Going inside Sun’s Microsystems’ Project BlackBox: Now shipping to a location near you

Sun likes my company.
Over the past year, they have taken an increased interested in the technology behind our global payment and fraud prevention solutions, given the way that we have continuously stretched their mid-tiered enterprise servers and storage components to deliver sub-second financial processing to retailers. Last year, we were invited to [...]

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2007 Hoboken Accolades and Videos

As the year is coming to an end, many websites are doing their year-end “best of” reviews and recapping their content for 2007. In the past week, there were a few pieces re-released about my hometown of Hoboken. Both do a pretty good job for the city’s P.R. (see after the [...]

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Virgin Upper Class Check-In Experience Gives EOS a Run for its Money Out of Heathrow

I figured that I should take a moment to comment on Virgin Atlantic’s new Upper Class check-in arrangements at Heathrow, particularly given the popularity of my detailed review about Eos Airlines (which happens to be my most popular blog post, usually receiving a few hundred hits a day).
The new Virgin Experience out of Heathrow really [...]

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NASDAQ Opening and Breakfast with Scott McNeally

Just a quick entry to document a fun time this morning. We were invited to breakfast with Sun Microsystems Chairman and Co-Founder, Scott McNeally during the opening of the NASDAQ market. Scott was an interesting fellow (as to be expected) and had some very interesting things to say about the future of [...]

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Snowboard Season Kicks off in Killington

Killington, Dec. 2005
Originally uploaded by chrisjur.
Another year on the slopes….and I couldn’t be happier.
This year, my season kicked off about a week or two later than it has started the past few years, mainly because I did not make an early-season trip out west. However, the small delay had a big payoff.
Temperatures here on the [...]

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