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graphpaper.com – The User Experience Flip Mode Interesting comparison between switching to Macs and wearing glasses that invert optical images. Emotions Run Amok in Sleep-Deprived Brains | LiveScience Could have told them this. When I sleep poorly I am crankier than hell. Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog: ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk? It’s a powerful message when a CEO calls another company a troll and announces that they’re going to seek to remove all NetApp Filers from the marketplace. Sounds like someone kicked the wrong sleeping dog. Why Enterprise Software Sucks – (37signals) “Because the buyers aren’t the users.” – Amen. VMware ’shoddy’ and full of bugs; use the mainframe instead — Server Specs My bigoted, uninformed reaction: I like …

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Flying Tankers inc. – the largest flying boats ever flown operationally “The ram pressure for injecting the water into the tanks is such that the aircraft is taking on water at a rate in excess of a ton per second.” – Need these things in San Diego, it looks like.

Twelve Essential Photographic Rules – – PopPhotoSeptember 2007 Apple Matters | 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job Nikon Small World – Gallery Cool images. Unfortunately nothing in a format for desktop use… Howard Lindzon » Craigslist Meets WallStreet…Classic Oracle licensing, support pose VMware virtualization hurdle Oracle VMware licensing is probably the single most annoying thing right now in my VMware implementations. The fact of the matter is that some of the people I work with are seriously considering PostgreSQL or MySQL as the fix. Download free CSS templates – Free CSS Templates 41 Reasons Why Your Blog Probably Sucks | Performancing.com Improve Your Photos in 60 Seconds Stuck In Customs » HDR Tutorial – Featuring HDR …

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Tuning and Optimizing RHEL for Oracle 9i and 10g Databases (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 4, 3, 2.1 – redhat, x86-64) National Do Not Call Registry If you registered your phone number for do not call lists it will expire after 5 years. I just reregistered my numbers.

iPhone Nextbus When I was in San Francisco for VMworld I was using the MUNI Next Bus site a lot from my iPhone. The fact that there is a custom interface for the iPhone now is sweet. Seth’s Blog: Teaching your customers a lesson Dead on. Why do people act like the slightest deviation from the norm sets a precedent? It doesn’t. Why? Because we’re not in third grade anymore. Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins SQL joins make my brain hurt. Inco iPhone-specific sysadmin tools. Unfortunately only for Mac OS X for now. Software Is Hard Excellent piece. Software is hard.

The Journal of Joe The Peacock. Yay.: An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today

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The Art of Evangelism Web Conference Everybody needs a little evangelism, even sysadmins.

Optimus Maximus keyboard I totally want one of these. Can someone suggest how I justify the $1500? PLEASE?!? Compiling Nagios Plugins and NRPE on Solaris 10 with Sun Studio whitepaper-opsview_sun_fire_t2000.pdf (application/pdf Object) Scott H Young » The Critical 7 Rules To Understand People VirtualOctane – The Formula for Virtualization Success :: InovaWave – We Make Virtualization Work This looks interesting. It also looks like something VMware will squash eventually. Rising Email Immunity Leads to Conflict over Email Etiquette « Web Worker Daily I hate my email. Do Anything: 3 Steps for Success « Internet Duct Tape “Be happy” is always the first step. shtikl.com » You don’t need a plan, you need skills and a problem. I am not sure …

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