Data Center Hub

One of my favorite sites for quality free images is pixelio.de. I have posted some of my data center and other photos there under the profile AVATAVA. The photos are of the US Wireless Louisville, Kentucky and the Columbus Ohio Data centers. The Louisville Data Center is no longer in existence and the Ohio data center is no longer part of US Wireless.

The web site is in German only- even if you don’t speak German you should still be able to figure out the photos. Over the next few weeks I will upload more photos to the site under the key word rechenzentrum. All the photos are free for commercial and private use (copyright retained) as long as they are not used in association with illegal or immoral activities.

Someone recently asked the staff at F-Secure® why there is an uncanny resemblance between their official logo and the logo used for Evil, Inc. in the Austin Powers movies. F-Secure officially denies any association with Evil, Inc. The resemblance is apparently coincidental.

F-Secure had the same situation with the original name for the company, which was Data Fellows, Inc. Once they opened an office in California however, they were mystified as to why they kept getting phone calls intended for Date-A-Fellow Of course this was also coincidental. The staff at F-Secure have a sense of humor about it though. For what it’s worth, I liked their original name better than their present name.

When I first came to Florida in 1972 I was told there weren’t any crocodiles here, only alligators. Perhaps that was true in Martin and Palm Beach Counties for 1972. Today, there is a rebound of crocs in Collier County. Take a look here: Crocodiles in Naples, FL.

It’s about time to give up the excuses and actually start creating a web log of my own. My name is Bill Laakkonen. I am the founder of Im1 Web Hosting, now in our tenth year of service. Over at Im1 we have helped others run their own ‘blogs’ since before they were called blogs (among other things). We (Ryan Williams and I) started the world’s first hosting service dedicated to running the code created by slashdot, called slashhosting.com. The domain name incidentally was the first name ever registered in Tucow’s OpenSRS registry.

Slashcode is not the challenge that it used to be for installation and as a result, we don’t do much new stuff at slashhosting.com anymore. Just about any regular hosting account can easily run software such as WordPress with a simple 5 minute installation.

So here I am. Finally. Oh, by the way, the opinions and views expressed by me here are mine personally and do not represent my employer.