Archive for September, 2006

Five Reasons to Ride

Environment Unlimited | Travel and transport | Wheels, two. Options, limitless
Five reasons to ride

Money Owning a car costs around £3,000 a year. Bikes cost about £75. There’s also a tax break scheme (IR 176) that allows employees to buy a new bicycle tax free to use for commuting.

Fitness Driving a car burns up about 58 calories an hour. Cycling at a reasonable pace uses up more than 400 calories an hour.

Environment Car emissions = loads. Bike emissions = zero.

Parking A bike is nearly always, easier than a car, unless you’re in a railing fascist zone.

Happiness There’s plenty of evidence to show that a bit of exercise every day is likely to improve your mental wellbeing, as well as toning your thighs. The same cannot be said of driving.

 

Tesla Roadster

Environment Unlimited | Travel and transport | Batteries included
“We looked at the efforts of the major car companies … to make an electric vehicle over the past 40 years and my conclusion was that they were made by people who didn’t really like to drive.”

Or maybe people who didn’t really like to spend $100K on a 2-seater

 

Strict Confidence

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CRN | IDC, Storage, Software, Revenue | IDC: EMC, Symantec, HP All Show Storage Software Slides

CRN | IDC, Storage, Software, Revenue | IDC: EMC, Symantec, HP All Show Storage Software Slides
…HP is also starting to follow its recent storage hardware recovery with a recovery in software sales, and has been putting more feet in the street to integrate software from AppIQ, which it acquired about a year ago…

For the record: the acquisition was announced September 19 2005.

 

Techworld.com – Fibre Channel SANs: Final Days?

Techworld.com – Fibre Channel SANs: Final Days?
Practical SMI-s products are arriving courtesy of AppIQ and the associated Aperi competition