Monty Gray: Archive

Lively crowd watching Spain/Germany in Heidelberg

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Jul 7th

Angel Island

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Jul 4th

Costanoa

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Jun 6th

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Mar 18th

March Madness - San Jose

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Mar 18th

St Patty's

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Mar 18th

San Francisco

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Feb 15th

Go Niners!

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Dec 7th

At the UW vs Cal game

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Dec 6th

Opus One

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Nov 7th

View of SF from Tankhill park

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Oct 26th

The Dipsea (Muir Woods)

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Oct 25th

Journey at BR Cohn Winery

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Oct 5th

49ers first Tailgate

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Sep 21st

Some good color from National Football Post on the...

Sep 19th

Oracle Has Customers Over a Barrel - BusinessWeek

via businessweek.com Supplier power is undoubtedly getting stronger in the enterprise software space. This is a classic example of where a disruptive business model (i.e. cloud computing) has the potential to make a material change. This article also has some good summary metrics on Oracle’s M&A impact to its business.. Posted via web from Monty’s...

Sep 11th

Yosemite

Here are a few panoramic pictures created with the iPhone app “AutoStitch”. We hiked from the Yosemite Valley floor to Merced Lake on Friday, then to Sunrise Camp on Sat, and finished at Lake Tanaya (Tuolumne Meadows) on Sunday. I highly recommend the High Sierra camps as a way to experience Yosemite! «HiketoNevadaFalls.jpg» «SunriseHighSierraCamp.JPG» ...

Aug 17th

Glacier Nat Park

Avalanche Lake. Beautiful day! Posted via email from Monty’s posterous | Comment »

Jul 26th

Big Fork, Montana

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Jul 24th

Jul 21st

A US$1m wine book weighing 30kg is set to be... →

While I do love wine.. I am positive there are better ways to spend $1M.

Jul 20th

“The problem with Joe Cassano wasn’t that he knew he was wrong. It was that it...”

– Michael Lewis on A.I.G. | vanityfair.com

Jul 16th

Phillies!

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Jul 9th

Prepare for vuvuzelas at next year's World Cup -... →

I need to get one of these.

Jun 30th

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Structure 09: SAP Aims to Glue Together the Hybrid Enterprise Cloud

Jun 26th

Oracle's Ellison talks of big plans for cloud...

In its press release, Oracle reported “on demand” revenues. The company earned $779 million from on demand services in 2009 (its fiscal year ends on May 31), up from $694 million in the previous year, an increase of 12 percent. via blog.internetnews.com Posted via web from Monty’s posterous | Comment »

Jun 25th

Clear Lanes Are No Longer Available →

Just received the official email tonight. I am not terribly surprised by this announcement, but it is definitely one service I am going to miss… back to the end of the line .

Jun 23rd

“The first rule of data centers is: Don’t talk about data centers.”

– Magazine Preview - The Architecture Issue - Data Center Overload - NYTimes.com

Jun 11th

Joe Cocker in Sonoma @jazzfest

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May 23rd

Baseball Tickets Too Much? Check Back Tomorrow -... →

This is pretty interesting. In baseball it could make a lot of sense given the number of games along with a variety of factors (opposing pitchers, team, record, weather, day of week, give-aways, etc). It will be interesting to see how much buying patterns change if at all as this gets widely adopted. Essentially, to what degree is there price elasticity to the baseball fan?

May 19th

The Dead

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May 15th

“When I played quarterback, I always wanted a receiver like (me). I wanted a...”

– Michael Crabtree

Apr 27th

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McKinsey: What Matters: Getting history right →

I agree that a Great Depression is much less likely today than in the post World War period. This article does a good job of describing the political drivers of the Great Depression. While today’s recession is not so much politically driven, we still face a wide ranging failure of financial instruments independent of any single economic driver (i.e. Word War). As such, the main question...

Apr 2nd

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Venture Backed Exits - Q1 2009 →

Not surprising at all, but this chart does a good job of depicting the current economic impact on the VC industry.

Apr 2nd

Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling new science |...

via ted.com Just came across this video from the TED conference. His description of the financial crisis is scary while the discussion of evolution is quite fascinating. Posted via web from Monty’s posterous | Comment »

Mar 25th

Beat Philly!

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Mar 21st

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Mar 18th

Liftopia’s Ski-Lift Ticketing System Begins To... →

A variable pricing model applied to ski lifts. Could be interesting. As long as this does result in lower fees for the consumer (relative to traditional prices) then it could work. I like how this is attempting to leverage the optimal pricing model for the ski resorts. The main difference between the ski resorts and the airlines is that the airlines have a huge variable cost with each flight. ...

Mar 11th

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Dow below 7000 for the first time since 1997.

Mar 4th

SAP CTO: Coghead's engineers will help solve SaaS... →

Very interesting technology for SAP (disclaimer: I worked on the deal). This is the article that I have been forwarding to people asking me about the deal.

Feb 25th

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