Cloud Computing: More Like Costco, Less Like Oxygen

The hype around the cloud computing is getting tiresome.
The recent highly-visible downtime with Amazon is not a rare occurrence, it just happened to be so widespread that Amazon and others that rely on the EC2 infrastructure had to publicly address and acknowledge it. Negative aspects of the ‘cloud’ are rarely addressed. I am sure there [...]

Using Dock Cleats As Cable Managers In Classrooms

When it comes to computer cabling in classroom environments, no matter what you do for the long runs, you usually a mess on your hands those final few feet to the faculty equipment.
No matter what you do in your school classrooms to handle cabling for faculty, there is that final length of cable for audio [...]

One Year Later: The Miraloma Park FUF Planting

 
Last April 2010, we did a tree planting in the Sunnyside and Miraloma Park neighborhoods of San Francisco. I had set my sights on getting something organized for the neighborhood late December in 2009 and worked with the good people at Friends of the Urban Forest to set a date that worked for them and [...]

TEDxSFED Tweets From April 9th, 2011

IF printing, here’s an alt #TEDxSFED program that won’t kill the toner. I love black too, but c’mon http://t.co/vqw5uUJ
#tedxsfed cool vibe at the place twitpic.com/4isp5k
SOMArts kinda like the tents in old Bugs Bunny cartoons- looks small on the outside, but cavernous when you look in #tedxsfed
Note to self: talk to wife re: tweetwall for living [...]