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The full cost of ADHD includes ignorance

The bottom line is that until we stop treating ADHD as a disability, seeing it as the mixed blessing it in fact is, and stop stigmatizing those with ADHD, instead celebrating our accomplishments, it will continue to cost all of us. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: robin williams, ignorance, disability, adhd, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Robin Williams yucks it up for 'Spore'

Robin Williams yucks it up for 'Spore'Can't wait.Been looking forward to Spore for a long time

Tags: spore, robin williams, yuck

Discussion threads 2006-05-11

Photos: Google's Page takes CES stage

CEO Larry Page takes the stage for the last keynote of CES, and comedian Robin Williams joins in.

Tags: robin williams, consumer electronics show, larry page, ceo, google inc.

Image galleries 2006-01-06

Photos: Google's Page takes CES stage

CEO Larry Page takes the stage for the last keynote of CES, and comedian Robin Williams joins in.

Tags: robin williams, consumer electronics show, larry page, google inc., ceo

Image galleries 2006-01-06

Additional Resources

Holy cow, Batman, it's a Platinum-level green data center!

Holy cow, Batman, it's a Platinum-level green data center!Don't Have a CowYour pop culture reference is missing an important element. Robin would NEVER say "Holy cow, Batman!" (at least, the Burt Ward TV character wouldn't). Cows don't have anything to do with Platinum-level green data centers.Robin: "Holy molars!...

Tags: data centers, holy cow, batman, platinum-level, data center

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk density

HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk densityOldie but a goodieI have a feeling that hard disks are going to be around for quite some time - even with the rise of hard disk sizes and lowering of price there are still robotic tape libraries that are being developed and sold.There will never...

Tags: disk density, hgst, disk

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook

Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista Ed Bott: You've got Vista x64 questions, I've got answers Jason O'Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x) Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs:...

Tags: facebook, microsoft windows vista, apple inc., intel corp., vyatta, mauku, phishing, service-oriented architecture (soa), sales strategy, cyberthreats, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), spam, security, spam and phishing, web services, enterprise software, software, sales, operating systems, microsoft windows, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk density

Disk vendors have a rough idea of how other to reach 10 TB drives within 10 years. But what about 2 years? Hitachi global storage technologies has announced that they have achieved 2 1/2 times the current commercial recording density in a laboratory demonstration. What does that...

Tags: disk, density, hgst, current recording density, parity code, robin harris

Blog posts 2008-08-04

News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...

Tags: apple iphone, larry dignan, broadband, apple inc., net neutrality, microsoft windows, 64-bit, network technology, operating systems, software, processors, semiconductors, hardware, components, networking

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Why there's no Mac tablet this quarter

The Mac blogosphere wants a tablet Mac for this quarter's "product transition." Here's why they won't get it. Good news: the Internet isn't making us stupid Apple's CFO mentioned a product transition driving gross margins down. Most commentators don't seem know what gross margin means, and...

Tags: apple macintosh, margin, apple macbook, apple inc., tablet, product transition, mac blogosphere, bits, slab, sales strategy, desktops, notebooks, research & development, sales force management, sales, hardware, notebooks & tablets, business operations, robin harris

Blog posts 2008-07-30

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3iI dove deep dude ...... and in Table 11 came to 'iSCSI with Broadcom GB NIC'. Might give that a try before buying a RAID card.How about an expo from you/Robin H. on iSCSI? Some free offerings out there for iSCSI targets these...

Tags: ip storage, storage area networks (san), network technology, sata chipset, vmware inc., iscsi, serial ata, raid, vmware esx, esx, storage

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Apple's coming notebook transition

Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...

Tags: notebook, apple macintosh, apple inc., blu-ray, product transition, portable growth, desktops, hardware, robin harris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest

Notable headlines: Earnings wrap: Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations Microsoft: $60 billion...

Tags: google inc., microsoft corp., advanced micro devices inc., ibm corp., keyboards, digital cameras, digital photography, asset management, monitors & displays, hardware, peripherals, consumer electronics, personal technology, operational planning, business operations, components, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Super flash, hyper flash

Samsung has announced a new SLC flash part with 5x the write/erase cycle spec over standard single-level cell SLC NAND flash. They call it server grade flash. Is this the flash promised land or marketing hype? 5x what? The press release doesn't mention any numbers, but...

Tags: sun microsystems inc., storage pyramid, marketing research, storage, marketing, hardware, robin harris

Blog posts 2008-07-17

News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect   Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...

Tags: google inc., larry dignan, yahoo! inc., sap ag, apple inc., microsoft corp., ebay inc., laptop computer, notebooks, security, hardware, notebooks & tablets

Blog posts 2008-07-17

The edge-centric Internet

Why isn't the edge of the network the center? More computes and storage gets shipped to consumers than to Internet data centers, so consumers should help power the Internet. And get paid for it. P2P vs Internet data centers A new project, spearheaded by National ICT...

Tags: consumer, internet data center, data center, internet, data centers, internet service providers (isps), storage, hardware, data management, robin harris

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Twitter going commercial?

According to Mike Arrington, there is a commercial play for Twitter in the works. During a conversation with Ev Williams, Twitter co-founder: MA: What is your revenue model? Do you know yet? Have you thought about it? EW: We've thought about it. We had...

Tags: twitter, e-mail, operational accounting, productivity, processors, online communications, finance, semiconductors, hardware, components, dennis howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-16

News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0? Dana Blankenhorn:...

Tags: apple iphone, oracle corp., online video, video, microsoft corp., intel corp., 3g, corporate communications, cellular phones, wireless, consumer electronics, personal technology, marketing, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

FTP: untrustworthy file transfer

FTP: untrustworthy file transferWow Robin, good blog!It is, of course, very old news that FTP is not secure by design but it is still good to get the word out.However, I'm a little disappointed that you didn't use the same logic you used when you blamed MS for file system...

Tags: anonymous ftp site, ftp

Discussion threads 2008-07-14