Links for April 17th through April 19th

A little something extra…

My folks cleaned out their attic recently and had some dishes to give to you – they matched one of the sets we had. As usual, they’d used wadded up newspaper to cushion the dishes. Seeing that the paper was from 1993, I was excited to see the 10+ year old ads in there. There were a couple of good tech ones – the cellphone brick one above and one for Apple Performas – along with others. Also, these tips for your home office are pretty good – nice attention to FAX machines!

The most remarkable thing is how much printers used to cost, and the computers themselves are pricey as well. Can you imagine paying $378 for a FAX machine?! You probably can’t give those things away now-a-days. All that budget slack gives us plenty of cash to spend on big TVs, monitors, cellphones, tablets, and iPods I suppose.

My folks also brought over all my old comic books, which are much more entertaining if you don’t get all worked up over early 90’s FAX machine pricing 😉

The Links

• Gizmodo ganks up iPhone prototype
• Performance Management in the Cloud – It’s your problem! | Compuware APM Blog
  "The answer of course is no, but it requires an application centric view of the world, not an infrastructure centric view of the world."
• Operations Community Content on InfoQ
  InfoQ now doing Ops stuff.
• Volcano in your way? Streaming news…
  "Come view the Microsoft Management Summit executive keynotes live on the web. Don’t miss this opportunity to see our top executives discuss the latest IT Management news, strategies, and solutions from Microsoft, and how to apply them in your organization."
• Advanced Case Management
• Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?
  "Ms. Vijayashanker is starting her company now, partly because she wants to have a family in a few years and says the tech start-up lifestyle isn’t hospitable to child-rearing. That’s why, she says, many young women prefer working at big companies to starting their own."
• InfoQ: Debate: What is the Role of an Operations Team in Software Development Today? [Updated Apr 19th]
• bizjournals mobile: Austin Business Journal: Austin VC activity increases in Q1, median drops
• It's the @Dabr stat attack! – Dabr blog
• Palm software head quits company – Techworld.com
  Things getting worse for Palm.
• Big Data: Opportunities for Computational and Social Sciences
  When futzin' around with big data and analytics, don't let dumb base assumptions screw you up.
• Tech.view: Flash in the pan | The Economist

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