iTunes has been the top of the heap when it comes to online music and video sales with and estimated run rate of 500 millions songs annually. Songs currently cost $0.99 each. Most TV episodes are $1.99 (although NBC has recently requested a rate increase that has caused a falling our of sorts between the [...]

I have become a personal disaster recovery zealot. I’m like the former smoker railing against smokers - so I’ll try not to preach too much.
When I used Windows on all of my machines, I did the occasional random image backup. To be honest, these occurred about once every 3 to 6 months. Not good. When [...]

Back in the 1990’s there was this idea of “network computers” - computers that did nothing without their connection to the network. The idea fizzled. Now we are on the verge of the “web computer”. Same idea but with better timing.
The emergence of Amazon S2 & AWS , Force.com, Facebook, and Google Apps & [...]

At MacWorld 2007, Steve Jobs announced “Time Machine” which heralding in an easy to use, consumer focused solution for backing up your computer Mac with Leopard. However, it was not for everyone. It assumed the backup device - a USB connected hard drive was always plugged in which is fine for a desktop computer but [...]

Today, Sun announced its intent to acquire MySQL AB. This is a very interested announcement for a number of reasons.
I’ve been curious when MySQL would be acquired. I have read a number of accounts that it would not happen and MySQL AB would rather go public. I bought most of the arguments in favor of [...]

I’m curious, independent of the economic situation, for the gifts you are planning, how will you go about the process ? Will you mostly be giving …

hand made gifts
shop at departments stores and malls
buy direct from on-line stores
Amazon
eBay
Woot

I won’t have too many hand crafted gifts this season but I will be making a few. Currently [...]