Work Shifting – Welcome to Your New Office in the Cloud Ok, let me get this straight: only 29% of small business owners had ever heard of Cloud Computing!:-( And of those, only 26% could describe what Cloud is? If my math is good (29% x 26%) that means that only 7.5% of small business owners know what Cloud is! One of the greatest equalizers of our time, and small business owners don’t know what…
There’s just a little transportation humor that you need to go with your cup of joe in the morning. (Or you McCoffee or SBUX latte on the way.) Both of these come from Sunday, August 14, 2011. The comics, where all news worth knowing comes from: First is Non-Sequitur (Whiley) on road signs: http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2011/08/14 I think that last panel is what they replaced the “Entering the City Limits of ” sign with. The last one is Dilbert (Adams)…
Ft. Lauderdale Tops List Of Most Dangerous Cities To Drive We in Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando win the dubious honor of being the worst for traffic (traffic fatality statistics). Ouch. Seems like telecommuting might be a more sustainable way to live… (Sorry about the pun!:)
There has been a painfully slow move to NatGas in the US, even though we appear to have centuries worth of it using new fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques. The one holdup, kinda, is being blamed on the possible environmental impact from gas drilling. (As if it could be worse than oil with its BP Gulf and Exxon Yellowstone spills in the last two years.) So the EPA is conducting a few big studies. With…
There’s a really cool oil and cleaning product company that produces bio-oils and cleaning products from plant and animal byproducts. Animal fats seem to be a big part of the oil. It has a patent pending technology using nanotechnology that they describe as: “superior performing ULTIMATE BIODEGRADABLE* motor oil made with American grown base oils and the power of nanotechnology to reduce wear, lower friction and provide more horsepower while being safe for the environment.”…
The Japanese reactors are far worse than they are telling us. It might take 100 years to clean it up, if/when they get the reactors under control. CNN news on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXwI0HM9BYM (~5min) Decontamination processing is ongoing: http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110624_7822.php In the meanwhile nuclear waste going to Yucca Mountain is not an option. So we continue to have no energy policy related to US nuclear power (and the nuclear waste). “For nearly thirty years, NRC waste-storage requirements have remained…
