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July 2006 - Posts

• Flash storage and the 80/20 rule

  Flash memory based storage is starting to make serious headway into the PC realm, and with good reason. It's far more reliable. It can be squeezed into many different form factors...from 2.5" notebook drives all the way down to MicroSD cards. It consumes Read More... Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 3:26 AM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology

• Optimize your life #8 - Read faster

  Well, that's an interesting title for an article. While I'm at it, I'll advise you to eat less. And make more money too. Actually, odds are that if you are reading this blog post you probably read pretty quickly already. But there are some people who Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 1:34 AM by rkuo | 1 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Bill Gates and education

  The funny thing about computers is that, despite all of the time they save people, they really can't help us make big decisions yet. Peter Drucker made similar observations many years ago...starting with the famous quote "The computer is a moron". The Read More... Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:42 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Current events

• Buying notebooks

  I read Jeff Atwood's decision making process on buying a laptop (he picked an Asus W3J) with great fascination today. I suppose one of the main reasons anyone becomes interested in something often has to do with seeing parallels and similarities in one's Read More... Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 4:43 PM by rkuo | 2 Comments Filed under: Gadgets