The Origin of Hodl
It was one fateful day on Reddit. When one drunk and clearly emotionally unstable Reddit User made a post. He was so distraught, drunk and crazy that he wrote “hodl” 3 times and still...
Monthly Archive: October 2018
The Hype and Reality Around SDDC (Software Defined Data Centers)
There’s been growing interest and hype around software defined data centers. It sounds great on paper to have a whole datacenter in software that is portable and flexible. But people forget, that the REAL...
Amazon Paying Employees To Report Positive Working Experience
Amazon, after a slew of bad press regarding poor working conditions and mistreatment of workers,has reportedly paid staff to post positive messages about their work environment. It was TechCrunch that found and headlined the...
Do Not Track Is Still Tracking
Ever click the “Do Not Track’ function in your browser settings assuming that it’s stopping pages and websites from ‘tracking you and your online activity’? Any reasonable person would think this. Except it’s still...
Attack The Day
Are you wasting time or valuing it? I have to admit, I have been very bored these last 3 years. So much so that my wife told me to either get a hobby outside...
Online Safety For Your Kids
The single most important thing to do is to keep your kids safe. But with the world becoming more social and more open, it’s getting harder for parents to navigate how to keep our...
Vancouver a Tech Hub for Large Business only?
Not Really… I found this article by Microsoft to be fairly interesting and if anything it mirrors what I’ve been saying even though I would say my perspective (as small/mid business is the opposite). ...
Were Amazon, Elemental, Apple and Thousands of Supermicro Servers Compromised by the Chinese Government?
I’m going to be discussing some astounding news from Bloomberg, which is an allegation that Chinese Operatives working for the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) forced subcontractors working for Supermicro to alter their hardware design...
Can Private Permissioned Blockchains Be Successful?
One author with experience seems to think the answer is no. I think Angus drives a lot of valid insight at a very high level with anecdotal experience from the enterprise. He essentially gives...
Oracle’s NoSQL Service a Signal For The Future
Oracle just released their NoSQL service. Is it just me or is it like Microsoft switching to a Unix based architecture? Oracle’s transactional database system has been the standard for ERP, finance and other...
