Category Archives: Ideas

Cool things others are doing in the library or tech community that might be useful for me in the future. Or just generally things I’ve seen that I think are pretty cool.

NERCOMP Proposal Idea: Cloud Computing — Beyond Outsourcing Email

I’m considering writing a presentation proposal for NERCOMP 2010.  What I would like to talk about are two aspects of cloud computing that aren’t regularly focused on: 1) What exactly is cloud computing (because we should all be on the … Continue reading

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Attending Techy Conferences as a Female

Today I’m going to CloudCamp and it’s nerve wracking.  Why?  Well I’m a female and if you look at the list of attendees…there aren’t too many of us. I’ve been to conferences before.  At ALA though there are TONS of … Continue reading

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Amazon Reserved Instances

It looks like Amazon Web Services is moving into the hosting market.  They’ve set up something called reserved instances.  Essentially you pay a one time fee and then get a significantly lower hourly usage rate ($0.03/hour as opposed to $0.10/hour). … Continue reading

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