The Storage Muse

And you make a mistake that is rather like watching a train wreck — this is a highly relevant analogy for this post.  Well last week I was headed from Shin-Yokohama to Odawara and accidentally got on the wrong train. Four hours and a 5 minute stop in Nagoya later I was right back where [...]

Last year I blogged on Hitachi’s overall innovativeness and referenced that in 2010 we would be celebrating our 100th anniversary. Well this is the year, so Hitachi congratulations on turning 100.  As one of the few companies that has been around through the large scale electrification of the world to today where we have multi-terabyte hard [...]

If you have the chance head on over to popsci.com/archives and take a gander at their archive that has been put online.  Since both Pete and I have been talking about how to keep information stored for a really long time and specifically the 100 or 1000 year archive has come up, here is a [...]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndevil/ / CC BY 2.0

Where is the huge inflection in solid state adoption that was hyped up?  The lack of extreme adoption is perhaps due to Apple consuming the World’s supply of flash technologies for iPod, iPhone, and soon iPad, but this is just mere speculation.  (Note there is a good article at Apple Insider [...]

Preface
Due to the fact that Toyota has been going through the ringer I have been reluctant to publish this post, but as the weeks have gone on I’ve decided it is actually better that I do. To those reading this article I encourage you to remember the ringer that the US Congress put [...]

There is a very thought provoking article at NYtimes.com on the differences between privacy in the US and in the EU.  I really suggest that as technologists and engineers you take the opportunity to read the article and bone up on this and other regionally specific laws, procedures, and perceptions. Conformance to them can make [...]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benjamin-nagel/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

In this post I talk about minimizing design and also about the removal of features or facets of products as being just as important as adding them in. Well just having got a new MacBook Pro, I have to say that the things Apple has removed from the package have [...]

Chips or Pits - How do you like your content?
I thought I’d change the theme of my blogs a bit and discuss movies and consumer technology. Movies in regards to both content delivery medium such as movies and shows on DVD and/or Blu-ray, and storylines that attempt to predict the future. Of course my favorite [...]

Over at the American Scientist web site is a rather lengthy, but fascinating article on information archival and preservation.  I highly recommend that you take the time to read this article as  for me it really hit home as I transition from an old to a new laptop.  Basically I start having all of these [...]

If you are watching the Winter Olympics going on now in Vancouver BC, odds are you are seeing some or all of it because of Hitachi.  This is due to the fact that Hitachi Kokusai’s SK-HD1000 HD video cameras are being used by the Canadaian Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, the official Canadian broadcaster of the 2010 Olympic [...]