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6November2012

Why is God in Quotes?

Posted by Brent under: Nothing Special.

You make the choice "God" makes the change  This is a church, so why is God in quotes?!?!

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4November2012

The Oxymoron Exists

Posted by Brent under: Nothing Special.

I Googled for the phrase “mournful banjo” and came up with pages of results. Mournful banjo? All the banjo music I’ve ever heard has been upbeat and happy. I actually listened to a couple of tracks that claimed to be mournful, but they didn’t seem that way to me. What say you?

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23September2012

Handicapped Spots

Posted by Brent under: Nothing Special.

Ever notice how the handicapped parking spots are the ones closest to the front door of a business, but the handicapped bathroom stalls are the ones farthest from the bathroom door? What’s up with that?

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18September2012

New Amazon Kindle Book

Posted by Brent under: Nothing Special.

See the link to the right. I’ve published a new Kindle e-book on “How To Be a Web Designer.” Hope you all enjoy.

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21August2012

Glacier, as in ‘slow as..’?

Posted by Brent under: Nothing Special.

Today Amazon Web Services (aws) introduced a new archiving solution: Glacier. It’s for archiving data and has a very, very low cost of only one cent per gigabyte per month. Amazon says it’s for archiving and backup data. On the surface, it looks good: very few limits, handles huge data, good API, very low cost. But I’d never use it for backup. Why? The restore time. Amazon says once you request retrieval, it may take 3.5 to 4.5 hours to get your data staged to be ready for retrieval. A wise SysAdmin friend of mine once said “The most critical part of backup is recovery time. After that, almost nothing else matters in terms of speed.” He’s right. When a system’s down and dead, the amount of time it takes to recover data from a backup is the main thing, the ONLY thing. I just can’t see waiting 4 hours after a crash to get you data ready to be downloaded as a viable backup strategy for any online business.

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7August2012

So How Do I Get a Gig Like This?

Posted by Brent under: Nothing Special.

The cover of the latest Costco Magazine has a photo of a man captioned “Education provocateur Sir Ken Robinson” A friend’s card says “Brand Futurist”, somebody on LinkedIn the other day was asking about the title “maven.” So: provocateur, futurist, maven, how do I get a gig like this? I know these people just make up these titles. What odd titles have you come across, and what would be yours?

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