Last Friday, as part of early birthday celebrations I had dinner in Dean Street in London’s Soho area. Prix Fixe (French for fixed price, meaning a set menu) is a small and unassuming restaurant, styled to look like a typical French Brasserie.
Inside, the table and chairs are basic and simple, with the decor representing [...]
The time has come around quickly and yet again I find myself attending another Tech Field Day. However this will only be my third event; it’s also the very first Storage Field Day – an event dedicated to storage companies. Over the course of the two days we will see a range of [...]
As part of my trip to San Jose for Storage Field Day, I will be participating in the Solid State Storage Symposium, which is being held the day before the Field Day event on 25th April 2012 at the DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose. You can find a link to the event [...]
It would appear that yet another new podcast has sprung to life from the storage blogging community. This week saw the first episode of HP Techcast from Calvin Zito and Geekazine’s Jeffrey Powers. You can find the link to the podcast at the end of this post. Sounds like the [...]
A few weeks ago I recorded a podcast with HP and a few other bloggers (Hans De Leenheer and Luigi Danakos) in which we discussed the new HP SSD version of the Lefthand P400 array. SSD is becoming more prevalent in storage arrays, not just from the simple inclusion of [...]
Last week we took a trip to what is fast becoming our favourite local Indian restaurant; Aroma Spice in Sundon Village. Based in a converted pub, the restaurant has been around for some time, but we’ve only recently discovered it. Locally “Gourmet Nights” are usually Tuesday and Wednesday, where starter, main, rice/bread and side dish [...]
Last week we heard about the death of NekkidTech, Greg Knieriemen‘s follow-on podcast vehicle after leaving the InfoSmack fold. After only 23 episodes, this format of podcast is over and I hear that something new may be coming this week. InfoSmack itself seems to have evolved and is [...]
At the end of April I will be attending the first Storage Field Day, part of Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Day events. It seems a little odd to be having a dedicated storage day, as most or a majority perhaps of the preceding presentations have been storage focused. However there’s been a theme [...]
Here’s a link to a podcast I did last week with my good friend Rick Vanover. It’s a discussion on SSD and where we stand today. With the wealth of SSD information around today, this podcast could have been 2 hours long!
Today is the official launch of the Raspberry Pi, an ambitious UK project to create low cost computing with the aim of bringing a proper understanding of computing back to education. The device is itself is a fully fledged computer the size of a credit card with external USB and HDMI connectors. What’s remarkable about [...]
