Bill Watt’s Blog

I just bought a 500 GB external backup drive for less than $160 retail… that is awesome! It comes with one touch backup software so I can set it up and alice can hit a button when she has updated itunes purchases or whatever and make sure and capture it and I can schedule weekly backups too. Very simple. Very nice.

My first computer only had floppy drives and 64k of RAM. I’m so jealous of my nephews mainly cause they’re going to see really cool technology by the time they hit high school AND they have an uncle who might not be around every weekend but will spoil the crap out of them with technology. I can pretty much guarantee they’ll be the only middle school kids with their own DVR and slingboxes (or current equivalents) for when they head to camp.

One of the things I’ve really enjoyed about working at eBay has been some of the folks I’ve met. In many ways I’m a little surprised at the number of people I’ve presented to, been exposed to, or worked with given the niche business we operate relative to the Core marketplace. Sure, I think the FAIM team is super smart but these guys are solving problems we never got to in our long and storied adventure.

Check out this video interview. Even if you’re not a geek, this is really easy to follow and you’ll learn something.