Sometimes, you just can’t beat an olde-worlde paper notebook. Highly portable, great screen resolution, excellent, intuitive user interface and infinite battery life.
Only problem: it’s hard to back up. On the other hand, it’ll still be readable in 200 years. Which is more than can be said for any of my digital data.
This Google video provides a company-approved tour of one of its data centres (aka server farms). I’m writing about the environmental impact of cloud computing at the moment, and rediscovered it when going through the research files for my book. It provides an interesting glimpse of the heavy engineering that lies behind cloud computing.
