Author: Johannes Ernst

  • Hypercritical: A Story of Triumph

    Very worthwhile to listen to. http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/37-a-story-of-triumph “People made this!” Hat tip to Scott Loftesness on Facebook.

  • A Wonderful Life — Steve Jobs

    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…

  • Datacenters then and now

    Rackspace has a cool video:

  • It’s Time To Abolish SSL Certificate Authorities

    Yet another case this week where unsuspecting users were compromised because a certificate authority that they had never heard of screwed up. In case you hadn’t heard, they issued a certificate for google.com (Google!) to somebody other than Google, and apparently that certificate was in fact used to compromise users in Iran. This is not…

  • I Want … iPhoneTV

    Take the iPhone, but replace the screen with a 40 inch HDTV screen and put it in your living room. What do you get? a TV a high-quality speakerphone bypassing the telcos a live window to grandma (“HDTV videoconferencing in your living room”) a stereo a movie rental kiosk a game console Now, next time…