Monthly Archives: January 2006

So Google’s fourth quarter’s profit growth was only 82% and not the full 100% that analyists were expecting. So what do we do? Drop the share price 12% and erradicate 16 Billion in Market Cap. The amount of shareholder wealth … Continue reading →

Last month, researchers found the 43rd Mersenne Prime: 230,402,457-1. It’s 9,152,052 decimal digits long. Taken from Schneier on Security: 43rd Mersenne Prime Found The 700 campus computers are part of an international grid called PrimeNet, consisting of 70,000 networked computers … Continue reading →

An interesting event took place last week in New York. Basically an ISP started telling the Internet that traffic for another ISP should be sent to them instead. This is the equivilent of Cingular telling the world to direct all … Continue reading →

See: Wired News: The December CGA report — the first comprehensive look at digging accidents — found that nearly half of the 675,000 incidents in 2004 resulted from the excavator failing to contact the local One Call center. The most … Continue reading →

Thank God! Google told Networking Pipeline’s Paul Kapustka in no uncertain terms that it won’t give in to the cyberextortion. And despite reports to the contrary, Google says, it isn’t talking with any carriers about the issue. Google’s Barry Schnitt … Continue reading →

I really need to get into the credit reporting business. As a business you have to have a Duns number with the reports that come along with it. I just received a call from Dun and Bradstreet to inform me … Continue reading →

If you haven’t been paying attention an interesting thing has been happening with the datacenters in Los Angeles and other cities. They are running out of space. That’s right Los Angeles is nearing capacity for available datacenter space, the few … Continue reading →

See: Internet Daily: BellSouth wants new Net fees BellSouth Corp. confirmed Monday that it is pursuing discussions with Internet content companies to levy charges to reliably and speedily deliver their content and services. Bill Smith, chief technology officer at BellSouth, … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jeremy for this one: Recently someone pointed me at SkyVector.com which can most easily be described as “the Google Maps of Aviation.” They’ve taken the aviation sectional charts for the entire USA, scanned them, broke them up into … Continue reading →

The best blonde joke ever.