Geek & Technophile

I'm an IT Professional, geek and technology 'edge case'. I enjoy keeping up with the latest devices, technologies and news in the IT world. On this site I post some of those things I find most interesting. I hope you find them interesting as well.


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July 17 2008

The Dark Knight

Unless you live under a rock you know the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, opens tomorrow.  Heath Ledger plays The Joker in what is rumored to be his best performance ever

The buzz over Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker in “The Dark Knight” for the last several months was justified. With his final full film role, Ledger delivers what may be remembered as the finest performance of his career.

On a lighter note, here’s The Dark Knight trailor made by kids…

July 15 2008

Quick Links for Jul 15th

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

July 14 2008

Quick Links for Jul 14th

Here are some interesting links from today:

  • The supercomputers of Oak Ridge National Lab
    Oak Ridge National Lab, which is a DoE research, is probably most famous for being the place where the first plutonium was processed. But these days, it is a hotbed of research into materials sciences, energy efficiency and, of course, supercomputing.
  • Congressman Culberson Pioneers Real Time Representation
    I discovered the extent and potential of social media this past May, and I will keep expanding my use of these tools beyond Qik, Twitter, Utterz and Ustream to communicate with constituents and anyone interested in a polite thoughtful debate/discussion.

July 11 2008

Quick Links for Jul 11th

Here are some interesting links from today:

  • Data Center Strategies: VMware: Welcome to the Game.
    Hyper-V may not be the best hypervisor in the market, but it might be the best hypervisor for Exchange or for Windows environments. And given Hyper-V’s price (free), it might just be “good enough” to compete.
  • Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference
    FCC chairman told AP that Comcast’s BitTorrent throttling is “arbitrary”, and that the company had violated the principles of the Federal Communications Commission.
  • iPhone 2.0 – Welcome to Exchange!
    We're thrilled to add them to the family of Exchange ActiveSync licensees. This means you may see some new devices connecting and we wanted to give you a few notes about what to expect. What iPhone looks like from an Administrator's perspective

July 11 2008

Quick Links for Jul 10th

Here are some interesting links from today:

  • Google News Tests New Design
    Google News experiments with a lively and visually-rich design that shows images, videos, quotes, but also interesting and popular stories.
  • Dell Opens Up Social Media Sites to All Employees
    Several weeks back, Dell made a decision to give our employees access to social media sites and now we've expanded access to lots of other social media sites including MySpace, LinkedIn, Bebo, Orkut, Flickr, Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk and more.