Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Content Management System Advice?

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Dear Lazyweb, If you've not seen the OpenGamma website yet, you'll note that it could best be described as a "holding page....
Sunday, January 03, 2010

Chris Dixon's Startup Requirements: My Perspective

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I like Chris Dixon. I've never met him, though I hope to, but his writing across Twitter , his Tumblr log and his blog are so evocativ...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Confluence, iSCSI, NetApp, Flexiscale, Fail

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We've been hosting the FudgeMsg website using Confluence (and mad props for the free Open Source license by the way!) on a VM hosted ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

2009 Predictions Revisited

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As promised, I'm coming back to revisit my predictions for 2009 to see how I've done. As predicted by virtue of my fuzziness, I was...
Monday, December 14, 2009

My Open Letter to the European Competition Commissioner

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Monty urged me to help save MySQL . I couldn't possibly refuse such an offer. Dear Competition Commissioner: I am the Chief Executive...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Document Stores: Please Give Me A Standard API

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Although I'm a long-standing RDBMS guy (having worked on Broadbase, Kidar, and Eigenbase/LucidDB [indirectly through Kidar and Broadbase...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Giving Thanks 2009

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I wrote this on a plane over the Atlantic heading to Chicago to visit my family for Thanksgiving, followed by a trip to San Francisco (my sp...
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