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Shandyking wrote up a great step-by-step process to get yourself set up with your own blog on your own domain in about 10 minutes. While I already had the domain, the steps he details are pretty much how I set mine up… and it really is easy.
Why would you want to set up your own blog instead of using a service like Blogger or Wordpress.com? In a word - control. No ads unless *you’re* the one making the money. Be able to customize in all kinds of ways. Have a URL that *you* own, and not someone else.
If you’d like to set up a blog, I highly recommend popping over to Shandyking’s blog setup tutorial.
October 6th, 2006
InformationWeek is reporting that AMD’s VP of manufacturing has stated that AMD will be “fully positioned to service one-third of the market by 2008″. Hector Ruiz, AMD CEO, highlighted further the company’s plans to push to quad-core CPUs and high-performance, low-power CPUs for the notebook sector.
With Dell joining the AMD bandwagon, the future does appear to be bright for the former also-ran who’s becoming a driving force in processor technology.
June 5th, 2006
As a shareholder, I’m a little confused as to what’s going on over at HP. They’ve recently decided to cut back on telecommuting, giving employees the option to come to the office or find other employment.
As a former HP employee, who worked for their Managed Services division at a customer site, I felt a terrible disconnect from HP and whatever culture there may have been at the offices. Disconnected from everything from HR to company events and watercooler talk. Unaware what resources from the rest of the company I could get involved in a work-related problem. So I can certainly see the merits of getting people together.
But I also know that within HP, a lot of what I did see was that some of the poorer performing people were being kept while the good people were leaving either by choice or by mandated cuts. While I think that the slackers are more likely to be the ones quitting instead of coming into the office, I also fear that some of the better people who work well within this arrangement will decide it’s simply not worth it for them.
My experiences were shaded by the presence of Carly Fiorina and her management culture, I’m sure… and I’m not sure if Mark Hurd is going too far to “let’s get more like IBM” or if he’s all about cutting out the bullshit and getting things back on track.
I’d like to see HP come back from where it was, beat Dell in the server market, and recover from the Itanium disaster… despite the disconnect I had with the corporation during my 4 years there, I believe that they’ve got the ability to restore prestige and reinvigorate the IT industry. I just hope this change is part of that, and I’m not so sure.
June 4th, 2006
Youtube’s down, with the cryptic message “ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US.”
Anyone know what’s up?
Update:
Youtube down again for scheduled maintenance beginning 9PM PDT on 22 June.
June 2nd, 2006
AMD’s introducing a marketing initiative branded as Live! which incorporates their Windows Media Center-centric offerings. Microsoft recently introduced live.com, and branded some of their services under the name Windows Live, Windows Local Live, etc.
Interestingly, after Microsoft came up with the Windows XP name, AMD introduced the Athlon XP.
AMD’s Live! coincidentally(?) rhymes with Intel’s media-centric offering VIIV, as well — though it’s not obvious how the hell to pronounce that unless you’re told.
Back in the 486 days, AMD was the copycat, trailing Intel by copying (though improving upon) Intel’s architecture. I’d thought that they had taken the initiative, stepping out of the shadows. Personally, I’m disappointed by this announcement.
May 31st, 2006
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