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jernst on March 7th, 2012

Very impressive. KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

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jernst on February 28th, 2012

After about 14 years, I just took home the last colocated physical server that we owned. All our sites have moved to cloud servers, mostly at Amazon and Rackspace. Hopefully I will never have to buy a physical server again. No more exploding fans (yes), funny motherboard timing errors, and faulty RAID arrays. No more [...]

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At the end of July, for various reasons, my wife and I had to change health insurers from Kaiser Permanente to United Health. Given that Kaiser has its own doctors, that also meant changing provider organizations, in our case to Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), which is a Sutter Health affiliate. Which means we needed [...]

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Johannes Ernst on October 6th, 2011

In the epic, powerful 1946 movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, we follow a small-town credit union manager as he learns what the world would have turned into if he had never been born. What if Steve Jobs had never been born? It’s a scary thought. There wouldn’t be iPads or any usable tablets. Their impact [...]

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Johannes Ernst on March 23rd, 2010

Here. I still think it is <<insert strong adjective here>> that none of the major content companies other than Google have in any way supported Google’s stand here. At the very least, they could publicly say that they admire Google’s point of view. It costs them nothing, and does have an impact as we can [...]

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