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Transparency buried beneath ash heap. Wallboard the fix?

Transparency buried beneath ash heap. Wallboard the fix?I'd be careful, Harry....... if those ash heaps are now a "state secret", and if you have compiled a list of ash heaps from other sources anyway, then you may in for a visit from the men in black helicopters. Just remember...

Tags: ash heap, Wallboard

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

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Transparency buried beneath ash heap. Wallboard the fix?

There are apparently 44 coal ash heaps that endanger human lives in the U.S. That's the EPA's conclusion. And those 44 sites will remain secret because you or some other terrorist might unleash a deadly ash flow through the coal-burning communities of the U.S. I blogged...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Coal Ash, Turnabout, Vertical Industries, Homeland Security, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc power

Slowly the depth, or rather height, of the American coal ash problem is leaking out of the political closet. Now one U.S. Senator says she is barred from talking about specific coal ash heap problems because they are a severe security risk. One well-placed bomb...and then disaster. ...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Alpine iDA-X001

Alpine iDA-X001I'm lovin' itWe live in a generation where Paradyme shifts are the rule, not the exception, where all of your life's touchstones and ways of doing things are readily consigned to the 'ash heap of history'. Such as it is with car audio.The Alpine iDA X001 was the first...

Tags: Alpine iDA-X001, Alpine

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration

Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of CollaborationThe Real challenge is not in technology ...Ms. Warrior's predictions will almost likely come true. However, while technology can give us capabilities, human beings decide whether or not to actually use technology -- and history is littered with instances of great...

Tags: Groupware, Collaboration Technology, collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., network

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

What should we do with Tennessee and West Virginia when we're done?

I've blogged on the recent coal ash flood around a TVA power plant. No body died and a few homes got wrecked from waste after decades of cheap coal-fired electricity. So what's the big deal? Besides it was in Tennessee which is not your big media center...

Tags: Cement, Ash, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-07

How to REALLY erase a LOT of hard drives

How to REALLY erase a LOT of hard drivesDBANNo DBAN listed in the options available?Tor those looking for an affordable option, try DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) hosted at sourceforge. It's not only free, but will gladly wipe 8 SATA HDD at once with minimal hassle.$11k for a program...

Tags: governemnt, hard drive, DBAN

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

Is the US government a good model for SOA governance?

Ive been meaning to surface one of Dana Gardners latest SOA BriefingsDirect podcasts, in which we were joined by Miko Matsumura, VP of marketing for webMethods (now Software AG/webMethods of course). Miko has a gift for translating complex SOA topics into mentally tangible metaphors, and the chat turned to an...

Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-04-09

NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?

NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?Study data warehouses more before slamming market leadersThis BLog is a 100% inaccurate prediction with no substantiating facts. Sun has tried unsuccessfully multiple times to get into DW. GreenPlum is one of a long series of start ups that has...

Tags: Business intelligence, Storage, Databases, GreenPlum, NCR Corp., Gartner Inc., data warehouse

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?

I always wondered what NCR was doing owning Teradatas data warehouse business -- after all NCR makes cash registers, point of sales machines, and all manner of self-service kiosks and the like. Meanwhile, Teradata makes massive sanitary landfills of data, the dumping grounds for terabytes of formerly useful data now...

Tags: Uncategorized, data warehouse

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Goodbye, Java EE?

Rich Seeley surfaced a report from Burton Group's Richard Monson-Haefel in which the analyst uncategorically states that Java Enterprise Edition is destined for the ash heap of history. Monson-Haefel predicts that "In five years, Java EE will be the...

Tags: Java, Java EE

Blog posts 2006-07-11

NASA handler who muzzled scientist resigns; faked college degree

NASA handler who muzzled scientist resigns; faked college degreeSuffixing theories with "theory"Deutsch's cut on putting "theory" after "Big Bang" is an excellent idea that I heartily applaud--no scientist not bound by economy of words would disagree. And surely we can applaud with equal enthusiasm the appending of the phrase "--a...

Tags: Lord, NASA, Deutsch, theory, Big Bang

Discussion threads 2006-02-09