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Living In THE CLOUD

Cloud computing has become a hot term these days, with the onslaught of NetBooks - people are accepting the concept of Information/Software/Apps as a Service (SAAS, IAAS, AAS). I've been talking about this for a long time, actually it was Larry Elison of Oracle who talked about this first - he used the term, Dumb Terminals. Bill Gates certainly rubbed it off. But today, If we have enough computing power and bandwidth - we can easily live the Cloud Lifestyle.

I've recently purchased the MacBook Air (after switching a year ago to Mac) - and I'm reorganizing my life around this. This means simplifying a lot of things. Chucking out apps that I don't need, reorganizing my desktop (real one). Decluttering and eliminating stuff, applications, subscriptions etc is essential to this.

Furthermore, I'm also learning alot from experts like Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion.com and building my own knowledgebase of cloud computing, living a nomadic life (at avcion.pbwiki.com). One thing I've learn from my previous consulting profession, was that you should be very familiar with your tools if you really want to use them efficiently.


To end this, I'm adding a photo on Steve Jobs, yes life was simpler - it still can be!:


CAPTION FOR PHOTO

"This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had."..... Steve Jobs.
Photo credit: Diana Walker

Comments (4)

Jan 06, 2009
and... might I add Steve... a MacBook Air!
Jan 06, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
Do not forget your own private mediawiki in the clouds...
Jan 07, 2009
JF, I already have a pbwiki, i think it suffices. Do you have a better experience with mediawiki?



Jan 08, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
Oh yes... Mediawiki is far much better... Community of users and developers is many times bigger, that makes the product much better now and in the future. Second it makes your learning curve much more profitable for you, as there are so many wikis running mediawiki where you will be easy to use... So when it comes top of your uplist to think of switching to mediawiki, tell me, we could help you, our learning curve started in 2004 and we use and manage numbers of mediawiki both publics and privates... see you soon

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