Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
We’ve all seen standard PR non-responses, as in “leaving to pursue other opportunities”, but my all time favorite excuse for an executive not responding to a question is this: “A Giants spokeswoman said Magowan was out of the country and unavailable for comment. “ [From Giant Enablers] Because, well you know, when you are out [...]
Does the idea of a global carbon tax administered by the United Nations frighten you as much as it does me? A massive tax scheme administered by an entity with zero accountability or moral authority bestowed on it by citizens. Whatever your position on climate change is, surely you cannot think that the United Nations [...]
AWS filled a major gap in their offering with the addition of SimpleDB. Two things jumped out at me, the first being that it’s optimized for very large datasets and the second, more important as well, observation is that it’s designed around search indexes instead of schemas. There’s a lot more to be said about [...]
Maybe it’s not entirely fair to call The Curtis hotel in downtown Denver (14th Street & Curtis) the worst, it is likely that a La Quinta or Motel 6 would rank lower… Denver is fortunate to have a number of really fine hotels, including the Hyatt Regency and, my favorite, the Monaco Hotel. I am [...]