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A Sandwich, A Wallet, and Elizabeth Taylor's Cousin A great parable and message, one that I need to do better with on the business side but I try very hard to follow on the customer side.

A Sandwich, A Wallet, and Elizabeth Taylor's Cousin A great parable, one that I need to do better with on the business side but I try very hard to follow on the customer side. Coyote Tracks – Geek Luddites Excellent post on why devices like the iPad, and the direction of Mac OS towards iOS, are good. I tend to agree – people want devices that work, and not have to worry about filesystems and viruses and all that crap. Sixty Minutes. No Alibis. No Regrets.: Minnesota… Is Less Than Optimal "But what I will do, is use my knowledge of gopher fans for the greater good. I won't be making the trek across the St. Croix to see this …

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Apple Releases New 'Server' Configuration of Mac Pro to Replace Xserve Interesting…

"God Hates Figs" | IMG_8882 | Flickr – Photo Sharing! Perhaps my favorite sign from the Rally to Restore Sanity. Mark 11:12-14 says "The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, 'May no one ever eat fruit from you again.' And his disciples heard him say it." I guess Jesus was a real jerk when he was hungry.

Dinosaur Skull Found in Church : Discovery News So the church is built with marble from a known fossil-bearing site, and they've got chunks with fossils in them. I think that qualifies as ironic.

BLDGBLOG: Trap Rooms "While finalizing my slides for tonight's lecture at SCI-Arc, I was reading again about one of my favorite topics: trap streets, or deliberate cartographic errors introduced into a map so as to catch acts of copyright infringement by rival firms." The 2011 Ford Edge Sport Brings Vehicles Into The Computer Age — Lag And All "The lag is unbearable at first, but overtime you kind of get used to it — I can only assume in the same sort of way people live with herpes." Great review of the Microsoft Auto 4.0 software platform. I'll wait until a non-US car manufacturer implements it and gets it right. November 11, 2010 Meeting – Green Bay « Wisconsin VMware …

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Jilted EMC won’t give its cherry to two-timing Dell • The Register Seriously, Dell should buy Xsigo and do its own Vblocks. Put an Infiniband interface on an EqualLogic array, that’d be a definite advantage over a Vblock, and probably cheaper since its Dell and not the Ferengi^H^H^HEMC Schmidt: I ‘misspoke’ over Street View • The Register Eric Schmidt is more and more like BP’s Tony Hayward every day. At least he is honest that Google couldn’t care less about your privacy, and that they are going to do whatever they please, because they can. Rolling, Rolling, Rolling Shutter « Flickr Blog The iPhone has a rolling shutter on it’s camera, and that can generate some truly odd effects. Why …

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access.redhat.com | Red Hat Knowledgebase: Fully-virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 guests running on AMD Opteron 6000-series based hosts panic on boot "Fully-virtualized guests running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 on AMD Opteron 6000-series (code named "Magny-Cours") based hosts will panic on boot with the following crash signature…" Continuing proof that no good can come from running AMD CPUs. If you run AMD gear and want to keep your VMs up to date, now you're stuck.

AWS Free Usage Tier "To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a new free usage tier. Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year, while also leveraging a new free usage tier for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS data transfer. AWS’s free usage tier can be used for anything you want to run in the cloud: launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or simply gain hands-on experience with AWS." This is really cool — the best way to get people to use your service is to get them using it for free, …

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evilrouters.net » ARIN Regains 45/8 from Interop This is a nice move. Doesn't solve the problem, just delays it, but still. As I've said for the last couple of years, if you aren't looking at IPv6, even in a research mode, you are way behind.