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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from June 2008

Why you should be napping right now

More and more studies are published every day on the exceptional benefits of napping. Today I found a great link on del.icio.us that gives a great overview of different lengths of nap times and their benefits on cognition. Naps reduce stress, increase alertness and productivity, boost memory and learning, stimulate creativity, and boost the immune [...]


Can you tell the difference between four open source project descriptions?

For some Friday fun….I’m not picking on the Apache foundation. But, see if you can guess which products are being described below. Taken from the first paragraph descriptions of four different products. The open source movement has fantastic engineers. Now what we need are some marketing minded people to devise clear and concise mission statements [...]


Eucalyptus is an open source Amazon EC2 clone

Eucalyptus is an interesting new project out of UC Santa Barbara which aims to produce an EC2 compatible private cloud in your own data center. What I really love about this idea is that instead of reinventing the wheel, they’ve decided to be API-compatible with EC2. Not only does this make adoption easier for them, [...]


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