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You Can’t Blame Data Centers in Seattle for Our Skyrocketing Electricity Prices
This post was originally published on GeekWire on April 20, 2026. I had noticed this “data centers in Seattle” PR op under way and flagged it in last week’s newsletter. After a vague report that some companies were seeking to build “large” data centers in Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson is exploring a moratorium on new…
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Box Movers
When it isn’t too cloudy (weather-wise or work-wise), my office has a great view of Elliott Bay in Seattle, where I see the ships come and go (airplanes too): My new indispensable companion is MarineTraffic.com which uses a network of crowdsourced receivers to pull data off the transponders most ships have and plot them on…
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Live SkiFree or Die
Hey, I actually get this obscure xkcd reference: We did three Entertainment Packs for Windows soon after Windows 3.0 came out (tagline: “Not the most fun you can have with Windows, the only fun”). Each had about eight games. Some like Minesweeper and FreeCell got bundled with subsequent versions of Windows, but I never would…
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It’s Microzilla Time
It is time for Microsoft and Mozilla to make peace and together face their common enemy: Google. For Mozilla, Google is both sole patron and now direct competitor, which is at best strategically awkward. Firefox market share has plateaued. They’re losing their status as the browser of choice amongst the cool kids to Chrome. It…
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Conspiracy Theorizing
Reaction to the disclosure of University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit internal email is predictably bimodal. “Deniers” see it as conclusive proof global warming is a fraud. True believers are righteously ignoring the contents altogether because of how the information was acquired (it took me a while to get a Pentagon Papers reference this…
