Who are these models and what have they done with Steve Ballmer? | The Social - CNET News.com
“Oh, well–thanks for the invite and the free Stella Artois, Microsoft. I had a decent time, and I know you guys in Redmond like to put on a big spectacle, but seriously it’s OK to invite nerds to [...]
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Amazon MP3 Downloader
Originally uploaded by sogrady
Given that I’ve been waiting months for its release, you’d think that I’d be more excited about the availability of the Amazon MP3 Downloader client for Linux. And I was, initially.
For the one or two of you that don’t [...]
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Peep - an Open Twitter Server - RussellBeattie.com
interesting little project. as senor aqualung mentions, it might be useful for some of the use cases we’re noodling around internally.
(tags: jabber python server twitter russellbeattie via:aqualung)
hyku | blog - Why I Sold Out - by business blog and social media consultant Josh Hallett
a nice explanation from Josh [...]
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Let’s get a couple of things out of the way before I begin. I know Matt Asay, I like Matt Asay, and I respect Matt Asay. I am, in fact, slated to moderate a panel for him at his upcoming OSBC conference.
But the one area in which we’ve never seen eye to eye is [...]
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Too big to use utility computing ?
precisely. computing as a continuum.
(tags: amazon aws cloud utility computing ec2 enterprise s3)
Stating the obvious at Churbuck.com
i agree. though it depends, of course, on context, these are not impossible questions. interesting discussion too. not entirely sure how Churbuck became Chuck, though.
(tags: davidchurbuck dialogue enterprise listening feedback)
So, That’s Why Safari’s [...]
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cool sky
Originally uploaded by sogrady
Been a long, complicated week here at the home office. Some highs, some lows, the usual.
The good news is that it’s Friday, the Sox are on TV tonight, and I don’t have to get on a plane tomorrow morning. In other [...]
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Andi Gutmans’ Weblog: Zend Framework to be part of Ubuntu!
should be interesting to see what this does for Zend’s uptake
(tags: zend framework andigutmans ubuntu multiverse)
Boycott Novell » Mark Shuttleworth’s Stance on Mono Inside Ubuntu
Mark on the situation with respect to Mono and patents
(tags: markshuttleworth mono patents ubuntu)
rc3.org — The future of the exurbs
interesting piece. i’ve [...]
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SXSW Showcasing Music Torrents
sweet - 3GBs of fresh new music. can’t wait to bring this down.
(tags: music torrent sxsw mp3 bittorrent via:simon austin)
AWS, uptime, downtime and information at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
wherein Chris essentially says exactly what i would have re: the Amazon outage, only more succinctly and eloquently
(tags: chrispetrilli amazon outage sla uptime [...]
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Back in January, I publicly lamented what I regarded as the sorry state of laptop computing. In a continuation of a running theme, I pondered the lack of true premium notebooks; hardware that commanded a premium price in return for premium features.
More specifically, I took aim at the gang over at Lenovo, saying:
What of [...]
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Conspiracy buffs may feast on JFK documents | Oddly Enough | Reuters
coming soon to a theater near you
(tags: jfk conspiracy documents history)
“Improving” Twitter | alexking.org
obviously i agree. as i’ve written before, i wish more Twitterers were less verbose in their communication, but Twitter still encourages the opposite.
(tags: twitter mevthee alexking)
Planning for Ubuntu 8.10ish - The [...]
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vegas = lines
Originally uploaded by sogrady
A few weeks back, I arrived at SFO even earlier than normal (read > 2 HRs) in a effort that failed miserably to stand by on an earlier flight back to Denver. Facing several down hours to kill at the [...]
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Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain - New York Times
interesting. might the gender appetite for technology be reversed in social networking and otherwise?
(tags: gender socialnetworking design)
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Portals - WSJ.com
bit of a jump to the “next Google” bit, but interesting nonetheless
(tags: rad automation enterprise google monitoring via:kitchensink)
RAD Lab - RAD Lab
“Our vision is to enable one person to invent and run the next revolutionary IT service, operationally expressing a new business idea as a multi-million-user service over the course of a long [...]
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I’m a bit late with these notices, and given the profile of the developers in question not to mention the respect that I have for both, the positions could well be filled already, but just in case I wanted to note that their respective firms are hiring.
Adrian Holovaty (EveryBlock) Position: Python Screen Scraper (Chicago)
If [...]
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Announcing the Hadoop Summit at Yahoo, March 25th, 2008 (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!)
bummed i can’t make this, should be very interesting
(tags: hadoop yahoo event conference)
po-ru.com: Bleeding-edge ffmpeg on Ubuntu Feisty
used this to get ffmpeg built such that i can transcode from ogg. good times!
(tags: ubuntu ffmpeg howto video linux ogg)
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Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso
as inevitable as it is interesting
(tags: rackspace amazon cloud ec2 grid host s3)
spyderous: What are the top 3 issues facing Gentoo?
good look at the issues facing Gentoo, very relevant to open source generally
(tags: gentoo opensource developers communication)
Current Backup Solution | alexking.org
everyone needs one of these
(tags: backup alexking howto)
Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, [...]
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Twitter / Stanislav Shalunov: Amazon web services: 3x the…
“Amazon web services: 3x the price, 0.5x the reliability, and lower scalability than DYI. Buy only for the low capex and lead time.” - don’t buy this, personally, because it doesn’t factor in the cost of maintenance. i.e. my time vs Amazon’s time.
(tags: amazon pricing stanislavsalunov reliability [...]
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the_scene
Originally uploaded by sogrady
When we plowed into the drift in the middle of Gull Lake on Friday night, the sun was going down, it was already five or six degrees below zero without the wind chill, and it had just begun to snow. Hard.
The [...]
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Curses! Why the heck is everybody swearing? - BostonHerald.com
Mom fought the good fight on this one with us growing up, but the odds were overwhelmingly stacked against her. fortunately, it’s not hard to turn on and off.
(tags: swearing cursing culture via:thebiglead)
Proposition 3-17
make St Patrick’s day an official holiday? obviously, i’m in
(tags: stpatricksday holiday petition)
EMC to [...]
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Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD
ding ding ding…we have a winner
(tags: computer lenovo notebook thinkpad ultraportable x300 gps hsdpa)
Blue Cross halts letters amid furor - Los Angeles Times
“Facing a torrent of criticism Tuesday, Blue Cross of California abruptly halted its practice of asking physicians in a letter to look for [...]
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ice fishing
Originally uploaded by 416style
Yes, you read that right. And yes, I know it’s February.
But when your only brother that lives 2100 miles away asks if you want to join him and his brother-in-law sitting in a freezing hut for a weekend fishing, well, [...]
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For the non-analysts or analyst-relations folks in the audience, this may be less relevant than some posts. Not less relevant than the baseball entries, perhaps, but pretty close.
But anyway, James detailed his 7 Tips to a great analyst event, and I heartily agree with all of them but would like to expand on number [...]
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As the hearts over on Twitter indicate, today is Valentine’s Day. Whether it’s more attributable to Chaucer or Hallmark, the flood of hearts and candies and heart-shaped candies is upon us. Personally, I’m not a fan. When I’ve been in a relationship, I’ve always played the part and dutifully marked the occasion with the requisite [...]
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Google’s Data Asset | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
this is an excellent piece that describes perfectly why i feel that judging popular web properties solely on the basis of revenue generated may lead to undervaluation. the data - in the right hands - can [...]
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A Conversation with Matt Mullenweg (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
great interview of Matt by Jeremy which touches on PHP4 vs PHP5, next gen WP, Automattic, and more. worth the time.
(tags: bbpress interview php video wordpress mattmullenweg automattic jeremyzawodny)
An Antic Disposition: Punct Contrapunct
wherein Rob is not happy with the Burton Group
(tags: robweir odf ooxml burtongroup)
YouTube - balimore [...]
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BitNami Trac Installer
Originally uploaded by sogrady
Thanks to old friend Stephe Walli, I had the pleasure of meeting with Bitrock CEO Erica Brescia bright and not too early (it was the day after our Bday party, after all) last Thursday morning. What I expected based on [...]
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Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
hearing footsteps, enterprise software vendors?
(tags: google enterprise forms collaboration spreadsheets apps)
Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft’s Yahoo! Acquisition is Bold. And Dumb.
Mini’s not a fan of the proposed transaction
(tags: advertising business merger microsoft yahoo mini-microsoft)
‘Jaws’ actor Scheider dies at 75 - USATODAY.com
saddened to here of Scheider’s passing; Jaws was one [...]
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bradley’s almanac - a boston music blog
in case any of you are David Bazan fans, there’s an entire live show here from TT The Bear’s (which i was almost able to attend)
(tags: davidbazan music blog)
What the Linux desktop gives that Mac OS X and Windows don’t | The Open Road - The Business and Politics [...]
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Alex’s desk
Originally uploaded by alexkingorg
Monday through Friday trips always take a lot out of me, and this past week was no exception. Particularly given the extracurricular slate, which was trying. I’m just not 22 any more, much as my gray-free head of hair might argue [...]
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Ubuntu picks KVM over Xen for virtualization | Underexposed - CNET News.com
an interesting choice going forward, one made more interesting by my experiences with KVM vs Xen
(tags: kvm xen virtualization ubuntu linux opensource)
John Sequeira’s Weblog - Elastra delivers scalable OLTP. For Real?
scalable OLTP for Amazon EC2/S3? for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and EnterpriseDB? should be chatting about [...]
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aerial bday party
Originally uploaded by sogrady
A day late but hopefully not a dollar short (as usual) comes this belated thank you. As long as we’re into clichés, better late than never. The thank you emails, texts, Facebook messages, voicemails and IMs began rolling in yesterday [...]
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“The network is the computer” - Sun Microsystems
I concur. So where is it?
In the fine tradition of Good News/Bad News wrapups from the Sun analyst conference comes today’s note.
Sun’s been positive at this, their annual collecting of us analyst types, and from this vantage point they have reason to be. Though it hasn’t [...]
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Vendors Still Paying For IT Research That Flatters Them - WSJ.com
filed under: “not shocking”
(tags: commissioned research aberdeen via:brenda)
YUI Grid CSS and Grid Builder Kick Ass! (by Jeremy Zawodny)
i need to try these: wicked clevah may be wicked clevah, but it’s ugly as hell
(tags: css design development grids webdesign webdevelopment yahoo)
joe shaw / 我已经厌倦了这
amen. why we [...]
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the chieftain (great portobello) sandwich)
Originally uploaded by sogrady
First, and most obviously: congratulations to the Giants fans and condolences to the Patriots fans. But to both of groups, I have much more important news: 10 days till pitchers and catchers report.
Which is nice. But now [...]
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Dell Latitude E-series leaked - Engadget
happier and happier that i’ve waited for a new machine. these might actually work for me.
(tags: dell latitude laptop)
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YouTube - Radiohead - Scotch Mist
thank you for this sweet, sweet day. cool to see YouTube used thus, as well.
(tags: 2008 concerts cool radiohead video inrainbows music)
Annals of Communications: The Search Party: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“What kills a company is not competition but arrogance. We control our fate.” - Eric Schmidt
(tags: google politics [...]
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There must be something going around, something in the water. That was how one commenter put it to me this week. How else to explain the rash of open source acquisitions? From MySQL to Covalent to Trolltech, the appetite for open source vendors appears to be insatiable - even when the acquiring firm is itself [...]
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Adrian Demoing Chicagocrime.org
Originally uploaded by sogrady
Like Rafe, I just wanted to thank Adrian Holovaty for the soon-to-be-decommissioned Chicagocrime.org.
While I fully understand and appreciate the reasoning for its planned retirement, it’s a bittersweet moment for me. Chicagocrime.org has been a staple of my discussions around [...]
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Geronimo: Are its days numbered?
interesting. have heard speculation on this for a while, but it’s been a long time
(tags: analysis application geronimo jee java ibm via:javaposse)
Monty says: Sun buys MySQL AB
Monty’s take on the acquisition by Sun
(tags: sun mysql montywidenius m&a)
Discovery News : Discovery Channel
an article on feline rage that explains a lot about why [...]
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Surprisingly, Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech has elicited the least inbound inquiry of all the recent open source M&A activity. The MySQL deal triggered more or less a complete meltdown, and even the smaller Covalent acquisition got the phones and IM channels ringing. As an aside on the Covalent deal, James and I were joking this [...]
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Can I play too (and rip off Ryan’s tables)?
Browser
Visits
Firefox
59.30%
Internet Explorer
26.04%
Safari
5.44%
Mozilla
5.06%
Opera
2.08%
Operating System
Visits
Windows
59.46%
Linux
23.82%
Unknown
12.02%
Mac
2.44%
Stats are collected by Statcounter, and are a snapshop of the last 5,000 visits.
Can you say self-selecting audience?
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Saturday (Ftrain.com)
“You’re at the beach throwing a ball around laughing and out beneath the waves there is this slaughterhouse, this horror movie, shark week eternal. It’s amazing the ocean doesn’t just run blood all the time.” - it’s Ford, people
(tags: paulford sea barracuda)
Introducing Prologue « WordPress.com
interesting. WordPress, Twitterized.
(tags: blogs group productivity theme twitter wordpress)
Top Tracks [...]
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The Enquirer - MLB hurler seeks shareholders
“Their intent is to ease the financial strain on minor-leaguers who were not high draft picks. Their method is to allow the public to invest in them.” - crazy, and unlikely to work in the overwhelming majority of cases, but interesting nonetheless.
(tags: ipo publicoffering baseball minorleaguers)
Hank Steinbrenner: Don’t question [...]
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Photo Matt » Sun Acquires MySQL
Marten weighs in on the acquisition on Matt’s blog; a typically positive community interaction from Marten
(tags: martenmickos mysql mattmullenweg m&a)
Meet the world’s premier open source vendor - Sun | The Register
interesting piece by Ashlee. skeptical of the “potential Linux re-entry” angle - the affection for Solaris is systemic and entrenched [...]
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Adding insult to injury: USB 3G modems won’t fit in the MacBook Air - Engadget
what happens when form not only triumphs over function, but scorches the earth behind it
(tags: air apple macbook usb form function)
US comedian wins James Joyce award - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au
“As I perused my leatherbound volumes of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, [...]
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yes, I saw it
Originally uploaded by sogrady
For the curious, I survived last night’s Tech Meetup just fine, thank you very much. I was even up early this morning, thanks to the fact that someone has recently flipped the “old” switch on me. You know, the [...]
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Avian Flu - H5N1 Pandemic - Bird Flu - New York Times
“But avian flu has not gone away. Nor has it become less lethal or less widespread in birds. Experts argue that preparations against it have to continue, even if the virus’s failure to mutate into a pandemic strain has given the world more breathing [...]
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In the wake of the billion dollar valuation of MySQL, a number of intelligent folks have been crunching the estimated numbers in search of an equation that makes sense in the context of the market economics and come up wanting (as predicted). Jeff Gould states it most clearly, asking:
But I’m still left wondering, can Sun [...]
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Joyeur: Bingodisk and Strongspace: What Happened?
wherein the Joyent gang details their response to the outage, the causes, and the compensation - which includes the open sourcing of two assets. looks like i’ll have to find a new home for my Strongspace stuff, but it was comp’d so i have no complaints
(tags: backup bingodisk cloud customerservice [...]
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Is a tension we’re going to see more of, methinks. A lot more of.
As many of us transition from passively consuming roles to active producers of information, it’s natural that some of that production - even most of it - reflects our respective interests. It’s just as natural for some - even most - [...]
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Adam Leventhal’s Weblog
DTrace has been modified to protect iTunes: count me as unsurprised
(tags: adamleventhal apple dtrace opensource itunes osx)
Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka
“So here’s the question: how much of our life that we share with the Web 2.0 giants do we really *need* to share? How much of these services can and should we be running from [...]
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Walk Score - Helping homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods.
sweet, my hood scores a 94 out of a hundred for “walkability”
(tags: walkability neighborhoods mashups via:afongen)
SUMo: Keep your PC programs up-to-date - Download Squad
a Windows clone of apt?
(tags: windows apt sumo packagemanagement utilities via:joshua)
The Sun-MySQL deal stinks - MarketWatch
umm…what? [...]
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Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: In a Vortex
why oh why didn’t i trademark the Q&A? probably wouldn’t have netted me a billion, but a couple hundred grand would have been nice more seriously, though, this is a solid look at the process behind the acquisition.
(tags: q&a mysql opensource postgresql sun jonathanschwartz)
Photo Matt » Crunchies Win
congrats to [...]
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Macworld.Ars: MacBook Air spec shootout
specs for the Air
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Schneier on Security: My Open Wireless Network
interesting, i wouldn’t have expected this. maybe i should consider doing the same. i don’t encrypt traffic now, but i do use hardware authentication to stymie random usage.
(tags: bruceschneier wifi wireless security open network)
Photo Matt » [...]
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Conference room from hallway (through window)
Originally uploaded by alexkingorg
Offices, that is. Tired of being outdone by James, who shares space with the cool kids from Dopplr, as of Monday morning I will have officially raised him one as I’ll be moving in with the Crowd [...]
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WordPress › WPhone « WordPress Plugins
a mobile friendly interface for WordPress…coooooool. have this in place, and it’s tremendous.
(tags: admin administration interface iphone ipod mobile phone wordpress plugins via:jdub)
90 Watt AC/DC adapter on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
this is a massive improvement over the old bricks they used to use. still, i’m a bit gunshy with the [...]
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Late yesterday afternoon I got a request from the folks at Sun for some time this morning to discuss a “material” announcement. The catch? It was before 7 in the morning, my time. Given that I generally don’t stir before 8:30 at the earliest barring emergency, I hoped it was big news. In spite of [...]
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Twitter / Rafe: Just heard that the Amazon….
“Just heard that the Amazon.com SimpleDB team was hired en masse from the SQL Server team at Microsoft.” - i hadn’t heard this one. interesting.
(tags: amazon microsoft simpledb sqlserver databases hiring poaching)
High-Tech Hiring: Youth Matters
“Her best hires and most productive employees have been new college graduates. She explains [...]
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GNOME Do on Ubuntu Gutsy
Originally uploaded by sogrady
I should have sensed the danger ahead of time, but how was I to know that Steve Jobs was going to pull a laptop out of a manila envelope? I mean, honestly? Who called that?
But he did, [...]
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Jazz Community Site - Jazz Team Blog
the Jazz team’s blog goes open
(tags: jazz blog community transparency)
Gimp fade out effect | Gimp | Philipp’s blog
was only semi-successful with this
(tags: gimp fade howto)
Amanda Open Source Backup
this is very cool; more later
(tags: amanda zmanda backup s3 cloud amazon)
Anant Jhingran’s Musings: Why we acquire what we acquire?
a good post [...]
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pmuellr: why couchdb
excellent write up of why CouchDB is interesting, from pmueller. not necessarily on boad w/ the collapsing of the web server and the DB, but still, it’s compelling.
(tags: couchdb databases programming apache)
Enough predictions - rc3.org
+1
(tags: predictions forecasting rafecolburn future expectations accuracy)
Ford: Car owners are pirates if they distribute pictures of their own cars [...]
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Redmonk Schwag!
Originally uploaded by ric.hayman
No, RedMonk’s not marrying anyone. As far as I know, anyway. But we are turning five, and cordially invite order you - all of you that are in or can make it to San Francisco, anyway - to join us in [...]
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Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear
“As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operations.” - an ephiphany, or a budget crisis?
(tags: riaa music [...]
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Andrew Olmsted: Final Post
a truly touching post from a now fallen soldier; my condolences to Andrew’s family and especially his wife. note especially his thoughts on the long term outlook for democracy.
(tags: death war iraq democracy life blogging via:david)
Leonberger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a friend’s boyfriend has one of these; very cool dog, and it [...]
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DistStore - Distrubuted Document Store
with a variety of available backends
(tags: amazon api thrudb distributed databases memcached berkeleydb thrift mysql via:joshua)
The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head | Metro.co.uk
“Louis the octopus clearly thinks two heads are better than one when it comes to toys…The 1.8m-wide (6ft) creature is so attached to Mr Potato Head that [...]
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Denver Tech Meetup
Originally uploaded by chrisheuer
Why our holiday decorations are still up, I couldn’t tell you, but I do have the answer you’re all looking for: the date of the next Denver Tech Meetup. You remember, the Denver Tech Meetup? The User Group without the [...]
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KOKOGIAK - 2008 (and 40)
happy birthday to Alan, and best of luck in finding the balance. it’s a tough trick to turn.
(tags: alantaylor birthday balance stories)
Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting
an important question, given the role of shared hosts as a gateway to ubiquity, although b/twn virtualization and HaaS, it may become less so [...]
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DataPortability has big names on board, but a long road ahead | The Social - CNET News.com
“It’s a good first step. But the road ahead isn’t going to be a smooth one, and social-media enthusiasts hailing the age of “true interoperability” shouldn’t hold their breath. This will take a while.”
(tags: dataportability facebook google plaxo privacy [...]
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Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2
Originally uploaded by sogrady
In spite of what Dave Rosenberg thinks, I do in fact read his blog, and after rereading his post I’m pretty sure that the first time I’d actually seen ElasticFox was over there. So when asked why, while [...]
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sunset over cherry creek
Originally uploaded by sogrady
Yeah, yeah, I’m two days late with this. So what’s new?
After a too brief two week respite, I got back on the horse Monday morning and have been scrambling ever since. As expected. The break was something of a [...]
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How to Shoot Light Trails
neat. i know this is trite for the real photographers in the audience, but i’m not a real photographer, and hence will probably try this. maybe I-25 to start, as it’s just blocks away.
(tags: digital exposure photography howto night photos light)
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Batteries
“If there is a technology realm [...]
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The idea behind Earth Class Mail, as somebody said today, is a damned cool one. Much as Grand Central promises one phone number, so does Earth Class Mail promise one physical address. And for those that already have that, other nice-to-haves such as junk mail filtering, automated recycling, package receipt, and digital mail scanning. If [...]
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Looking back on 2007: aqualung
“Still using, still happy and have opened up tagging to all at Steph’s suggestion.” - cool, i didn’t even know you could do this. done.
(tags: flickr tagging public richayman)
“Calibrated Journalism” at Churbuck.com
“The tyranny of metrics has firmly spilled into the newsroom. This is bad. This pushes enterprise reporting into the realm [...]
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There Will Be Blood at Churbuck.com
i’ve got plans to see this with a friend coming up. can’t wait.
(tags: therewillbeblood davidchurbuck movie review)
.:: BPONG.COM ::. || Beer Pong and Beruit || Home of The World Series of Beer Pong ™
“Beer pong, also known as beirut” - uh, no, sorry. beer pong is a completely different thing [...]
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2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop [dive into mark]
no one is to show this to my parents, the new owners of an iMac courtesy of my brother. so far, they’re happy, but we’ll see if that lasts considering that i couldn’t get their Canon i850 printer working (worked flawlessly on Ubuntu)
(tags: apple [...]
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Taking The Plunge
“Yesterday was a big day for me. It was the first day fully devoted to my new job, which is basically this website. It still hasn’t fully sunk in - I quit a perfectly good, pretty cool salaried position to run my baseball blog full-time.” - awesome
(tags: blog baseball job economics)
Q&A: [...]
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The Futurist » Blog Archive » WOXY.com Google Calendar Now Live!
very progressive use of Google Calendar by the WOXY crew: kudos
(tags: google calendar woxy programming schedule)
The Scoble scuffle: Facebook, Plaxo at odds over data portability | The Social - CNET News.com
i’d be more sympathetic if it wasn’t Plaxo; while they’ve somewhat rehabilitated themselves from their [...]
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