I don’t have much to add to Harper’s post on our TechCocktail presentation.
But I can add the rough math we did to compare costs for label printing:
Big Vendor solution:
Ginormous Canon Printer 110ppm - $150,000
(Redundancy? $300,000.)
Service - $1000/month
Print cost per page - $0.005
Part Availability - 10-12 days
skinnyCorp solution:
3 x HP 9040n’s 120ppm - $9,000 (and already […]
I am consistently amazed at how bad customer service can be, but I am especially amazed at how bad it can be around the most basic functions.
Beth’s wallet was stolen a few weeks ago, and the credit card we had associated with the Comcast auto-deduct was replaced with a new card. For some reason, […]
About a month ago, Harper asked me to do a presentation with him at Ignite Chicago. It looked like fun, so I said yes. But then we failed completely at planning anything for it, and it came down to us throwing something together at the last minute today. We found out we […]
IT infrastructure is my thing. Right now, I think there are 5 smart choices that any IT staff can implement with almost no effort at all.
1. Use Google Apps.
If you are using anything else for email right now, you’re losing out. If you are using anything else for calendaring right now, you are losing […]
I’m reading a book called Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol (read it there). It is a brutal look at the American public education system, and how it reflects racial inequalities and the inequities of how our tax dollars are applied to the school system. It covers the Chicago Public School system circa the […]
Sometimes the largest solutions seems to have some of the smallest problems. Recently, a friend of mine and I have been talking about small wind installations. We have looked at the costs of developing a small vertical axis wind turbine system for installation in the countryside of Illinois. The largest expense in […]
Check out this talk at MoMo Amsterdam by Jaiku’s Jyri Engeström.
Jyri identifies the increasing number of sites on the Alexa top 100 based on user generated content as what he calls a “megatrend swiping over web services.” He lays out three topics that he covers in this talk:
1. The case for social […]
2 months ago, I wrote about Intel’s counteractive response to the One Laptop Per Child program. In the face of the negative press around their actions, and more likely the positive press around the AMD 50 x 15 program (and in turn Negroponte’s project), Intel has taken a step toward collaborating on the OLPC […]
Just got back from the latest tech cocktail, enjoyed most conversations, including an extended philosophy session with the ravenously beautiful Ron May. Saw a lot of old faces and an even greater number of new ones.
If I met you there, drop me an email.
A while back, I mentioned that I went to the Daley Urban Forum at UIC. The final panel of speakers included Sarah Dunn from UrbanLab. She spoke about a design project that she was working on called Growing Water.
In her presentation, she said that 20% of the Earth’s fresh water is in the […]
