I’m glad SOMEONE finally got it right… yay for BackBlaze! 😀

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867.

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

From the San Antonio Express News:

Many of those students stay in San Antonio and contribute to the city’s intellectual and economic base. For example, Dirk Elmendorf, Patrick Condon and Richard Yoo founded Web hosting company Rackspace in 1998. Trinity’s 700 employees also contribute $25 million to the local economy.

Trinity tops goal of raising $200 million

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The amount of time taken to produce this video must have been tremendous – wow!

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I watched this and wondered “what could possibly go wrong?”… and man, was I rewarded for my patience… 😀

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This is really cool, and it’ll save you a ton of dough over the commerical Wi-Spy:

DIY-Spy: a homebrew 2.4GHz wi-fi spectrum analyzer

This guy managed to make an entire pasta meal from scratch in his hotel room with only tools he can find in his room… amazing:

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Mad Men Season 3 comes this weekend…. oh yeah!

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How to make ramen even easier…

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Its almost like making ice cream! Well, sort of… 🙂

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http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/

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How to determine the number of M&M’s in a jar…

Woah – this is going to be awesome!