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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Now Has Windows

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Amazon Web Services has a new product in their Elastic Compute Cloud, they now offer Microsoft Windows virtual servers. Until now, the only virtual machines you could use from EC2 were Linux/Unix based virtual machines. These virtual machines provide quick and “easy” scalability for web applications. Virtual machines have also gained popularity in the IT [...]

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tonight I have been experimenting with Microsoft speech recognition. The experiment has been a pretty bad failure. The technology is still not as good as it should be. It is very aggravating to try to write a sentence. I think part of my problem is that if your microphone is not [...]

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How to be successfully homeless

Thursday, October 23, 2008

If you are a single person, you can successfully live without a home and still live a complete life. Many of the benefits of having a place to stay are available to a well-thought homeless situation. Let me point out that homeless does not mean jobless. To successfully pull this off, you will need a [...]

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Highrise Added Deals and Did Not Tell You

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I have been using HighriseHQ for over a month now. Today, I noticed a new feature that I had not seen, called Deals. I don’t think it was there when I started using the service. Highrise is very easy to use; but its simplicity also gave it some limitations on its use as a sales-oriented [...]

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Interview: Texas Wine & Song Festival

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Join me as I talk to the organizers of the Second Annual Texas Wine & Song Festival in Austin, Texas. You can listen to the LIVE podcast on October 12, 2008 at 2 pm CST on BlogTalkRadio.
The Texas Wine & Song Festival will raise funds for the SIMS Foundation. Find out more about the wine [...]

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