{"id":6572,"date":"2011-04-26T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2011-04-26T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T18:42:54","slug":"links-for-april-21st-through-april-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/04\/26\/links-for-april-21st-through-april-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for April 21st through April 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/5650272377\/\" title=\"First visit to Barton Springs this season by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5107\/5650272377_a2547de28c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"First visit to Barton Springs this season\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Summer is virtually here in Austin. It&#8217;s time to head down to Barton Springs at least every weekend, if not more! We went there during this past Easter weekend, and it was wonderful.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul class=\"deliciousLinks\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/2011\/04\/frog-design-aged-to-perfection.html\">frog design: Aged To Perfection<\/a><br \/>&quot;Interestingly, both of these products spent the greater part of their working lives sporting these wear patterns. The truth is that consumer products are &lsquo;new&rsquo; for a very brief moment when they are first removed from the packaging, but spend the great majority of their useful lives as &lsquo;used&rsquo; products in the process of decay. Many welcome the breaking-in of products like a leather wallet or a pair of jeans as this wear can be aesthetically-pleasing. The Japanese have a term for this, &ldquo;Wabi-sabi&rdquo;. Wabi-sabi can be used to describe the aesthetically pleasing wear of an object as it decays over time. It&rsquo;s a notion that embraces the transience of objects and celebrates the purity of the imperfect. Aging with dignity is a criteria designers should recognize in their efforts.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjungle.com\/tfh\/tfh042511-story03.html\">Power Systems Sales Jump 19 Percent in Q1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appconomy.com\/theappconomy\/2011\/04\/announcing-two-new-mobile-maps\/\">Announcing Two New Mobile Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualizingeconomics.com\/2011\/04\/14\/top-marginal-tax-rates-1916-2010\/\">Top Marginal Tax Rates 1916-2010 &mdash; VisualizingEconomics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2011\/04\/21\/major-amazon-outage-ripples-across-web\/\">Major Amazon Outage Ripples Across Web &laquo; Data Center Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/print\/453214\">Cloud Computing to the Max at Bechtel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meraki.com\/products_services\/enterprise\">Meraki: Enterprise 802.11n Wireless LAN<\/a><br \/>This looks real interesting, esp. this part: &quot;Each AP is constantly monitored and optimized from the cloud, so the network automatically adapts to changing interference conditions.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/projectfailures\/research-75-percent-believe-it-projects-are-doomed\/13016\">Research: 75 percent believe IT projects are &#039;doomed&#039;<\/a><br \/>&quot;Seventy-five percent of respondents believe that their projects are either always or usually &#039;doomed right from the start.&#039;&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/searchdatacenter.techtarget.com\/feature\/Making-time-for-IT-planning-Advisory-Board-QA\">Making time for IT planning: Advisory Board Q&amp;A<\/a><br \/>&quot;For the most part, I&#039;d say that the words &quot;strategic&quot; and &quot;IT&quot; are rarely seen together. IT is seen as a rude utility by most businesses and therefore, is not given the time and money to focus on longer-term strategic planning. Instead, [the IT department] has to keep things up and running, respond to silly requests about email attachment size and focus on driving costs down. [Good businesses] look at IT as source for business differentiations. How can IT be used to compete in the marketplace, and not just save more money on the CFO&#039;s spreadsheet? Once the business starts asking IT to the table, IT can start [strategic] planning.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/searchdatacenter.techtarget.com\/feature\/Asset-management-tools-in-the-modern-data-center-Advisory-Board-QA\">Asset management tools in the modern data center: Advisory Board Q&amp;A<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~r\/moconews\/~3\/t1KCqhyHKLU\/\">Nokia, Microsoft Reveal Details Of Their Deal While Nokia&#039;s Earnings Drop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a> for clients mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is virtually here in Austin. It&#8217;s time to head down to Barton Springs at least every weekend, if not more! We went there during this past Easter weekend, and it was wonderful. frog design: Aged To Perfection&quot;Interestingly, both of these products spent the greater part of their working lives sporting these wear patterns. 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