Category: TAG Podcasts

The Markets Hate the Slowing of Quantitative Easing and The Value of Renewable Energy in the US: Guide Rock Weekly Market Commentary Jun 17 – FT032

Like a host at a dinner party, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) put the performance of the U.S. economy on the table last week to be gnawed over by world markets. When the IMF presented its annual review of the world’s largest economy, it stated that: “Despite some improvements in economic indicators, particularly in the… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Tom Ryden, VGo Cofounder and COO Talks Robotic Telepresence Solutions for Education and Healthcare and IBM Watson is Big Data – HT122

Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson and VGo’s cofounder and COO Tom Ryden for Home Tech episode #122. In show 117, we spoke about the VGo Telepresence robot.  Christian was using one of these devices back in the spring to remote into NASA for his work there.  Tom was good enough to… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Markets Wobble on Quantitative Easing, Are the Markets like Sports? Guide Rock Weekly Market Commentary Jun 10 – FT031

Like a funhouse mirror, investors’ concerns about whether and when the Federal Reserve will begin to end its quantitative easing program contorted market responses to economic news last week. Unexceptional economic reports were treated as good news and pushed stock markets higher; strong economic reports were treated as bad news and pushed stock markets lower.… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Virtualizaton, Citrix ZenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Disk2vhd, Openfiler, VMware Workstation, ESXi Hypervisor -HT120

Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.com and Jay Moore for Home Tech episode #120.  Mike started the conversation off with some discussion around Citrix’s ZenServer after having trouble installing ESXi.  Jay Covers his work with ESXi and both home and at work. Join us for the show live each Thursday… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Quantitative Easing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is it Good or Bad and What is the Best Index to Follow? Guide Rock Weekly Market Commentary Jun 3 – FT030

The Fed will taper… the Fed will not… the Fed will taper… the Fed will not… Last week, investors and traders obsessed about the Federal Reserve and the possibility it might begin to end its quantitative easing program. The Fed began its first round of quantitative easing during the financial crisis in an effort to… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Virtualizaton, VMware vSphere 5.1, ESXi Hypervisor, VMware Player, Oracle VirtualBox, Hyper–V, Drobo 5N for Jim – HT119

Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson, Kyle Wilcox (@kylejwx) and Paul Baran (@Tinkererguy) for Home Tech episode #119.  We want to welcome Kyle to his very first Home Tech appearance! In the first of a 3 part Series on Virtualization, we will cover some of the VM setups of guys from our… Click for more / Podcast Player>