July 9, 2009, ATLANTA--GlobalCrypto, the leader in low-cost, user-friendly cryptographic security, today announced the release of Bunkermail for highly-secure file transfer. A web-based email service, this no overhead encryption solution makes adoption easy for both IT and capital budgeting. It is available for $10 per month.

“Our clients requested an ultra-secure encryption-based file transfer system that is inexpensive, has low IT overhead and is easy to use,” said Todd Merrill, GlobalCrypto’s Founder and CEO. “Traditional file transfer systems do not offer the level of security needed for the increasing confidential data traversing the Web. Bunkermail makes cryptographic, Web-based solutions highly secure, affordable and easy to use. If you can send a web-based email, you can use Bunkermail.”

GlobalCrypto Introduces Bunkermail: Secure, Encrypted File Transfer

Venture capitalists pump new fund money into the "flavor of the moment" industries at a staggering rate. The goal is to quickly empty out an existing fund to make way for raising a new fund and to start earning the management fees. Firms only earn fees on invested capital, creating an incentive to invest quickly in "hot" industries without much thought. This roulette table investment strategy, where everyone bets on an industry in a short period of time, barely worked with telecom and the internet, but it looks like an abysmal failure with Web 2.0 and cleanteach. It seems like "0" and "00" have come up back-to-back. There are many analogies to justify the roulette strategy, like the "rising tide floats all boats" or "safety in numbers." You could also use the analogy: "lambs to the slaughter."

TheFunded.com: Hey, Fred, the VC Model is Broken!

Catalyst::TraitFor::Log::Audio - Audible debug messages for Catalyst.

Added espeak support for linux and put they on CPAN.

Catalyst::TraitFor::Log::Audio - Audible debug messages for Catalyst. - search.cpan.org

I just created a simple trait for the Catalyst::Log that uses OS X's 'say' utility to log error messages to audio, such that the computer will say them to you. My eyes tire of reading through 100s of lines of debug output, so now sometimes I will have the computer simply talk to me.

Its not in CPAN yet, but its simple enough:

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package Catalyst::TraitFor::Log::Audio;

use Moose::Role;

sub speak
{
my ($self, $txt) = @_;

return unless $txt;

system("say $txt &") if $ENV{'SPEAK'};
}

1;

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In MyApp.pm, after setup():

Moose::Util::apply_all_roles(MyApp->log, 'Catalyst::TraitFor::Log::Audio');

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In a controller: $foo='bar'; $c->log->speak('Hello world, the value of foo is $foo');

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If ENV 'SPEAK' is set, it will talk to you. Works like a charm. mst/t0m told me how to do it. Will get around to CPAN'ing it this week. Anyone aware of a cross platform library that will do this kind of speech stuff? There is no reason to stop here if this is useful to people - could play tones depending on state, warnings, etc.

Audio Debug Logs for Catalyst: Catalyst::TraitFor::Log::Audio

Konstantin Othmer, CEO of Core Mobility, is one of the most brilliant people I have ever met. Our interview ended only because the camera was full, and Kon had a company to run. We could have listened to him talk for 12 hours. In the person of Konstantin, I found the prototypical Valley entrepreneur, a person whose unbridaled brilliance led him from professional poker to Apple Computer to General Motors to venture investing in Japan to the helm of Core Mobility. Konstantin spoke about the Valley spirit, hard work and the culture of a good startup.nullnullnull

Konstantin Othmer on the Valley Advantage — TechDrawl

I'm all up in your supercomputers laughing at your datas...

Someone might actually open a coworking space here for startups. Take their survey.

A Small Orange: Atlanta Coworking Survey

Dear Richard,

When you name a song after a disease, one I was just told that I may have, you make it harder to find information about that disease when your song's search-engine-optimization beats the actual disease's information. Which is a douchebag thing to do, Richard.

Maybe name your next Song 'Pancreatic Cancer,' or 'Cirrhosis of the Liver' and you might up the mortality rate by making it harder to get good information about all kinds of diseases!

Obviously as a musical artist you may not have thought the SEO implications through, but I would encourage you to do so in the future. A less technically apt person suffering from this symptom might not be able to filter your song, and this is probably not the market you're trying to reach with your music.

Sincerely,
Blurry

Retina Blur

Today's harvest.

Today's Harvest

There is just one problem: In Atlanta, The ‘California State of Mind’ is a Cancer. It is a disease. It has no applicability here and it destroys lives. The commonly stated idea that the differences between Silicon Valley and Atlanta is one purely of scale is false, and the implication of these differences cannot be understated. There are emergent properties of a startup economy that large, that do not exist at our scale whatsoever.

I can’t say that strongly enough. In Georgia, the California State of Mind will try to kill you and will ruin your life. Its not like us. It wants to kill your family. It belongs on the terrorist watch list. Without the supportive environment of the Valley, the valley game-plan has disastrous effects on human lives.

I wrote an article for Techdrawl as part of the series I'm doing on Startup Geography. It is also up on Hacker News (presently the #1 item).

The previous piece is here.

A California State of Mind (As a Cancer on Atlanta)