Photographs


I wanted a photo with me and India's 'high speed rail'. I made some kind of mental error thinking that this train would be more like the Ave in Spain or the ICE in Germany. Oh no! It is expr ...

I wanted a photo with me and India's 'high speed rail'. I made...

Josh, for some reason I admit I don't understand, was fascinated with the scale of this wall.

Josh, for some reason I admit I don't understand, was fascinated...

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

Ramparts-2.jpg

Ramparts-2.jpg

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

The top of our hotel - Om Tower - was a revolving restaurant. I don't think I had ever been in one. It offered good Indian food and a nice view of the whole area as we ate.

The top of our hotel - Om Tower - was a revolving restaurant....

This is the Karnataka state government building. My driver Raju took me a on short tour of the sights of Bangalore before I departed for Delhi.

This is the Karnataka state government building. My driver Raju...

Another photo that seems to capture what India is always like - people everywhere at high densities. I often found myself wondering where they think they will put more people as there isnt a ...

Another photo that seems to capture what India is always like...

Magic Makes the Rules Obsolete

It was the start of 2009. I had managed to sell my house in Hoboken in an incredible down market for a serious multiple above what I paid for it, I managed to bargain down the new place to a reasonable cost, I had an exit strategy from a stagnant job and was in the [...]

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Information technology professional with 19 years of experience leading the design, development, and implementation of business software and infrastructure. Frequently leading projects that are critical to business success and high profile in both startups and mature corporations. Advanced technical acuity [...]

Comments on Public Clouds

An interesting article appeared in the press this morning. This redux is that the three major public clouds from Amazon, Google & Microsoft are not up to enterprise or even near enterprise levels in terms of SLA, monitoring, and performance.

This is not really news for those of us who have “played around” with these [...]

Apps & Servers In The Cloud

In the last 6 months I have spent time figuring out how to get java applications running in the cloud – EC2, private, or otherwise. While there seems to be a great deal of progress in making this easier for me as the developer/deployer there still seems to be a problem with the way many [...]

Fall Trip Around Puerto Rico

After a whirlwind tour of Italy and a few days at work, I took off for Puerto Rico early Friday morning.

When I arrived at the airport the lines were immense and I had no idea if I would make it on the jet in time. It left at around 4am for a 7am departure, [...]