Entries from April 2007

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Average Seattle worker can’t afford to live here

Average Seattle worker cant afford to live here Geez, how long have I been saying exactly this? Tony To, a Seattle Planning Commission member and director of the housing agency HomeSight, said developers could take some steps without incentives. He lauded Belltowns moda condos, which got prices as low as $149,950 by cutting unit size [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

I am not doing an April fools post

Because they are dumb. Because I also don’t own a “hang in there” kitten poster. even in an ironic way

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Holy crap this is racist and lame!

Welcome to South of the Border Online So anyone who has ever lived on the east coast knows south of the border. Any band that has ever toured has got at least one south of the border bumper sticker on a guitar case (along with the wall drug, mystery spot and little america bumper stickers). [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Microsoft’s take on the data center in a trailer

I haven’t really posted about this because datacenters haven’t been my thing for a while, but I have been following the discussion with a sort of geeky fascination. I’d heard the google rumour for a while, then came the Sun announcement, then the Rackable Systems product. The idea is great, no need to scale out [...]