🔗 Dream dinner party guests: Obama, Springsteen and Spielberg delight Barcelona restaurant staff.
Love Those Smiles. Warming the cockles of my heart
🔗 Worldwide public cloud spending heading for US$600 billion
“If you found yourself wondering why the cloud hyperscalers have chosen this moment to build in New Zealand, the answer lies in Gartner’s latest cloud forecast.”
@billbennettnz not sure you actually answer that question? I mean I get that Gartner is predicting outsized growth - and why NZ would want those data centers - but you don’t seem to offer a reason why MSoft and AWS are making the investments? Or have I read too fast?
🔗 You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup.
YUP - at least from a financial rewards perspective. But there are other considerations (as I said to a long time friend this past week) who is thinking of launching ‘StartUps Anonymous’.
Email me if you are interested in joining.
🔗 Twenty Years Ago, Apple Launched the iTunes Music Store.
The first Mac I ever owned arrived Christmas 2001. The iPod had been released and I wanted one - but it was Mac only back then. So I also ‘needed’ a Mac! It can’t have been two years before I had completely left Windoze behind.
It also means that I spent close to two years ripping CDs into the Mac to play on the iPod. (Still do that actually.)
Turns out that ChatGPT can be pretty useful. Who knew?
In case you aren’t keeping up - I have been playing around with embedding video on 🔗 john.philpin.com. I cracked it a while back - but the …
🔗 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification in Calfornia
If you are working in or around this program in California - would love to hear from you.
Harry Belafonte ‘managing’ his audience singing the Banana Boat song. 🔗 You know why it is here.
Same song - from the extraordinary Stan Freberg (we don’t hear much about him these days ) - in 1957 - with his (I think very funny) parody of the same song).
I have had three actions in ‘Things’ now for weeks. They were there to remind me to post a snippet from three podcasts that I wanted to share. The actual snipping and posting is not that …
In that 🔗 last post Siri tried to spell ‘Heroes’ … ‘Herpes’
🔗 NZ Tech Podcast: Skills shortage slows fibre installs, satellite woes, ChatGPT cheats from @billbennettnz
“Musk plans a less biased AI”
… and we clearly all believe that Musk is capable of removing bias from social media don’t we?