Rust Valley

Those of you who aren’t network geeks might not care but the core of the Internet has been crumbling for a while now.  The basic problem is that the ratio of network speed at the edge compared to network speed at the core has been growing far too fast, until now it’s basically the same:  [...]

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As I mentioned previously, Obama swung by Pittsburgh to talk about money.  The press coverage of the event, which I’ll admit that I found on Babbledog suggests that he thinks Pittsburgh is a model for some kind of national economic progress:
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on Thursday told invited guests and a panel of [...]

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Six local companies recently received funding, housing and mentoring at the AlphaLab facility on Pittsburgh’s South Side.  Cynthia Closkey previously wrote about Alpha Lab back in March when the project of InnovationWorks was previously announced.  As Cynthia pointed out back then, what is useful about AlphaLabs is that it focuses on web- and software-related ventures
My [...]

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Obama is scheduled to lead an economic summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Thursday.  Which is kind of cool.  Except I can’t go, ’cause I’m not living in Pittsburgh yet (next week!).  That’s OK, because you can’t go either:  it’s invite-only and if you’re reading this page, you weren’t invited—trust me.
I’m interested to see how [...]

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Google is at it again.  They are taking the bread and butter of someone else’s business and giving it away for free in order to further their massively profitable ad-selling business.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google will offer a free tool to measure web traffic targeted at helping advertisers select the right [...]

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Pittsburgh is a friendly town. I can already tell.
Over memorial day weekend I breezed into town to try to get the new house settled. The main stuff:

get shades up in the girls’ rooms so that they could sleep without the sun waking them up
meet the neighbors
clean up the lawn
buy a fridge

That [...]

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We’ll start with food.
Pittsburghers seem unimpressed with Pittsburgh when it comes to food.  This may be a combination of the fact that the city is less diverse than many and closer to the midwest than one might wish.  But in my few times in the city so far, and my research, I have to say, [...]

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