http://clintsharp.com Technology and My Life, in Multimedia Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:46:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mr. Cuban has another post up about P2P.  I want to refine his model a bit and propose one that I think would work far better.  First, there's something fundamental that most people don't get about the Internet business.  While the Internet was designed to be a P2P medium, with ... http://clintsharp.com/down-with-p2p-part-2/ Strangely, I find myself agreeing with Mark Cuban.  I've spent some time thinking back to what I've downloaded via P2P applications.  I've used BitTorrent and previous P2P technologies to download many things over the years, but I can only think of one legitimate application, and that's Blizzard using BitTorrent for ... http://clintsharp.com/down-with-p2p/ So, if you hadn't seen the news FireAnt was acquired by Sonic Mountain (Odeo).  You can read recaps of the news on two of my favorite blog networks, NewTeeVee (run by Om Malik), and Tech Crunch (by Mike Arrington).  I came to be involved in FireAnt through my connections to Jay ... http://clintsharp.com/my-fireant-story/ Usually, we have a hard time getting shoes on Katie.  She throws an incredibly huge fit.  Today, however, we decided to take her outside for a walk and she thoroughly enjoyed it, up until the very end of course.  We've uploaded some photos to the gallery and a video for ... http://clintsharp.com/katies-walk-outside/ I just got back from spending three days at Cisco's corporate headerquarters.  I've spent a good portion of my career dealing with vendors.  I've spent days in meetings, evaluating products, specing out hardware, leased lines, and other ancillary pieces for building out networks and datacenters, but rarely have I left ... http://clintsharp.com/when-a-customer-isnt-just-a-customer/ We recently purchased a Canon SD1000 for my 27th birthday. It's an awesome, incredibly compact camera, unlike our old Nikon which was a total brick and never got used because it was inconvenient to tote around. I'm hoping we'll be taking a lot more pictures since the camera ... http://clintsharp.com/new-pictures-from-new-camera/ Once again, open source proves its usefulness. Currently we're implementing a rather large network monitoring setup from several large companies, mostly with TLAs as their company names. These cost millions of dollars to buy, hundreds of thousands of dollars to customize and equally as much to get the ... http://clintsharp.com/php-weathermap-and-cacti/ I obviously watch way more television than I should. For some reason these days I find that when I get home from a hard day's work that I prefer passive entertainment to sitting down and writing my thoughts here. This should seem obvious to anyone who has noticed ... http://clintsharp.com/nuts-for-jericho/ Over on Bram Cohen's blog (of BitTorrent fame), Mark Cuban made a comment that reminded me of a pretty common misconception about the ISP business. Mark said, in reference to Bram and attempting to make money from BitTorrent: Unfortunately for you,ISPs crack down on heavy bandwidth users, particularly uploaders and ... http://clintsharp.com/the-big-bandwidth-misconception/ Apparantly I haven't updated this blog in 3 months. My how things change. So, since my last post, I've accepted a new job in Denver and my daughter is three months older (crawling, teething, sitting up on her own, etc). I'm not exactly sure what causes me to not ... http://clintsharp.com/has-it-been-3-months-already/ The one thing I like about writing, and blogging in particular, is that it gives one a chance to air out their thoughts, in public, with the potential for feedback. However, one of the most important aspects that is easily overlooked, and this obviously applies to all journaling and ... http://clintsharp.com/product-or-service/ Amanda's Leaving Rocketboom. Here's my response to the Videoblogging list, which I thought would make a decent blog post with my insightful commentary on stardom: You're onto it Deirdre. The fact that the offers are pouring in doesn't have anything to do with talent or beauty. There are ... http://clintsharp.com/amanda-leaving-rocketboom-my-response/ This video makes me tear up. "I don't want to live on the moon" is her favorite song. She smiles everytime you sing it for her. Click here for video. [ QuickTime ] http://clintsharp.com/watch-life-happen-episode-10-shes-so-cute-when-shes-sleeping/ I live this, every day: "Design consists of creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you've done, then they know exactly what they want, but it's not what you did." - Brian Sooy http://clintsharp.com/definition-of-design/ I'm making no claims as to our talent (actually, I'll vouch for the other members of the band, they're all talented :) ), however, here is one of our originals. Please try not to be too brutal in your comments, thanks :). QT_WriteOBJECT_XHTML("http://clintsharp.com/practices/404-DaDaDa.mov", "320", "256", "", "autoplay", "false", "border", "0"); ... http://clintsharp.com/watch-life-happen-episode-9-band-practice/ I really like MXC. Don't ask me why :). Anyways, this is a very amusing video. I'm going to try to do a couple more of these little life snippet episodes that don't require much editing. I've always liked these, hopefully I won't grow tired of ... http://clintsharp.com/watch-life-happen-episode-8-i-love-mxc/ Mark Cuban has a great post about finding the right partner for your business and accepting your faults. While I don't think you should ever stop trying to improve yourself, which in my case is attempting to be more organized, I do think he's got a very valid point ... http://clintsharp.com/finding-the-right-partner-for-your-business/ For my first video in probably 6 months, this is our daughter, Katherine Elizabeth Sharp, along with appearances from the majority of the Dickens and Sharp families, who most of you have not yet seen in my videos. Expect more to come from little Katie. This is very ... http://clintsharp.com/watch-life-happen-episode-7-katie/ 03-27-06_1507.jpg Originally uploaded by Coccyx. Katherine Elizabeth Sharp was born March 27th, 2006 in Fort Smith, AR. She is 7 pounds, 8 ounces, and beautiful. http://clintsharp.com/its-a-girl/ Good post from Mark Cuban about the hypocrisy involved in having partially legalized gambling like we have in this country. Why is it legal some places and not others? Beats me. I ask the same question about why marijuana is illegal. More ramifications of a country ... http://clintsharp.com/yes-it-should-be-legal/