Kalisty

My past Pelco manager, Barry, has released a pretty cool social networking service called Kalisty:

"Kalisty is a collaborative tool that lets you organize and share through the use of simple Lists.
You can keep private lists, share them with others, collaborate with friends, and make your lists public so anyone can watch or add to them."

Here's a neat list:

One App A Day For the Month Of May for iPhone

Data Centers Pollute more than Airlines

Here's a twist:

"The world’s data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Co." -nytimes

I think this is very interesting. As programmers we've been preaching about trading CPU cycles for programmer cycles. Meaning, why write efficient code (uses less servers for the same amount of process) when we can use higher level languages to write (less efficient) code.

These tiny tradeoffs become huge factors when scaled up.

At a $100 million per data center could they factor in solar cells?

eSolar describes its approach as a "market disrupting solar thermal power plant technology." Generation can be scaled from 25MW to over 500MW at energy prices competitive with traditional fossil fuels. The company, which ios based in Pasadena, Calif., intends to provide modular solar power plants that scale in increments of 25 megawatts.

New Key Strokes

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog!"

Quick! Did you see how fast I typed that out? Did you see how fast I corrected my rushed typing? Did you see that fancy keyboard on my desk?



The new Apple Keyboard arrived at the office today. I've been coding with it for a few hours now and love it.

I remember a while back my co-worker saying something about how he wished there was a keyboard out that felt just like the MacBook keyboard. I thought it would be cool and was happy to see Apple release it.

I used to use the old style Apple Keyboard but for some odd reason the stroke had a lot of friction. The new one is lightening fast with it's low profile and easy stroke.

With all these Apple products I'm starting to feel Macho....or is that MacHo?

Internet in the bathroom?

I bought an iPhone last friday. The recent price drop helped to make purchase less painful. Figuring I wouldn't need the extra four gigs I chose the 4GB model at $299. At that price the iPhone is in the same price range as the other phones.




Basically I believe Apple nailed the design. The user experience is much better than any other cell phone out there. The sound quality is excellent, form factor is practical, and the user interface is polished and easy.

All the information you'll need when carrying a phone is with you ( maps, contacts, weather, stocks) presented with a beautiful interface.

I don't have any complaints yet. All I can think of that I haven't seen is the ability to create my own applications.