Like Hal, I thought some of the responses to Jonathan’s digital divide entry were a little too, well, divisive.
My first reaction mirrored Hal’s: this isn’t a valid either-or. If I told you “I’m concentrating on my job for the next couple of months, so I’m going to have to stop being polite to others”, you’d call me, at best, crazy. Well, with over 30,000 employees, bigger things can happen.
Just wanted to take a minute and remember my friend and colleague Phil Rosenzweig. Phil was a long-time Sun employee and was killed five years ago today on one of the planes that left Boston.
In memory of Phil, someone else you know, or the whole event, please try to do something nice for someone today. Go a little out of your way to hold a door open, call someone you haven’t talked to for a while, or give someone you love a hug.
Lew Tucker – Java Pioneer and Creator of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange to be CTO of Radar Networks
Cool! Lew is a great friend and is always working on cool stuff. Lew’s one of those guys who is sometimes more in the background than maybe he should be given the level of contribution he’s always making. I’m sure that Nova and team are brewing up something interesting at Radar Networks, and Lew will be a huge asset to them.
Just wrapping up a great end-of-summer trip with the family. My wife and I and the kids spent a week in CO, joined by my folks for a few days in the middle.
Highlights:
Driving across Rocky Mountain National Park on Trail Ridge Road Street performers in Boulder Our stay at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs Great weather and fresh air Some fun things to do in the extended Denver area:
On a family trip to Colorado this month, we made a short stop at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder. They run a nice lunchtime tour there, and it was interesting to hear what they’re working on in the area of climate change and modeling. They bought a Connection Machine that I helped design way back in the Thinking Machines days, and I’ve always loved visiting there.
One of the things I hear consistently in my job is that data centers are running out of some combination of space, cooling and/or power. Gartner and others have published figures saying that over half are up against at least one of these limits. So a pretty obvious question is, where is Sun at?
One of our folks took the initiative and gathered up some data. Looking at 10 data centers around the world, here’s the numbers:
It was a crazy day. So much interest in the PG&E; rebate, that I haven’t had a chance to finish my blog post about it. As a result, Jonathan and Tim both beat me to the punch.
I won’t rehash the basic coverage here, but want to instead focus on a few points that weren’t as widely covered:
Kudos to PG&E.; We’ve built some great servers, but they’ve put their money where their mouth is and are giving customers $$ to save energy.
Had dinner tonight in LA with Max Schorr, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Good Magazine. I was coming off of a productive trip out west and he had just sent the first issue to press, so it was a lively upbeat conversation.
I was a fairly early subscriber and am looking forward to the first issue in a few weeks (I got a sneak preview and it looks like fun).
Picked a heckuva day to travel, but other than having to throw away my toothpaste and hand cream this morning, it hasn’t been too bad.
Tonight I decided that I better get to the airport early, since there’s lots of redeyes out of LA and the security lines can be long under normal circumstances. So I was a good traveller and get to the airport early so I wouldn’t have to worry about missing my flight.
Well, I picked a tough day to have to fly from SF to LA and then on to Boston. Lines were very long in the airport today, and in case you haven’t heard, there’s no liquids of any kind allowed through security or onto the planes.
Since I’m ending up at home I decided to ditch my toothpaste and lotion and carry everything on.
The line through security for United’s Premier customers was about 20 minutes, and I heard the regular line was quite a bit longer.