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What you’re looking at is a picture of my great-great-great-great paternal grandfather Edward Hopkin’s tombstone, located near Neath or Margam, Glamorganshire in Wales. Based on my research so far, he and his wife lived in the area their entire lives, never venturing outside the area, during the first half of the 19th century. Written at the bottom of their tombstone are the words: "ni cheir hi er aur periag ni ellir fwyso fi...

Derrick Harris posted about IDC, who finally released a Big Data market sizing report. The headline from the post is “IDC says big data will be $24B market in 2016; I say it’s bigger.” Research firm IDC is predicting a big data market that will grow revenue at 31.7 percent a year until it hits the $23.8 billion mark in 2016. That’s a big number for a relatively new market, but it only tells part of the story of where big data technology...

Mike, our engineer at SiliconANGLE and #theCube, alerted me this morning that the Free Music Archive is having a contest to replace the Happy Birthday song. The Free Music Archive wants to wish Creative Commons a Happy Birthday with a song. But there’s a problem. Although "Happy Birthday To You" is the most recognized song in the English language and its origins can be traced back to 1893, it remains under copyright protection in...

This really doesn’t bode well for whatever comes out of the negotiations.

One of the things that drove my political inclinations on this election cycle was the runaway spending and how addicted we are to our entitlements and military security. This doesn’t have anything to do with political ideology, although if you attach yourself too firmly to political ideology, you’re probably not going to like this post. Of course, the “solutions” on fixing our economic and fiscal crisis are “obvious.” The left says...