Morning View sets the tone for the day

The other day one of my data center friends came over with his dad who was visiting from San Antonio, Texas.  My cousins were raised in San Antonio and one still lives there.  I’ve gone to a few Longhorn football games with my cousin who was an all american swimmer at UT so I’ve got a chance to experience Texas as local do.

My friends Dad had made his first trip to Seattle and the weather was great this past week.  It rained one day with a bit of drizzle and this morning is a bit of clouds.  

Below is this mornings view from home.  Yes, my friends dad realized he needs to visit his son more often.

Today is a day I can spend chatting with friends on ideas to transform the industry and the cloud.  I think part of what is nice is staring out the window I can dream without worrying about bozos.  oops, HR will get mad at me for calling someone a bozo.  oh, wait there is no HR.  and, there are no bozos in the house/home office.

I’ve put my roots in Redmond, WA.  Been here for 22 years.  After 14 years at Microsoft it was time to leave.  Now I spend more of my time in the Cloud which luckily has Seattle as a hub.  Amazon, Microsoft, Google, HP, and so many more are realizing the Seattle area is a place to be work on the cloud.

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Intelligent Cooling Algorithms, Google Data Center and Honda Manufacturing

Saving energy is something everyone knows is good when you can maintain environmental conditions for equipment.  Here are two different examples.  One is Google in a data centers with its servers and another from Honda in its painting process.  

First Google’s Joe Kava explains what was done to improve the cooling system performance.

2nd is Honda explaining what it did to save 25% energy consumption in its cooling system for painting processes.

At the 1:21 mark the Honda Engineer explains the energy savings. http://youtu.be/bKLPXvZytIs?t=1m21s

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This Honda video was so good it won an award.

Honda's Environmental Short Film Series Receives National Award Recognition

Telly Award recognizes outstanding "Green/Eco Friendly" video content

6/24/2013 12:00:00 PM

 

 

The first film in Honda's Environmental Short Film Series, Paint by Numbers, has been awarded two Telly Awards in the Green/Eco-Friendly and Social Responsibility categories. The Telly Awards, now in its 34th season, honors the best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.

Honda's Environmental Short Film Series highlights some remarkable initiatives - dreamed up and developed by Honda associates - that fulfill the company's vision for reducing its environmental impact and creating a sustainable future. Paint by Numbers, the first film in the series, tells the story of how Honda engineer Shubho Bhattacharya was inspired to develop technology to reduce the energy needed to operate the auto body painting system at Honda's manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio. Auto body painting accounts for the most energy use in Honda's production process. With the help of his fellow associates, Bhattacharya conceived Honda's Intelligent Paint Technology, which has cut Honda's North American manufacturing CO2 emissions by about 10,000 metric tons per year.

"Honda associates are always dreaming up innovative ways to reduce our environmental impact," said Marcos Frommer of Honda North America, Inc., one of the producers of the film series. "Short films are a great way to share our associates' sustainability initiatives, and we're honored to receive this recognition from the Telly Awards."

A Scenario where the Cloud is not an Option, Private Communication beyond Control of Those who Want to Spy on You

One of the parts of using those free cloud apps is those who run the service can spy on you and even cut you off.  This has occurred with the Hong Kong protesters and their choice of using Firechat which allows communication to others without internet access.

 

Hong Kong protestors use FireChat to text without cell service 

Hong Kong protestors are using FireChar, a mobile messaging app, to communicate without using cellular or Internet service. Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong downloaded the app 100,000 times in just one day.

By Bryan Cronan, Staff Writer OCTOBER 1, 2014

What do the protests in Hong Kong and the festival Burning Man have in common? FireChat.

Protestors in Hong Kong are using the messaging app FireChat to communicate without using cellular or Internet service. 

Venturebeat has a guest post suggesting there will be more services that skip the cloud to support those who want to be private.

 

In 2015, popular online social networks will be reduced to serving for social branding, and a next generation of apps using peer-to-peer networking instead of cloud computing will be used for texting and image and video sharing.

The exodus from popular social networks will be accelerated by increasing revelations of both the storing and monitoring of personal communications by the government, and experimentation on users of social networks for the financial benefit of third parties. The exodus, like most all technological trends, will be led by the young and the tech-savvy, and the rest of the worlds’ users will slowly follow as technology inevitably spreads.

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What do the protests in Hong Kong and the festival Burning Man have in common? FireChat.

Protestors in Hong Kong are using the messaging app FireChat to communicate without using cellular or Internet service.