Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: Extreme Gerbil Action!
Episode 84
Amazon HQ2, GMOs for Mosquitos, and a One-Two Punch for Oracle
Hosts
Ned Bellavance, Director of Cloud Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Coordinator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/
Longer Topics
THE CAMEL IN ALLENTOWN
All that hype about where Amazon’s next headquarters is finally over. And city they picked is actually two cities
- When Tesla did its Gigafactory deal in Reno, it did it on the back of 1.3 billion dollars in tax breaks.
- Send a giant cactus
- Atlanta suburb offering to name part of a town after the company
- About all this Amazon HQ2 begging, the Maryland Transportation Secretary showed impeccable fiscal responsibility, saying, and I quote, “For all practical purposes, it’s a blank check.”
- The evidence has been clear for ages that, for the towns that give them, corporate tax breaks don’t work.
Bill Gates vs Environmental Groups: Showdown at the UN
- Gates foundation has released an open letter
Lightning Round
- No, your iPhone X is not going to explode
- The new Google Pixel feature “Night Sight” is so insane that it is featured on the AI Google Blog
- Windows 10 1809 is messing with my stuff
- New emoji released with iOS 12.1 and MY GOD THE BAGEL FINALLY HAS CREAM CHEESE
- Meltdown and Spectre – We’re baaaaaaack!!!
- Poor Larry gets the 1 & 2 from Amazon and GAO
Music Credits
Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Ned Bellavance
Director, Cloud Solutions and Microsoft MVP: Cloud (Azure/Azure Stack) & DC Mgmt
Ned Bellavance is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Starting as a humble helpdesk operator, Ned has worked up through the ranks of systems administration and infrastructure architecture, and in the process developed an expansive understanding of IT infrastructure and the applications it supports. Currently, Ned works as the Director of Cloud Solutions for Anexinet in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, specializing in Enterprise Architecture both on-premise and in the cloud. Ned holds a number of industry certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and Cisco. He also has a B.S. in Computer Science and an MBA with an Information Technology concentration.
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