Drocketville, population 1500. Server

May 16th, 2008

Drocketville continues to grow. It’s now up to a population 1500. Commercial buildings are now starting to spring up. I’m fairly certain that one of those buildings houses a data server center, mostly likely with 100% guaranteed uptime. I can’t help but to wonder what sort of servers are being used in those server centers. Blade servers running on Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPUs, I would guess.

Online subscriptions exceed $1 billion a year

May 9th, 2008

That’s according to NPD. That’s a whole lotta World of Warcraft subscriptions. I was a tad surprised by the number 2 game, Runescape. Who plays Runescape? Lord of the Rings Online is number 3, a well-deserved spot, I think. Final Fantasy XI is number 4, followed by City of Heroes.

Drocketville, population 1000

May 6th, 2008

Drocketville, population 1000

Drocketville has finally reached a population of 1000. Now we can start building commercial buildings…