This is great!

But what will happen to spinning hard disk drives?

The solid state is smaller, uses less power and cooling, and is also said to be 250% faster.

But what’s even more is the realization that it is also more durable, and less likely to crash….

I have always qualms because I like to move the notebook computers around, or use it in the car, in the plane, where there may be vibrations…. At least there won’t be an issue that the hard disk will crash when you are accessing your data, and you hit a road bump…

IBM tests 4-terabyte solid-state drive tech | Nanotech: The Circuits Blog - CNET News

IBM said Thursday it is testing a 4-terabyte, high-speed solid-state drive array targeted at the enterprise, as the technology giant gives its imprimatur to flash-memory-based storage.

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For people in developed countries, this is actually an opportunity:

Read — entry level tech jobs are being outsourced so if your skills are not advanced, you risked losing your job…. BUT if your skills are advanced, then it is needed to handle the many entry level people that is being offshored, and you actually will get a better pay raise….

Offshoring blamed for cash bonanaza

The IT skills shortage in the UK is being made worse by the routine offshoring of entry-level tech jobs.…

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I think the march of technology so far has been unimpaired.

Worldwide IT spending will reach $3.4 trln in 2008, an 8% increase over 2007, according to Gartner.



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Too many people can ruin a good website… or any other projects for that matter.

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IT is great that along with economic prosperity is more happiness.

That’s what its all about, is it?

Survey Says: People Are Happier

What the survey found this year is that freedom of choice and social acceptance are the most powerful forces behind national moods. “Money’s pretty powerful, but it’s not the whole story,” says Inglehart, though he maintains that a strong correlation still exists between high standards of living and happiness measures.

What is the result of the ever increasing sophistication and fragmentation of the market?

It means people have more varied interests, and events are increasingly harder to fill up as people have a thousand things to do, and so little time. Moreover, because of so many other choices, more people are less likely to suffer the inconvenience to go to yours.

Even the attraction of the world’s premiere olympic event was not attractive enough for people to go — people decided not to when faced with hassles of getting a visa etc.

Many times, we are confronted with events that seemingly have more people interested as usual, and we try our best to avoid a fill-up or standing room situation. But more often than not, the problem is the other way around — increasingly more empty seats.

Empty Seats at China’s Sellout Olympics

On Aug. 11 there were 20 competitions in 18 stadiums throughout China attended by 40,000 spectators, according to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG). Only two of stadiums were more than 90% full. Six of the venues were more than 80% full. More than half had at least 30% of seats empty.

This is a big challenge.

It is easy to teach ( even if it is time consuming), but it is difficult to impart essential knowledge. As one philosopher says it, ” what is essential cannot be taught, but it can be learned.”

How to induce that learning — and impart or transfer essential knowledge I think, there is no fix formula. Every company will have to do it in a different way.

The Knowledge Handoff

“When people leave organizations today, they are potentially taking with them knowledge that’s critical to the future of the business,” says David DeLong, a business consultant and author of Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce. Whether it’s a key client relationship, mastery of an outdated computer language, or simply knowledge about where certain files are saved on a company server, every business has stored up bits of information and knowhow that isn’t written in a manual or recorded in a training video.

Great story, and Joel has always been a very keen observer of tech and management.

The thing is - not everything that works on another situation will work on your situation.

That’s why management talent is so rare — and valuable.

Because everything depends on the situation.

How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers — Fog Creek Software — Small Business Advice

A final thought: You have to be careful when it comes to embracing the latest business idea. A single anecdote filtered through the eyes of a journalist about a new cool philosophy for running a company has to be considered in the light of other evidence, such as the way thousands of other companies are set up and operate.

The lesson is, Don’t believe everything you read in a business magazine. Not even this one.

This is a great post about managing events, and the downsides when the tries to make it difficult for organizers and exhibitors by not only being inflexible, but by using the event to ‘milk’ exhibitors for what its worth…

Always, looking at the short term will harm the long term business by not focusing on customer needs and satisfaction.

Tradeshow Startup » 5 Reasons Why I’m Thinking About Quitting The Tradeshow Business

But this post is about the bad parts. The parts that are beginning to make me wonder where I’m headed and if it’s the right business in which to stake my company’s future, my future, and most important to me - my family’s future.

There’s always something you could have done better, or foresee or avoid.

Those are the lessons when you try something new - the most important ting is you evaluate, and see what you learned, so that next time, you will be wiser and make less mistakes….

Jeff Henshaw’s Hog Blog » The year of high- and low-lights at an Internet startup

It has been an amazing year of learning through both successes and failures. Startup life embodies many of the things that I expected, like new levels of autonomy and the responsibility that goes along with it. Decisions made every day impact the viability of the business in ways I hadn’t experienced at larger companies. The demands on me from a startup were very different, including requiring more travel than I’ve ever had to do for business before.