So, my recent change in employment has led me to abandon my previously adored and envied Alienware laptop. By giving up my full-time position at the university in favor of a part-time adjuncting gig. I wind up losing many benefits from health insurance, to higher pay, to most egregiously - exclusive access to my own personal computer (and sweet 22" monitor) at work. To help me adjust to this loss I've decided to embark upon a personal odyssey into the wonderful world of cloud computing that has been so touted in recent techie news circles.
To begin, I've decided to attempt a completely gypsy-like approach to my whole computing career. In short, no computer is mine to own, so I'll just take the whole internet instead >:D. I'll start by defining a few parameters that will help me to evaluate the tools and services (let's just call them all gadgets for both convenience and expressive nerdy-ness) that I'll encounter on my journey:
- Maximize Portability
- Minimize Cost
- Maximize Productivity
- Maximize Security
Oooh, I just noticed that I created the basic parameters for a differential equation to evaluate gadgets! Dr. G. would be so proud! In my next few posts I'll delve into each of these for more detailed definitions and eventually create a rubric to score my gadgets in each category.
1 comment:
Ok, I have nothing profound to say, but I wish you luck in your new endeavors. I guess you'd maxed out your previous levels of nerdiness and needed to find a new arena. ;) I look forward to following along - the experiment does seem quite interesting.
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