The other day I had some (rare) free time on my hands so I decided I’d have some fun and do a bit of gaming on my new 27″ iMac to break it in a bit. After a bit of internal debate I realized that I haven’t played any Quake 2 in quite some time, …
Cloud Hosting Provider Hardware Benchmarks
While running some hardware benchmarks on my new Core i7 Apple MacBook Pro, I got the idea to run the same benchmarks across several Cloud hosting platforms to see how their hardware stacks up. The tool I used to perform the benchmarks is Geekbench from Primate Labs. Now, this benchmark was designed to accurately test …
My Favorite Cartoons Growing Up
While watching cartoons with my step-daugther this weekend I got to thinking about all of my favorite cartoons I watched as a kid. Most of these are from the mid-late 80′s, back when cartoons were actually good. I’m not sure what happened, but the cartoons these days just don’t seem engaging at all and the …
Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 GeekBench Benchmarks & Review
So about a week ago I got very impulsive and dediced to upgrade from my 3.06 C2D MacBook Pro to the new Core i7 based model that was recently released. I wasn’t simply after the latest and greatest processor however, there were some other significant changes that I was eager to experience first hand, so …
Using CloudKick With Rackspace Cloud Servers – Webinar
Last week I co-hosted a great webinar with Alex Polvi (@polvi), one of the founders of CloudKick. It was a great session and I wanted to share it with everyone as it really displays the power and flexibility of leveraging Cloud hosting platforms as well as what can be done with the APIs that providers …
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