Different by Design
Observations, rants and random musings - don’t pay for my writing. I’m not set up for it and I am not looking for it. I share because God prompts me.
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A Tribute to Trump (opens the original)
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I have no interest in writing another article about Donald Trump.There are already enough of those.This is about something older than American politics: the desire of powerful people to turn themselves into monuments—and what happens to those monuments after they are gone.The monument to oneselfA monument built by a grateful nation says:We remember you.A monument built by the person being honored says:Remember me this way.<spa
The Great Data Debate (opens the original)
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The Data Center Problem Is Not Whether We Need ThemA few years ago, I might have thought of a data center as a rather specialized piece of infrastructure. A large building somewhere, filled with computers, servers and cooling equipment, doing mysterious things for companies I probably had heard of but never thought much about.That perception is becoming harder to maintain.Data centers have become a political flashpoint. Communities debate them. Politicians campaign on them. Environmental groups
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