Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2
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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
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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.:: 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)
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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
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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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181727
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You’d think it would be easier to find a laptop worth buying. There being many fish in the sea and all that. But I remain relatively unimpressed with the current options. MacBooks notwithstanding.
And yet I’m in desperate need of a hardware [...]
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Mystery ThinkPad surfaces, purportedly on track for 2008 release - Engadget
if this is true, book me for one now. 13 inch LED backlit screen? finally. i’ve been wondering why Lenovo was content to lag so far behind rivals, maybe they were just playing it close to the vest.
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Damien Katz: [...]
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As goals go, hozho is as good as any, and better than most. The balance it describes was no more easily achieved in this year than any other, but the highs and lows were navigated, I’d argue, more or less as prescribed by the approach itself. No permanent damage, at least, appears to have been [...]
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2007 in Review | alexking.org
2007, AKA the year that Alex blew things up. lord. i leave for a months and a burgeoning new business is created. also note that we found Crowd Favorite *before* AllThingsD. take that, Mossberg.
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Surviving Grady: A Diary of Unhealthy Red Sox Obsession
“We started this thing back [...]
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VMware Communities: Iphone in Vmware workstation 6.0.2 …
no iPhone support in VMWare yet. unfortunate.
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Using an iPhone / iPod Touch with Ubuntu - Community Ubuntu Documentation
not sure i’m ready to jailbreak the device, particularly since folks who did this previously had their phones bricked (which is crap, obviously)
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Amazon SimpleDb
Alex on SimpleDB, the pro’s and con’s.
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links for 2007-12-29 [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
“A welcome demise for a customer-hostile, DRM-infested, Windows-only product that no-one could love. Let’s hope the movie industry is paying close attention and learning the right lessons from this” - won’t hold my breath
(tags: drm wal-mart movies [...]
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MaineToday.com | News Update: EPA approves Northeast mercury plan
sweet! maybe now i won’t go crazy
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Futuretalk: ThruDB - Too-biased
“ThruDB, faster and cheaper than SimpleDB…The architecture sound incredible. Amongst others there is the rank and file of the high scalability open source software such as memcached, spread, CLucene and facebook’s newcomer thrift for [...]
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headed uptown
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Ask and ye shall receive. John and Kevin asked for a review, so here are my initial reactions.
Of course I’ll spin it that way, as if I’m altruistically documenting my experience for others and wasn’t planning on posting it anyway. [...]
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Old School [dive into mark]
“So it’s not about language, and it’s not about “modeling the wrong behavior,” and it’s not about the color of your skin or your fur. It’s about class — the one subject that’s still taboo in America, after all these years.”
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Daily Kos: [...]
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Research In Motion: What Slowdown?
“Analysts figured cuts in corporate tech spending would hurt the BlackBerry maker’s earnings. But smart marketing to consumers has paid off.” - consumer markets matter. who’d a thunk it?
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Search forms should use the GET method - rc3.org
“GET and POST both have their place, [...]
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ESPN - The wild and wacky from 2007 - MLB
“Maybe the Phillies should have traded for Mariners rookie Ryan Feierabend. He made three straight starts in June and July in which he gave up nine, zero, then 10 runs.” - the 0 game? my Sox. drove me absolutely crazy.
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The [...]
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I’m Quite the Artist
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Technically, I’m not a liar. I said I wouldn’t buy an iPhone, but I never said anything about what would happen if I were given one. Which I was. By my brother. Whose year was apparently even better than [...]
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Chris Hedges on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC
fundamentalism in any form terrifies me. maybe not as much as plagues or supervolcanoes, but close.
(tags: america books christianity chrishedges pulitzer newyorktimes ideology fundamentalism right intertolerance rationalism fascism religion)
This Could Be Next: Craigslist Integrates Social Networking with Listings « American Shelf Life
i’m seeing more such convergence [...]
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Boston Skyline
Originally uploaded by sogrady
As documented in excruciating detail on Twitter, I did eventually manage to make it into LaGuardia last night for the annual holiday visit with the parents. Not without the roughest ride I’ve had in years, but given that delays peaked north [...]
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Asus announces U2 hotness - Engadget
no trackpoint, and the SSD is too small - the Dell 1330 offers a 64 GB option - but we’re getting closer to something i can use. LED backlit option is attractive.
(tags: trackpoint asus u2 laptop ssd ultralight)
Amazon Web Services Blog: EC2 Firefox Extension is now Open Source
wow, the Amazon [...]
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Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Weave
fascinating, and potentially relevant to Luis’ open services discussion. from my initial read, however, it does seem as if they’re a bit ambitious.
(tags: mozilla weave open services standards online cloud)
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Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - TV & radio: Last night’s TV: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
one of my favorite indie act frontmen, E, learns more about his famous physicist father, Hugh Everett
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Twitter / hober: @josephgrossberg Exactly. I…
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mmm…boat garages
Originally uploaded by sogrady
The key is to kill yourself just enough in the afternoon that the food and beverages taste deserved, and the sweeter for it. Or so I’m told.
After a barely white knuckle transit up to Grand Lake yesterday morning, a friend [...]
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Customers hate you - Business Filter - Boston.com
“A new report shows that about 62 percent of Americans say companies ‘don’t care much’ about their needs. That’s up from 52 percent in 2004.”
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Q&A: Going to the mat for photo copyrights | Underexposed - CNET News.com
a complex issue that i can see both [...]
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On the Road to Grand Lake
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After a quick half day’s worth of work - insomnia isn’t all bad, just mostly - I’m about to hop in the car with a friend of mine and light out for the territories. The territories, in [...]
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[adult swim] | Adult Swim Video
absolute comedy. the Michell report as a Red Sox conspiracy, as seen from the eyes of a Yankee fan.
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» WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“Dennis Howlett pinged me about this post to point out that WordPress isn’t a CMS and is stretched beyond its capability.” - we use it as one. see redmonk.com.
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Everything’s coming up mobile this week, or so it would seem. Not so much on the news front - it’s been far too long since I saw a good Android conspiracy theory - but with everyone else: clients, friends, colleagues - everyone. Hell, I can’t say that I’d be terribly surprised if Az up and [...]
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Rise or fall for Red Hat? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
Savio’s right: the comments on this one are interesting, as it’s Matt’s read on the state of RHAT.
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Photo Matt » Web Apps with Class
“It would [...]
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Lots of chatter this week on Google’s planned Knol offering. Considered by many to be a potential Wikipedia killer, I’m both skeptical of that claim and disinterested generally. Oh, I’m quite sure that there will be sterling examples of individually authored research, but I find it difficult to believe that a single author - even [...]
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Surviving Grady: A Diary of Unhealthy Red Sox Obsession
“Doesn’t that feel better?” - yes, actuallly, it does.
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NPR : Mystery Factor Gives Ganges a Clean Reputation
weird, but cool.
(tags: weird ganges water india mystery npr)
I Needed Help, Not Ostracism - washingtonpost.com
heard this guy speak on NPR the other day, and he made an [...]
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Chad Finn’s Touching All The Bases: I don’t like the drugs but the drugs like me
“Given what we now know about the era during which he was the most dominating pitcher we’ve ever witnessed, the accomplishments of 5-foot-11, 170-pound Pedro Jaime Martinez’s accomplishments grow more impressive by the year.” - yes they do
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Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » Overnight Success
can’t say that i successfully parsed this one
(tags: stevegillmor google apple microsoft rayozzie)
max spevack’s blog - drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader
interesting Fedora community traction numbers
(tags: packages community fedora redhat via:jdub)
Sam Ruby: Eventual Consistency
“Amazon SimpleDB [via Simon Willison]. Erlang. Schemaless. Cool.” - agreed.
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Three years ago, Doc Searls discussed the idea that “it’s far more important (and interesting) to make money because of our blogs, rather than with them.” The elephant in the room for that particular conversation was advertising, the implicit question being should the blog be a profit in and of itself, or merely a means [...]
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MaineToday.com | News Update: It’s time to pull out the shovels - again
“Then there’ll be a lull before another snowstorm, a classic Nor’easter, sweeps through Maine Saturday night and Sunday with strong winds and heavy snow.” - ah, wish i was there. love being curled up warm inside while the wind howls outside.
(tags: maine weather [...]
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OpenedHand » home
mallum pointed me to this, and i dig the new look. not just b/c i know who built it
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Routine Traffic Stop Can Change Everything in an Instant.
this is freaking hilarious
(tags: mcsweeneys speedracer comedy humor via:david)
Best compliment ever - rc3.org
there’s no way i could [...]
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When I was in high school, and it came time to apply to college, my primary goal was as straightforward as it was unambitious: to get in. Obviously I had certain preferences, but like musical chairs I more or less didn’t want to be the one left standing. Most kids, I’m sure, are of the [...]
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Toshiba launching SCiB batteries in March: 5 min charge, 10 year lifespan - Engadget
this would be phenomenal: 90% charge in 5 minutes?
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Books: None of the Above: Books: The New Yorker
Gladwell on race and IQ; injecting sense into a nonsensical argument. worth reading as always.
(tags: newyorker malcolmgladwell iq race genetics intelligence)
MaineToday.com | News [...]
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Red Sox Nation, Florida - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog
if i’m ever in Bonita Springs, i’m going
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YouTube - The Nutty Buddy
a new cup, designed by an ex-MLBer. words fail me.
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» Before buying an HD display, read this lowdown on 720p vs. 1080i vs 1080p | [...]
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Comparing “open source” projects? Start by asking why does the project exist.
very interesting piece by mdolan; a bit cynical towards Sun, as usual, and i do think comparisons are possible b/twn projects managed under different governance models, but there’s a lot in here that i agree with. be interesting if he went introspective.
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The dish » BBWAA.
The Baseball Writers Association of America has done little to distinguish itself, but after years of fighting it, they finally gave in and allowed internet only writers in. sadly, two of my favorites, Law and Neyer, were denied entry. for no reason.
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One more week in the books, and more importantly one week closer to my annual Christmas and New Year’s two week shutdown and overhaul. While this week was blessedly yet strangely travel free, we’re getting moderately crushed with a few end of year projects, contracts, and other fun stuff. Well, to own the truth, some [...]
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No VMWare from Rackspace
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“Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com’s Elastic Computing Cloud online service.” - Stephen Shankland
That was one month ago today. Buried under the [...]
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Kitty Wigs! The Wigs
two words: high. larious.
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NPR : Romney Hopes to Reassure Voters Over His Faith
“The effort to establish an anti-religion in America, the anti-religion of secularism, has got to come to an end…We are a nation under God. And we do place our trust in Him.” - so [...]
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Verizon Embraces Google’s Android
Verizon? open? would be great news, and actually could compel me to switch back, but i’ll believe it when i see it. of all the carriers, they’ve been the most closed and most likely to cripple their own devices. which is why i’m now an AT&T customer.
(tags: verizon google android mobile open)
Open [...]
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Fedora’s Virtualization Manager
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Fedora had a chance - a real chance - to unseat Ubuntu last week. Not for my primary machine, the Thinkpad, but for the Ultra 20 workstation. And just to address the rumors, no one’s switching back to Windows. The [...]
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Now you can donate to Eclipse « Ian Skerrett
will be interested to see how this fares. not just for analysis purposes, either.
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LG’s 13.3-inch P300 series of LED-backlit laptops - Engadget
no trackpad, but otherwise a good potential replacement for the Thinkpad. speaking of, anybody have any idea when Lenovo’s releasing an [...]
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As is typical, I’m late with the news, but given that we’re still getting inquiries on the subject, it’s worth taking a look at the MySQL Workbench news. Particularly in light of the fact that it’s closely tied to another frequent line of questioning from our clients: hybrid source. In an effort to kill the [...]
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Don’t Know Their Yahoo From Their YouTube - washingtonpost.com
“So why is it so funny that the octogenarian Stevens, the top Republican senator on the committee that regulates the Web, doesn’t know the difference between the Internet and an e-mail?” - an excellent question
(tags: technology politics policy via:luis)
Album2007
vote for NPR’s Albums of 2007. my own selections: [...]
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Lots More of This
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It’s no secret - to the few that are interested, anyhow - that I was back East for longer than was anticipated this summer. Quite a bit longer, actually. As in mid-May through mid-November, up from June through September [...]
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tow.com » blog » Decluttering
in the process of doing this to my entire apartment. it’s lot of work, unfortunately.
(tags: decluttering stuff simplify livesimply via:alex)
Eighth wonder of the world? The stunning temples secretly carved out below ground by ‘paranormal’ eccentric | the Daily Mail
i love weird stuff like this
(tags: cathedral underground italy temple interesting via:alex)
Piecing together [...]
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Health and the Aspen Institute « Adam Bosworth’s Weblog
fascinating look at the state of health care and potential approaches
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AppleInsider | Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo
give me this, with two mouse buttons and a trackpoint and i’m in. except for the OS X part, of course. i can’t get over [...]
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» OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent ‘Foundation’ | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com
i’ve heard quite a bit about this, and despite knowing both Gary and Sam, i can’t say i really understand what’s going on.
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Vegas Watch: Bill Simmons Isn’t Even Trying Anymore
i’m a Simmons fan, mostly, [...]
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On the first of this month, after reading about the original dispute between ODF advocates and representatives from the GNOME community, I had this to say:
Wasted almost an hour today watching this trainwreck of a line of commentary. Unfortunate, and unproductive.
It may not comes as a surprise, then, to hear that in the month that [...]
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Coming in 2008: GPS-enabled cameras? | Underexposed - CNET News.com
GPS enabling and embedding wifi would change cameras profoundly for the better. except, in all likelihood, in terms of battery life.
(tags: gps cameras stephenshankland)
OpenSolaris Soon to Run on IBM Mainframes
count me as interested in this
(tags: mainframe opensolaris solaris sun ibm)
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Luis Villa’s Blog / gnome is humans; jeff is human; murray is violating the no asshole rule
good to see Luis outline his position on the GNOME flap in more depth, and condemn the approach taken by Murray. disagreement and criticism are fine things, as Luis says, and no one is perfect. but there is no [...]
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Cancelling the flight and hotel for tomorrow night was easy. Lunch with Dave, dinner with Preston, and a RedMonk evening with the Joyeurs and other friends at the new 83 Proof: considerably harder.
But when I learned earlier this evening that my last remaining client gig in San Francisco had been moved from Thursday to [...]
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As the interviews that are beginning to make their way up onto RedMonk TV can attest, our stay in Stamford for IBM’s annual analyst get together was something of a free for all of information. A bit of concurrency and dynamic languages here, some analyst relations chat there, the requisite Web 2.0 discussion, and more. [...]
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Universal’s CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He’s Giving Songs Away.
unsurprising portrait of a music industry exec who’s technology ignorant, and rather proud of it. if i was a shareholder, i’d be appalled.
(tags: sethmnookin universal riaa drm mp3 music wired)
Boston Red Sox - Loyalty not an act for this Red Sox fan - The [...]
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A response to the cacophony
“If you’re reading this, and you are feeling ongoing…despair…please see someone about it..It’s the only way to help…and the saddest things happen when people don’t” - kudos for dealing openly w/ this. i’ve got his back, and thank Jebus for Pia
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Murray’s Blog » Blog Archive » GNOME [...]
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Linux.com :: GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
i was hoping i could skip this one, as it seem clear cut from where i sit, but i guess it’s more nebulous than i’d hoped
(tags: gnome microsoft novell odf ooxml standards)
ESPN Page 2 - Gallo: Advice for Weis
this has been an excruciating season for the Irish, but [...]
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camden
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Though my Nokia N75 is unable to properly relay it (really should have brought the real camera), the view of Camden from the summit of Mount Battie was as clear as it was brisk. After walking up the quote unquote mountain - [...]
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stevenf.com: Android, With More Optimism
“And that’s why, despite all my grumping and flailing about of hands, I wish Google the best of luck with Android, and I’m looking forward to seeing it run on some actual hardware, and what happens after that.”
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Why Guiness tastes better in Ireland « [...]
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“Contrary to popular belief, I’m not actually from Boston (though most of my family is).” - Me
Usually, it’s the hat. As just about anyone who’s seen me outside of a formal venue can tell you, a Red Sox hat is a staple of my existence. Has been since my first visit to Fenway. [1] [...]
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According to our incorporation paperwork, RedMonk’s five year birthday is yet two Sundays away. But practically speaking, it was this same time five years ago that saw James and I embark on the journey that brought us - and, if we’re doing anything at all correctly, you - RedMonk.
It’s true that I have a [...]
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Report: Billions of jellyfish wipe out salmon farm | Underexposed - CNET News.com
jellyfish are becoming hugely (and newly) problematic in waters they’ve never been an issue in previously. the answer probably isn’t as simple as global warming, but if folks think something massive and dangerous isn’t at work, they’re fooling themselves.
(tags: jellyfish salmon globalwarming ireland)
Open [...]
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Comcast Must Die - Advertising Age - News
“Traditional marketing no longer works. The most important marketing vehicle right now is the consumer. Things have pretty much gone bottom up at Dell.”
(tags: comcast dell marketing bottomup consumer via:david)
25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips.
nothing beats Calvin and Hobbes. nothing.
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23andMe - Variations: Speed Gene: [...]
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If you spend enough time talking with fans or purveyors of the various virtualization technologies, eventually the conversation will shift around to the migration of “live workloads” - the movement, in other words, of running software. VMWare talks about this quite a bit, and Red Hat hastened to point out this feature in its latest [...]
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John Sequeira’s Weblog
John ponders the possibility of a Mono/virtualization story
(tags: mono virtualization johnsequeira appliance microsoft .net silvernight moonlight)
Boston Red Sox - Sorry A-Rod, MVP stands for Most Valuable Papi - Boston.com
the numbers are interesting, but only the most ardent homers would vote for Papi this year. A-Rod carried that team in the early going.
(tags: arod [...]
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Given my travel schedule of late (the very same one that prompted more than one “are you dead?” pings), I’m operating on a bit of a time delay, so if you’re wondering whether something has gone terribly wrong considering that I’m covering “news” dating back to early November, do not adjust your dial. I’ve just [...]
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Digg - “If I see a child or a pre-teen crying on the beach I change my direction”
sad, but understandable in the current climate
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Google engineer explains Android choices
“We have our own APIs [and] a better flavor of Java,” - is the fragmenting of Java beginning?
(tags: java android harmony apache google sun)
Red [...]
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Stefano’s Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
very interesting look at the IP issues around and behind Android
(tags: android dalvik ip google sun java jvm vm)
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Lest I forget, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank whomever it was - no note was included - that sent me this t-shirt (if you’re religious or easily offended, don’t click). It’s a couple of sizes too big, but I’ve already worn it. Really appreciated.
And on a similar note, if you’re a [...]
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The Faithful Steed
Originally uploaded by sogrady
You can call off the search parties. Unlike Flight 19, I was never destined to stay lost.
2114 miles, 1 speeding ticket [1], and I really don’t even want to think about how much gas later, I find myself returned [...]
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Almost Home
Originally uploaded by sogrady
While it was an absurd September travel schedule that initially prevented my return to Denver, the Red Sox are the real reason I’m still in Maine as of today.
But tomorrow is my last morning here. Well, at least until Thanksgiving. [...]
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Having spent the bulk of the evening either driving aimlessly around Western Connecticut in my rented Subaru Outback (thanks so much, Google Maps) or preparing for tomorrow’s consult, I haven’t managed to complete either my Red Hat Q&A (sorry, mjw) or my [...]
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Releases/8/ReleaseSummary - Fedora Project Wiki
this may be my new host OS for drake (the workstation)
(tags: fedora wiki virtualization fedora8)
Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online | Underexposed - CNET News.com
this is big news, for several reasons (yes, a Q&A is in the works)
(tags: amazon redhat rhel haas cloud hosted)
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