A few weeks ago:

What started off as a nice Sunday … 

… then ended with another 3 inch snow.

It’s going to be a little difficult to get to work.

Locals told me it hadn’t snowed liked that in 50 years.

“We need to face the fact that we need to evolve. We will embrace the changes that are part of that evolution, and we will prosper in the new era of finance.” (Ken Griffin, CEO Citadel Investment Group, in his stakeholder conference call on Oct, 24th, 2008)

When Steve Ballmer explained Microsoft’s current and future actions (he called it “strategy”), I guess he wanted to convey something similar during yesterday’s townhall meeting.

Let’s see how some people master these extraordinary economical conditions, while others fall prey to panic.

Feeling sick and guessing I’ll need something of this stuff:

About disk latency, and the beauty of being able to measure everything – especially in a fish bowl:

“No matter how frustrated you might be, do not yell at your hard drive: you’ll just slow it down.” (John Murrell, GMSV 1/2/2009)