by Robin Harris | Friday, January 12, 2007 | Clusters, Off-Topic |
One of my favorite storage bloggers is NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz. He’s thoughtful, wry and, most important, he doesn’t spend much time pimping NetApp. I particularly enjoyed his recent post about lawyers and the legal system Lawyers Aren’t...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 8, 2007 | Off-Topic |
Perusing the Apple website a few days ago, I came across this story, Macs Join the Masai Tribe. Patrick O’Sullivan, a retired tech executive, decided to support a school in Kenya’s Masai country. The story quotes O’Sullivan after the school room was...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 15, 2006 | Off-Topic |
A hard disk crash isn’t the worst that can happen Al Shugart, an engineer on the first commercial disk drive (see Happy Birthday, Rotating Rust!) and later founder of Shugart Associates, a leading floppy drive maker, and still later, disk titan Seagate, died...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 30, 2006 | Off-Topic |
You work hard on a project for years and then marketing takes over. The underwhelming market response to the baby you sweated over is a bummer. Plus you may not get to do it again because “you” failed. How is an engineer to know if their marketing is going...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 23, 2006 | Off-Topic |
StorageMojo.com will be relaxing until Monday, November 27. In the meantime I point serious storageheads at a wonderful article in the November 20 issue of the New Yorker. As a warmup, memorize the Bible Titled Homer in India, the oral epics of Rajasthan (not...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 17, 2006 | Off-Topic |
Advocates of all stripes suffer from a poor reputation. Politicians, lawyers, marketers all grapple with the advocate’s problem: winning is the measure of success. How one wins will usually be forgotten, but the hairsplitting and subtleties of the advocate leave...
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