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 SMBs receiving attention from 800-pound gorillas  (3/1/2010)
Small & Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) receiving focus and resources from the big guys? Yes, please...

"Microsoft isn’t the only vendor trying to gain market share in the SMB market; Google announced this week that due to the completion of its integration with DoubleClick, the company would begin offering SMB customers a version of its ad serving technology, which has traditionally only been available for large publishers."
blogs.techrepublic.com.com/datacenter/?p=2234&tag=nl.e040
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 Global availability and bandwidth testing site  (2/24/2010)
Discovered host-tracker.com, worldwide accessibility and bandwidth testing site, while reading about espn.com's recent global site outage...

host-tracker.com/check_res_ajx/4458487-0/share/
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 Meltdown of an internet personality  (2/23/2010)
This is an intriguing biography of the life of RCK, anti-MS blogger and disguised CIO of Devil Mountain. Good read...

" I am Randall C. Kennedy, former internet “shock jock” blogger for InfoWorld and current holder of the title “Most Reviled Person on the Internet, 2010 Edition.” In the past 72 hours, I’ve been humiliated, chastised and kicked to the curb by virtually every one of my contemporaries. My personal and professional credibility is shot, and my part-time career as an IT journalist is over for good. Can the urinal cake with my face on it be far behind?"
exo-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/editorial-confessions-of-internet-shock.html
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 No more lunch log?  (2/22/2010)
9 years and over 1000 lunches and NOW I'm tired of the lunch log? I know, bizarre. Anyway, I'll keep updating the site regularly with cool info, it just won't have lunch headers any more. And I reserve the right to change my mind later...
google.com/search?q=scott+mcfarlands+lunch+log
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 12" Subway Club on Wheat at Subway  (2/12/2010)
I <3 Win7, that is all...



www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
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 12" Subway Club on Wheat at Subway  (2/9/2010)
Behind the scenes look at a new browser based MMO from one of the co-founders of Flickr...



"Stewart Butterfield and his business partner Cal Henderson stared at the MacBook Pro in front of them. For nearly a year, they'd been struggling to figure out what to call the game their start-up was building. Any time a team member loaded a working version, they'd sit through a few seconds of a splash screen with nothing on it but a generic title featuring little more than the name and logo of their company. But now, the group had finally given their baby an official moniker: Glitch. And this was one of the first times the two had sat through the splash screen since plunking down a low-five-figure sum to buy glitch.com. Butterfield and Henderson, dressed casually, were hovering over the computer in the bright, east-facing front room in a beautiful Victorian vacation rental that they'd been using for a four-day company off-site in mid-January. Everyone else had already left. Energized from an intense four days of brainstorming (and maybe a coffee run to a local hot spot called the Mercury Cafe) they were running a demo of their game. Watching the bland screen load as they had countless times before, Henderson's eyes lit up."
news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10448459-52.html
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 Snowboarding - Wildwood, MO  (1/29/2010)


Jenny and I went snowboarding at Hidden Valley in Wildwood, MO over the last weekend. Mid 20's, fresh powder, it was a great time...

Hidden Valley, Wildwood, MO
Skiing, Snowboarding and Private Golf Club 1 Quad Chairlift, 2 Triple Chairs, 3 Surface Lifts, 13 Trails, Onsite Ski and Snowboard Rentals, 100% Snowmaking, Night Skiing

More pics below.
scottmcfarland.com/images/?sp=Home\2010\Winter\Snowboarding_1-29
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 12" Subway Melt on Wheat at Subway  (2/8/2010)
What, blogs are for old people?

"A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn't mean blogging is going away. Rather, it's gone the way of the telephone and e-mail - still useful, just not sexy."
apnews.myway.com/article/20100203/D9DKVFN00.html
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 12" Tuscan Chicken on Wheat at Subway  (2/4/2010)
There's a saying about the difference between men and boys and while I don't think this is exactly what it's talking about who didn't dream of a rocket powered sled when they were a kid?

"A 62-year-old Michigan man was severely burned when a homemade rocket strapped on his back exploded while he slid down a snowy hill on a sled, authorities said this week. The rocket stunt was the grand finale on Saturday during the man's annual sledding party at his Oakland County, Michigan, home, the sheriff's department said."
www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/04/michigan.rocket.man/index.html
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 12" Roasted Chicken on Wheat at Subway  (2/3/2010)
Cloud fight, cloud fight...



"With Microsoft finally releasing the Windows Azure cloud operating system to the public earlier this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) took just one day to offer new pricing reductions to re-establish the market price for cloud services. Effective February 1, AWS is reducing prices by 2 cents per gigabyte based on the tiers of usage offer. Amazon also lowered rates for data transferred out of its Amazon CloudFront content delivery network, cutting rates by 2 cents per gigabyte. And while 2 cents may not sound like much, at the highest usage levels of 1,000 terabytes, that takes the cost down by 40 percent per gigabyte."
news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10447042-62.html
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