by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Yesterday I took a seven mile out-and-back hike along the Chuckwagon Trail. This is an area I want to explore more. It didn’t look like a good day for pictures, so I didn’t take the Canon EOS-M. But the smoke from a couple of burns on the Rim cleared and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 18, 2016 | Off-Topic |
Tomorrow the top StorageMojo superforecasting analysts are saddling up for the long ride to the glittering runways of Las Vegas. The target: NAB 2016. As much as I like CES, NAB is my favorite mighty tradeshow. It is toy show for people with very large budgets –...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
If you’ve been wondering why the dearth of hike blogging the last few months, wonder no more: I wasn’t hiking. A nasty bug made its way through Arizona and I caught it, thought I shook it, went to CES, and relapsed, big time. So I’ve been taking it...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 11, 2016 | Off-Topic |
I’ve been a fan of RRAM – resistive random access memory – for years. It is much superior to NAND flash as a storage medium, except for cost, density and industry production capacity. Hey, you can’t have everything! But Crossbar announced today...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 11, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Information Management, Off-Topic |
Persistent digital storage is an absolute requirement for a persisting digital civilization – and I remain concerned that with the exception of M-disc we don’t have digital media with a 500 year life. But I also take a broader view of storage, including...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 18, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Dial-a-climate People are often surprised to learn that it snows in Arizona. While much of state is low Sonoran desert – it rarely gets below freezing in Phoenix – altitude is the primary determinant of climate in Arizona. That’s why it can be...
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