A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

Looks like Rackspace is doing pretty well… 🙂

Throughout the past eight years, Rackspace has also undergone many changes. Last year, one of its founders, Richard Yoo, left and Morris Miller, the company’s managing director, left to start other ventures. They played a key role in helping turn the company around.

Rackspace Thrives After the Dot Com Bubble Burst

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

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This is so simple and elegant… And Kids – you can try this at home! 😀

Hey! Someone moved the cheese!

Thanks to a law passed last year, daylight-saving time will start earlier and end later beginning in 2007. It will last from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

Daylight-saving time returns on weekend

See how an engine works:

I always knew there was a third, and finally there’s an article about him…

Jawed Karim doesn’t begrudge the spotlight on YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen this week after they negotiated the video website’s sale to Google for about $1.7 billion.

Surprise! There’s a third YouTube co-founder

If you have all-wheel drive – should you replace tires in pairs? All four? Just one?

I have an all-wheel drive truck and was told that all four need to be replaced so I don’t damage the drive train.

Turns out on my particular truck, that’s not true.

The system used on my vehicle uses the traction-control system to control wheel spin and transfer power to the appropriate wheels. And in such a system, mis-matched wheel sizes are not really an issue and will cause no problems for the drive-train.

Furthermore, you have to have a significant tread wear difference to matter anyways even it if did actually matter. I’ve found numbers as large as 70% – at which point you should be thinking about replacing the tires anyways.

You can read more about the differences in the GM 4-wheel drive and all-wheel drive systems below:

GM TechLink write up with AWD info and more

My buddy Jason posted an interesting entry on what he’s seeing in the California real-estate market.

Its a good read… the comments are also worth noting as well.

Los Angeles housing market reaches the tipping point

A friend of mine sent this to me, and its a pretty good read…

The trajectory of George Foreman’s finances once had him headed into a gilded pantheon of big buckaroos who have squandered often-unimaginable sums of money.

Fortune’s Fools: Why the Rich Go Broke

Its just crazy that a hospital will charge $129 for a box of tissues!

Profit-hungry hospitals are overcharging consumers an estimated $10 billion a year. Some deliberately work to keep bills indecipherable. Here’s how to fight back.

10 ways to avoid outrageous hospital overcharges

I saw a demo of all the XGL stuff a few years back and was told it wasn’t quite ready for production yet… fast forward to present time, and now you can run it on Ubuntu!

You can download a free livecd to try out XGL here.

I tested it on a basic $300 Dell PC with a standard-PCI Nvidia FX5200 and it ran smoothly and perfectly without a hitch… most impressive… believe it or not, it may be more attractive than Apple’s Mac OS X…. Really! 😀

Hmm…

Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? This simple question is splitting America apart, with a growing proportion thinking that we did not descend from an ancestral ape. A survey of 32 European countries, the US and Japan has revealed that only Turkey is less willing than the US to accept evolution as fact.Why doesn’t America believe in evolution?

Drink more cranberry juice! 🙂

A group of tannins found primarily in cranberries can transform E. coli bacteria, a class of microorganisms responsible for a host of human illnesses, including urinary tract infections, in ways that render them unable to initiate an infection.

Compounds in cranberry juice show promise as alternatives to antibiotics