Today Yahoo opened its new data center, officially called the “Yahoo Computing Coop”, unofficially called the “Yahoo Chicken Coop”.  In the Buffalo/Niagara Falls suburb of Lockport, NY. Why?  The basic architectural principle is based on the Chicken Coup.  Using louvers to take in cool air to cool down the server farm (pun intended). It is [...]

Everything used to be black… then several years ago Green became the new black… and it stuck. Its cool to be green, its hip to be cool and all that jazz. Now I propose Rust is the new Green. Yes, I capitalized those words intentionally because as you know while black is just a color [...]

As you may know whenever mentioning Nikola Tesla a great deal of lore surrounds the stories.  I believe much of it to be true especially considering the great inventions we do know for sure (alternating current) and that the US government took all of his papers after his death. You may also know that Nikola [...]

Ask an eight year old kid who Mark Zuckerberg is and they will text you back, the guy who owns facebook. Man do I wish I were him, facebook is projected to be worth in the billions (with a b) after Microsoft bought 1.6% in 2007 for $240 million. Actually the man I wish I [...]

Another car less expensive than the Regal, he’s going to use his funny math again! Not this time folks, I’m just going to use straight up real math this time!  According to a study by NPR the average American commute is 25 minutes each way. (I live in Buffalo, which was one of the lowest [...]