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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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A Little Sunshine
I’ve been meaning to post on Sun’s latest earnings, but have been delinquent. It is harder to poke fun in light of their thousands of pending job cuts, but my post speaks to the root cause of Sun’s predicament: software. I have often questioned Sun’s software strategy (here and here), going back to the fixation…
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Yo Decho
In my spare time (when I’m not busy blogging ;-), I am hanging out these days at Decho Corporation. The name is short for “digital echo”, which is meant to evoke that valuable and ever-growing body of personal, digital information we all accumulate and have reverberating through our lives (photos, documents, financial records, contacts, correspondence,…
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A Noble Cause
Addressing the dinosaur divide: Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world have inadequate access to dinosaurs. Some receive no paleontology training at all. One in three has never even seen a dinosaur in person. UPDATE: I am a little embarrassed by this post. First, the title should have been just “Closing…
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Calling the Election
Forget about the politicians, the biggest loser on November 5th will be old media. The Olympics are over. The election will be over (and evidently $2.5 billion in political advertising this year wasn’t enough to stop a decline in overall media advertising through August). Old media is already in steep decline and this recession is…
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My Vote
Goes to any politician who removes the Do Not Call Registry’s self-serving exemption for political organizations. Do they really believe that people who registered for this wildly popular program (over 157 million phone numbers registered) still want to receive robo-calls? The phone has been ringing all weekend.