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
Share on 
Ned Bellavance
Director, Cloud Solutions and Microsoft MVP: Cloud (Azure/Azure Stack) & DC Mgmt
Follow:
Let’s get the conversation started
Reach out now to begin your digital transformation
+ 16,659
ZOOM MEETINGS
+ 9,789
HAPPY CLIENTS
+ 5,075
FINISHED PROJECTS
+ 133,967,432
LINES OF CODE