Not a web savvy interactive designer? Not everyone has the time, skill, and patience to create and maintain their own personal website. Enter the ‘Personal Landing Page’ a.k.a. online business card. These sites are designed to help even the technically deficient user create a simple, informative online information booth for the public. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the past few months I’ve been evaluating the possibility of establishing a second point of presence outside of our home Dallas market. I am pleased to announce that we are very close to signing the agreement with a facility in the Chicago area. The location is downtown, close to the financial district for low latency, and includes all the redundancies and capabilities of our primary Dallas facility.
This location will service as a secondary location and DR (Disaster Recovery) site to our customers wishing to have geographic disparity of their data, for those who wish to maintain off site backups, and for customers interested in moving content closer to users in the Northeast for increased performance. I’ll be in Chicago a few times over the next few weeks for both personal and work reasons, and look forward to getting to know the city and their local cuisine.
The New 100 Dollar Bill
Hip Hop artists rejoice, Benjamin will still be the face of the new 100 dollar bill. The new design features some important advanced technology used to prevent counterfeiting called 3-D Security. Though I don’t suspect you’ll need 3-D glasses, the images on the new 100 dollar bill will move and shift as you tilt the bill itself.
Additional security features include: color changing images, inclusion of phrases from the Declaration of Independence, a vignette showing of Independence Hall, font size changes, and some image replacements.
Keep an eye out for the changes. Set to be issued in February 10, 2011, I probably won’t see any new 100 dollar bills in my possession for quite a while.
If you’ve lived in a bear cave with the Hip Hop Kids this past week, you might’ve missed the leaked announcement of the next-gen iPhone.
Gizmodo.com, a CNN for geeks, enthralled the Apple fanboy nation with the latest edition of the highly coveted iPhone series yesterday. Reportedly lost at a bar in Redwood City, Gizmodo broke coverage doing what they do best, a gadget review. Read the rest of this entry »
Gizmodo.com wrote up a pretty informative post on how data dies and how it can be saved. Digital rot, as they explain it, is the death of either hardware, network, or format. Their “Pulling the Plug” section struck a particular chord with me. Anyone remember Seeqpod.com, the pre-Grooveshark streaming music service that switched gears over a year ago? I had over 65 playlists in there. Gone…all gone…
