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One of the nice things about having data centers in Michigan is that we are far from hurricanes. One of our competitors, ThePlanet, have a Houston based data center that was struck by an explosion last year and is now in the path of Hurricane Ike. Below is what their hosting evangelist has to […]

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There is a commercial going around from ADHDroadmap.com that looks to be an information public service announcement but is actually an advertisement from the makers of Adderall. I find this incredibly misleading and probably a violation of the television pharmaceutical advertising laws which require a description of the potential side effects. This […]

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A personal rant…
Like Mike, I’m very concerned about Michigan. I’ve been trying to be a good citizen by helping rather than simply complaining but I’m getting very frustrated by my limited experience with government and non-profits that attempt to help the situation. I don’t mean to disrespect those involved. The people I’ve met through […]

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This video was completely made in house by Jason Grasshoff and myself at Liquid Web. We focused on making a highly professional data center tour utilizing only in house resources and controlling the presentation and editing completely. We used a jib arm and a dolly for almost every single shot, providing a high […]

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The Liquid Web ground breaking event (video above) included a five minute tour of the two existing liquid web data centers, a brief presentation by Matt and then some words from Governor Jennifer Granholm. On stage are former mayor, and all around amazing guy, David Hollister and Delta Township Supervisor Joe Drolett. In the […]

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Broken Phone

Originally uploaded by BigTravMan

This is what too much fun at work looks like… totally worth it.

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“LANSING, MICHIGAN: May 23, 2008
Liquid Web Inc, Michigan’s largest web hosting and data center company, is in the final stages of announcing the location for it’s brand new multi million dollar world headquarters facility. The new 90,000 square foot facility will have power and bandwidth capacity to support 25,000 additional managed dedicated servers and […]

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Beware of trickery on the interwebs today.

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This is a time lapsed video of the construction of 2 rows in section2 of Liquid Web’s 32,000 square foot DataCenter2.

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People are crazy for “mummified dinosaur north Dakota” on live.com today. My blog post, “Mummified dinosaur in North Dakota, Spits in face of Jesus”, from back in December received 9 comments so far today. I checked out the analytics report and found that 500 people had come to my site searching for the that […]

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New Deck Entrance

Originally uploaded by BigTravMan

I decided to spend St. Patty’s day building a new entrance way to the hot tub deck. It’s been a pretty interesting process trying to blend wood framing with the existing aluminum patio. I still have to put […]

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Minus The Bear just released a new video for the song Throwin’ Shapes. 80’s joggers find true love.

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This is a really good short understandable video about the slow decline of the US Dollar and what it means for our currency.

In other news… I made the last TechSmith post private. Some people thought that it was improper for me to comment on TechSmith since they are a Liquid Web customer. I […]

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Do you understand what this means for the money in your pocket/savings,/401k?
This shouldn’t be celebrated.

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I really liked this video. I learned a lot about stem cells and it was easy to understand.

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ScreenFlow is a screen recording application for the Mac that works great on Leopard. It produces excellent video quality, full DVD playback capture and has some pretty slick post editing tools. TechSmith is working on a Camtasia Studio for the Mac and I suppose Jing counts as a first step.
TechSmith should […]

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I just scored two tickets to the Jacks Mannequin show. Video for mix tape below.

Edit: I had to add “Dark Blue” too

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Harpers Food w/ Bugs = 10% discount

Originally uploaded by BigTravMan

Went to harpers for half off. Got a hot little bug in our food and got a slick 10% off one meal. Harper’s is the way to go.

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