Archive for February, 2009

10,000 Entrecard Credits in a Month

Author: Thom

Feb 15

Last month I wrote about The Return of Entrecard to jtrigsby.com and I thought it would be a good time to report on the progress. It is three days short of exactly a month since the Entrecard widget showed up on the site and I am just under 200 EC away from 10,000. Now I really didn’t keep up with how many credits I made last time around, after all, it was kinda on auto-pilot. But 10k in a month sounds pretty good to me. Read the rest of this entry

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  • Filed under: Entrecard, nopop

    • The new.jtrigsby.com!

    Author: Thom

    Feb 11

    Hey gang, Thom here. 

    Just a quick note to let everyone know that they are NOT losing their mind, I have switched the blog to WordPress! Well, more accurately I “AM” changing… it is far from done but I’m already happier with it.

    Please be tolerant of my mess while I get things straightened out. 

    Thanks for stopping by! Bookmark and visit often, and subscribe to the feed!

    - Thom

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    • Repent! Repent! The End of the Personal Computer Is Near!

    Author: jtrigsby

    Feb 4

    Ok, so after a little title theatrics…here’s the real question. Is the rapid adoption of Cloud Computing sounding the death knell of the personal computer? I have a few definite opinions to go along with a whole litany of questions!


    What is the Cloud and Why is it Appealing?
    According to the complete compendium of human knowledge (aka Wikipedia), Cloud Computing is a concept that uses the Internet as delivery platform for applications and services hosted online. Probably the oldest example of the concept (although it was never called that back in the day) is Yahoo! Mail. The app resides on the server along with your data (email messages) and is easily accessible from any computer with a web browser (PC, Mac, Linux…doesn’t matter). Now there are countless companies offering “cloud” based services. Google is of course the biggest but hundreds of others are out there too.


    The clear appeal of Cloud Computing is ease of access from anywhere and no installed software. It is the concept of no installed software that has the choir warming up for the funeral of the PC. If I can do everything I need to do from any browser, the “PC” is now just a platform for the browser…right?

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