--- title: links for 2007-01-20 date: 2007-01-20T05:29:33Z modified: 2007-01-20T05:29:33Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/19/links-for-2007-01-20/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1338 categories: - Links timestamp: 2007-01-20T05:29:33Z tags: - Links --- - [MaineToday.com | News Update: Fairpoint CEO promises broadband, good labor relations](http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/008721.html) “The CEO of the company taking over Verizon’s local phone exchanges in northern New England vowed Thursday to invest $200 million…and to be much more aggressive deploying broadband Internet service to rural areas.” – Georgetown first, please (tags: [Maine](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Maine) [broadband](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/broadband) [Verizon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Verizon) [Fairpoint](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Fairpoint) [landlines](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/landlines)) - [Raible Designs | The Adventure is Over](http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?entry=the_adventure_is_over) sorry to hear that Virtuas is folding up shop, but it wasn’t totally unexpected. if you’re looking for open source / Java talent, what are you waiting for? hire Matt (tags: [Raible](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Raible) [Virtuas](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Virtuas) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [systemsintegration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/systemsintegration)) - [DeWitt Clinton » Blog Archive » Firefox. Reloaded, again, and again, and again.](http://blog.unto.net/miscellaneous/firefox-reloaded-again-and-again-and-again/#comment-2756) DeWitt suffering from some of the same issues i was (tags: [Clinton](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Clinton) [Firefox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Firefox) [2.0](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/2.0) [instability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/instability)) - [Photo Matt » Sun Isn’t Relevant to Startups](http://photomatt.net/2007/01/18/relevant-sun/) the irony here is thick: Sun’s Start Up Essentials program called me incessantly – when i didn’t need to talk to them – and did not call Matt back, when they should have (tags: [Sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Sun) [startups](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/startups) [Web2.0](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Web2.0) [Mullenweg](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Mullenweg)) - [John Sequeira’s Weblog](http://www.jsequeira.com/blog/2007/01/19.html#a882) interesting; i’m not familiar w/ H2, will have to give it a look – John’s right though, database benchmarks depend *so* highly on type of workload (tags: [MySQL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MySQL) [Postgres](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Postgres) [Derby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Derby) [H2](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/H2) [HSQL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/HSQL)) - [Open Sources | InfoWorld | EnterpriseDB (Andy Astor) on being open | January 19, 2007 09:48 AM | By Dave Rosenberg](http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/enterprisedb_an.html) good rebuttal from Andy on some of the open source debate…hmm, maybe a good candidate for a RedMonk Radio session (tags: [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [Astor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Astor) [EnterpriseDB](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/EnterpriseDB) [Postgres](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Postgres) [RedMonkRadio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedMonkRadio)) - [Adding Simplicity – An Engineering Mantra: Compute Power, Is Your Architecture Green?](http://www.addsimplicity.com/adding_simplicity_an_engi/2007/01/compute_power_i.html) “This article rang particularly true for me as I’ve recently been pushing the concept of optimizing TPS/watt.” – all the more interesting because Dan’s a Technical Fellow at eBay (tags: [eBay](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/eBay) [Pritchett](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Pritchett) [TPS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/TPS) [watt](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/watt) [energy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/energy) [ecofriendly](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ecofriendly) [green](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/green) [architecture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/architecture) [power](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/power)) - [MaineToday.com | News Update: All Maine Guard members eligible for deployment](http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/008738.html) “Maine’s National Guard chief on Friday said he’s received official word that all 24-month deployment limits to Iraq and Afghanistan have been rescinded.” – terrible news for a lot of Maine families (tags: [Maine](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Maine) [NationalGuard](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/NationalGuard) [Iraq](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Iraq)) - [Wired 15.01: 10 Top Tech Towns](http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/geekcities.html) alas, Denver doesn’t make the cut (tags: [list](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/list) [top](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/top) [tech](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tech) [towns](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/towns) [Boston](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Boston) [SanFrancisco](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SanFrancisco) [Austin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Austin) [Seattle](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Seattle) [via:ktg](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:ktg))