This looks interesting.
http://gigaom.com/cloud/ex-nasa-cto-builds-cloud-dream-team-launches-nebula/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29
Ex-NASA CTO builds cloud dream team
updating
No idea how many revisions behind I am. I was going to do the automatic update using my new tablet. However, I neglected to finish the update the LAST time I tried. Now I have to do it the hard way. For this post, I am using said Asus tablet. Which, by the way, I absolutely LOVE!!!!
Distracted. Or lazy?
WOW. I haven’t updated this since October 2010. I blame Facebook. But I know it’s just me being too busy and/or lazy to come up with something to say. Like now. Nothing to say. Just needed to post something so I can pretend this site is still worthwhile.
Water tank data center
This has to be one of the coolest data center ideas I’ve ever heard of.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/351365/Liquid_Storage?taxonomyId=83&pageNumber=1
Fun with banner
If you’re on a Mac type in “banner Example” without the quotes and see what happens.
States’ Primary Issue
The most important issue facing Florida, and all states, is the blatant theft of responsibilities the federal government is currently engaged in. The citizens of the are represented in Congress by the House. The Senate was supposed to be making sure the federal government doesn’t do things prohibited by the Constitution. Clearly they have failed.
Not your average drifter
I have to show this to the kids later today.
Science Fiction authors
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
The lesser known laws of Murphy
1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
3. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
4. Those who live by the sword, get shot by those who don’t.
5. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
6. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
7. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.
8. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
9. The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.
10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day, drinking beer.
11. Flashlight: A metal tube used to store dead batteries.
12. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
13. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
14. When you go to Court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
New phone
My new phone, the MyTouch 3G Slide, was delivered last week. I have to say it’s awesome! It has some weight to it. Probably the same as the G1. But it’s a smaller device so when you pick out up the first time it’s surprising. One of the neatest things is the swype keyboard. It sounds goofy, sliding your finger from one letter to the next, but it works amazingly well.
