We started with some Sun machines and attached disk arrays as our initial storage plan.  Then we moved to Network Appliance Filers.  From there we developed our own cluster of commodity storage devices and then we switched to an early stage storage provider called Scale8.  Scale8 provided a caching server that had access to it’s data center storage.  The caching device could be mounted like a local drive and essentially provided a limitless file system.  It was early days for them and there were bugs, but I loved the solution.  Once Mongo was bought by Microsoft, we championed the service internally and I think one other MSN team used them briefly, but Scale8 ultimately went out of business.  They were probably a year or two too early, didn’t hunker down quite far enough during the dotcom bust and probably had other things holding them back that wasn’t apparent from the outside.  But.  They were very early in the cloud storage space.  They had a good and improving product.  They just didn’t have the timing.

My neighbor Sandy pointed out to me that guys do a lot less staying in touch with old friends.  It’s certainly true for me.  However, I’m going to work on changing that by picking up the phone more often just to say hello.

Some theories say that there is less food in your body if you workout before eating in the morning, so you’ll burn more fat.  Other theories claim that working out when your body doesn’t have enough food trains it to hold onto your fat stores.  There is very little information about building muscle except that some theories say that morning cardio workouts can burn muscle since your body wants to maintain a fat store.

For me, I am definitely stronger and more loose in the evenings, but I feel like I have more energy and go to sleep easier when I work out in the morning.

I have to remind Robin of when she wrote this hub on potty training a toddler.

Back in April I took a month off of drinking, cut my calories back and did Bikram Yoga and lost 15 lbs.  I lost the next 10 lbs from doing P90X for six weeks.  Still have seven weeks to go on P90X.  I made a hub on P90X equipment if you’re interested in learning about getting started.  I’ll do a few more P90X hubs over the next seven weeks, but no, I won’t be posting before and after pictures.

It’s been several months, maybe a year since I’ve played hoops.  Tonight Frank and I are hitting the gym.  I wonder if I can still dunk.  We’ll see.

On a recent flight, I tried streaming a netflix on demand movie instead of paying for a movie from the inflight system. The Gogo wifi on my Virgin America flight didn’t have the bandwith to stream the movie well, but as bandwidth inflight improves, on demand movies from the airline will dramatically decrease. To make up for these lost revenues, locations that offer wifi will have to earn more from wifi than they do today.