OK – It’s been a while since I’ve had a blog post and it’s just starting to get on my nerves. As you might expect, it’s a time thing. Just not enough of it – Summer is coming, I’m out biking more, work has started to pick up. All good things, but still gotta find more time to blog again.

I just listened to a recent Floss Weekly Podcast about BOINC, an open source middleware system from Berkeley for Volunteer Computing. You’ve probably heard of Seti@Home or Folding@Home as well as some of the many other collaborative projects out there. This got me thinking about how Volunteer Computing and Cloud Computing relate to one another. Certainly, these are not technically the same.

I recently had the opportunity to work with a friends company to create an on-line application demo video. This is similar to work I had done in the past, except that this was for a commercial application instead of for an in-house custom application. View the video here: http://www.bassets.net/edepre/demovideo/ I used Camtasia for the entire process – screen recording, editing, and final

This is a repost of a JibJab video I first found on Mat Kennedy”s Pay4Rides.com Blog. Very funny.

You gotta love the Mac-v-PC ads. Besides being a big fan of John Hodgman, they’re just plain funny. When I met my wife she was a Mac-head. I didn’t as much convert her as I did make the buying decisions for our home computers. Most of her friends have Macs. Even some of my friends have purchased Macs for home.

col·lab·o·rate intr.v. col·lab·o·rat·ed, col·lab·o·rat·ing, col·lab·o·rates 1. To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort. 2. To cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one’s country. 3. Google Applications   I added #3, but it’s true. Google Applications means collaboration. And the best part is it’s free. There is the full suite of Google Applications where they link your domain to their apps

I was just going through my Mozy.com Backup Settings making sure that it is backing up all of my important files. During that process, I came across some old code and documents I had written for Kepner-Tregoe way back in the 90′s. It was kind of nostalgic. Hard to believe that something I created helped run the business, and in