese are the steps we took, which are suggested as a Program of Misery:We admitted we were powerless over nothing, that we could manage our lives perfectly, and those of anyone who would allow us to.We came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves, and the…
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Golden Rules for Living
If you open it, close it.If you turn it on, turn it off.If you unlock it, lock it up.If you break it, admit it.If you can’t fix it, call in someone who can.If you borrow it, return it.If you value it, take care of it.If you make a mess, clean it up.If you move it,…
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One bitten twice shy?
The following item appeared in my email this morning in the InformationWeek Daily email broadcast:"If I go out now and hit a ball off of the fairway in any fashion or form, I will not go after it." Roy Williamson, who was bitten twice by a rattlesnake when he tried to retrieve his ball from…
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Five Nines
The original Bell Telephone system was required to provide 99.999% (or five nines of) relability. This level of reliablilty equals 5 minutes of downtime per year. In contrast to 97% reliability which is equivalent to 263 hours of downtime per year.
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Redneck Neighbor
In case you’re wondering, this Web page is about my next-door neighbors. Since my neighbors have been driving me crazy and no amount of civilized reasoning and/or negotiations have worked – I have decided to dedicate a small corner of cyber-space to them.My family and friends are constantly asking me to tell them the “latest”…