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Gotta Love That Openness

I have talked about mVisible before since it employees many people that have previously worked at Citrix.  Many of these people are old timers from the era of when I worked for Citrix in America. I have been following Myk

Posted in Observations

Lest We Forget

Today marked ANZAC day in Australia. Ninety two years ago Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in Turkey. Winston Churchill believed that a quick strike against Turkey would take Turkey out of the war and Germany

Posted in Australia

Sydney Airport Backstage Pass

It has been a bit quiet on the blogging front lately. Perhaps the early phase of blogging has worn off and the posts will come less frequently now. Or maybe I’ll just have to wait for more interesting things to

Posted in Australia, Sydney Office Event

Nothing for Money

How can something be valuable and yet so plentiful. That’s the question I’m faced with related to computing power. I’ve been thinking about distributed computing and how any kind of economy can be derived from it. It becomes clear quickly

Posted in Distributed Computing, Ideas, Observations

Citrix Employee Events

Citrix has always been very generous with giving its employees holidays. Even in the earliest days, Citrix sponsored company holidays to places like Key West. Perhaps it was a fairly low key celebration but the fact that the company was

Posted in Citrix History

What the Bleep Do We Know

Last year I was referred to a movie called “What the Bleep Do We Know“. Based on the title, I was not sure what kind of movie it was going to be. Earlier this year I bought a copy from

Posted in Media, Observations, Philosophy

Bad Software Day

I’ve had a bad software day. Occasionally I want to just toss the computer in the rubbish bin (Aussie/UK slang). Usually I just accept it and move on and try something different. Usually that works. Today it did not seem

Posted in Coding, Favourite, Observations, Software Evolution

Shrimp on the barbie

It’s probably one of the most famous quotes from international tourism advertising. Paul Hogan was the star of the 1984 (can you believe it?) tourism campaign for bringing tourists to Australia. There is a good summary of “Shrimp on the

Posted in Australia, Observations

Buy and Sell Jolt Power (Distributed Computing)

Yesterday I wrote about Folding@Home and how spare computer cycles can potentially make a big difference in research. I’ve be running the client on my home PC for a little while and have already come up with some other ideas.

Posted in Distributed Computing, Ideas, Vision

A Cause That Meets a Need

For a number of years I have been thinking that it is a waste to have computers turned on at home with nothing for them to do. Of course, they do work at getting email, virus check, and backup tasks

Posted in Distributed Computing, Observations
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