By Robert J Berger, on December 16th, 2008
I live in Saratoga, CA, part of “High Tech” Silicon Valley. And my neighborhood STILL does NOT have ANY broadband services.
None! (I don’t count unreliable wireless with less than 1Mbps for more than $100/month a viable consumer broadband offering).
AT&T and Comcast are the “franchised” service providers (I.E. monopolies) for the area and they have no plans [...]
By Robert J Berger, on December 10th, 2008
Ok, so there are at least 100 jobs directly or indirectly dependent on my being kept financially viable. I am just TOO BIG TO FAIL. So its time that I get MY Bailout from the government. I don’t need too much, a simple $1M will do for now. That’s about the same ratio as the amount [...]
By Robert J Berger, on November 28th, 2008
We are using Git to manage our deployments, but have some clients that use shared hosting services that don’t have git installed (in particular Hostgator.com).
Most of these shared hosting services do allow ssh shell access but don’t have compilers available on the shared hosting account. So I couldn’t just build git on the shared hosting [...]
By Robert J Berger, on November 14th, 2008
An amazing article about those who saw the financial apocalypse coming and actually shorted the whole thing.
The End
by Michael Lewis Nov 11 2008
The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
Photoillustration by: Ji Lee
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On July 19, 2007, [...]