Author: geoff

The week's twitterings – 2011-03-27

  • Comprehensive fisking by Dr. Jim of Isbell's weird paper in Bib&Interp attempting to reconcile Genesis with science. http://t.co/PCCAXRo #
  • AT&T buys T-Mobile USA for $39B http://t.co/rrLL7C8 Will this give me cheap roaming access to T-Mobile voice & hotspots in Europe? #
  • IaaS: private cloud == public (a box is a box is a box). PaaS: not so simple: lots of coupling into SW lifecycle, edge svcs, change mgmt… #
  • NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans U.S. Citizenship Test—38 percent failed. http://shar.es/3QPb5
    Including Michelle Bachmann & Sarah Palin? #
  • Following @adrianco I've just claimed my @PeerIndex profile, check it out http://pi.mu/2wwA #
  • Your tax dollars at work: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/03/what-corporate-welfare-looks-like.html #
  • From @ThisIsSethsBlog The real risks and costs: nuclear, oil, coal. Meanwhile the media obsesses over Japanese reactors #
  • Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate http://reg.cx/1Np5
    Commonsense stuff. But hysteria sells, so it's not going away #
  • In contrast to the Register piece I just linked, here's how NOT to talk about Fukushima – no numbers, vague language. http://t.co/6u6Mfu8 #
  • Streaming video of Aussie GP P3 on @Formula1onSpeed works well. No commentary, but I can watch @sarahholtf1 and @willbuxton tweeting… #
  • Ouch. Liuzzi's HRT finally sets off, and parks after four corners #
  • “@davewiner: Bob Herbert's last NYT column. http://t.co/4jaQ2PK” < Very, very true. Time to s/plutocracy/democracy/g #
  • Just grabbed the music for the new ballet by the Pet Shop Boys & Javier De Frutos: The Most Incredible Thing. See http://t.co/fz1DkCv #
  • After one saccharine VALUES commercial after another during the Australian GP, I was longing for someone to try to sell something to me! #

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The week's twitterings – 2011-03-20

  • Watched "My Fair Lady" (1964) and "Pygmalion" (1938) back-to-back. Surprised by how closely the musical followed Shaw's screenplay… #
  • Of course the original was much better than the musical – tighter, wittier, better cast (except for Stanley Holloway) #
  • People keep saying Fukushima "is now the second worst nuclear accident". This is wrong: the worst was Chernobyl, second worst was Windscale. #
  • Running into guest wifi issues, but Personal Hotspot on my iPhone works well with my MacBook Air. Time to dump my 3G USB dongle. #
  • “@ipaxer1: When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein” < For some purely metaphorical value of "God", that is… #
  • Curious why they're not using robot/remote systems at the Japanese reactors. Japan was working on search & rescue robots 10 yrs ago #
  • Visions of C3PO dragging a very long firehose up to a fuel storage pond… #
  • Nice piece on the true meaning of elasticity in the cloud http://t.co/P1znlxl #
  • Just OCR'd a scan of an old article by my mother. Discovered http://t.co/oWvjioG which made it a breeze (and free). #satisfiedcustomer #
  • I love reading xkcd on the visualization of complex information. This time it's radiation: http://t.co/MYBtX9H #
  • This is priceless!!! Blowback Mountain? Idaho to Train Saudi Airforce – http://goo.gl/tFCjd #
  • Just changed my Netflix account to streaming only; now it keeps nagging me about stuff available only on DVD. Any way to turn this off? #
  • QOTD from Christopher Hitchens: "Once you know that Christians call themselves a flock, you already know enough about this religion." #
  • Strange sense of satisfaction: completing theTop Gear "Where's Stig?" game on my iPad. I think I need to get out more… #
  • Intriguing Netflix recommendation (two of them, actually) http://twitpic.com/4b8nm5 #

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The week's twitterings – 2011-03-13

  • “@mfeathers: In the new world, Cobol is Ruby and Fortran is Python.” And in the NEW new world, Java is Node.js. All hail JaveScript! #
  • Wish I could spare the time for #ccevent – it's just around the corner! – but at least I'll be at the Rackspace party on Tuesday #
  • “@jimgris: shit” Really? Whazzup? #
  • “@geoffarnold: “@jimgris: shit” Really? Whazzup?” < Never mind: I see. Tho it's not on earthquake.usgs.gov yet #
  • “@timhaines: Tsunami has hit.” <Where? http://t.co/QYijwQL is current Pacific warning/schedule #
  • Just bought our tickets for Al Stewart+Peter White in Carmel on May 7. (My first Al concert was in Windsor, in 1968!) #
  • "No responsibility" in 21st century USA http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/03/another-swat-raid-gone-wrong.html #
  • Must-read by nay-sayers: @adrianco on How not to build a Private Cloud http://t.co/E7BhRHh #
  • De Condimentis: Butter. Wonderful stuff! http://j.mp/h8BRHB via @AddToAny #
  • Glorious example of tea-party ignorance. (Most of them probably couldn't even pass a naturalization exam.) @dailydish – http://t.co/iJCKkyt #
  • “@myinnervoice: Read comment #6 How not to build a Private Cloud http://t.co/nDQaO0z” <Why? The comment makes no sense. #

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The week's twitterings – 2011-03-06

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The week's twitterings – 2011-02-27

  • “@Herbez32: Are agnostics atheists? NO. The atheists are BELIEVERS, just like the Christians are.” < What an utter crock… #
  • “@timhaines: Fruit trees and lease comes with a gardener. Woot!”< Why does the lease need a gardener? #confused #
  • “@furrygirl: YOU PEOPLE NEGLECTED TO MENTION ITS SUPERFLUOUS CAPYBARA! http://t.co/PfJ0k4x” <A capybara is NEVER superfluous! #
  • For some reason, hearing Captain Beefheart playing in Starbucks struck me as particularly bizarre… #
  • Amazing essay from TAM London. http://t.co/rkUZixQ #
  • “@wattersjames: @geoffarnold You're saying that arguing about the validity of homeopathy is merely tribal? What an odd epistemology. #
  • The wisdom of Ike: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/quote-9.html #
  • “@thinguy: (I'm still here)” Good. Now what? #
  • Local forecast for Palo Alto this Friday night/Saturday morning: "Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and snow showers. Low 27F." REALLY?!?! #
  • Why are UK Muslims homophobic? 58% of Brits are OK with gays, but among British Muslims it's 0%. ZERO! Unacceptable. http://t.co/Zx79GoZ #
  • Just replaced my 1st gen MacBook Air with a new 11.6" MBA (4GB/128GB/1.6GHz). Like my 12" PB G4 from 2004, except faster and half the weight #

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Must-read piece on Massively Scalable Data Center networking

Like Ivan Pepelnjak, I agree that the must-read piece of the moment is Brad Hedlund’s Emergence of the Massively Scalable Data Center. Yes, it’s more about the questions than the answers, but even that’s a step forward. And as a bonus, this led to me browsing Ivan’s blog, where I came across this excellent piece on how we got into the present L2 v. L3 mess (including the impact of what Ivan calls “the elephant in the data center”).

The week's twitterings – 2011-02-20

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The week's twitterings – 2011-02-06

  • I'm really fed up with the new @skype UI on the Mac. Lots of gratuitous white space and flashy coverflow, but no compact view. Frustrating. #
  • “@aaronpaxson: It astounds me that scientists don't believe in God. Who else can make things so perfect and "in balance"?” <Gotta be a troll #
  • “@stevel: @geoffarnold http://t.co/A0q7yTH” < Helps a bit, but still terribly wasteful of screen real estate. #
  • “@GeorgeReese: I don't believe in string theory.” <Of course, the universe is indifferent to your opinion. #
  • “@craigmorgan: @geoffarnold @stevel front it with Adium" < But I mostly use Skype for video chat 🙁 #
  • “@adrianco: @GeorgeReese @geoffarnold E8 theory is more elegant than string theory” < Surely the E8 *model* – lots to do to make it a theory #
  • Great piece by Julia Galef on the epistemological status of "intuition". http://t.co/t2Z3fnd #
  • Hitchens is devastating on why The King's Speech is a gross falsification http://t.co/nYx3IKR via @guardian. Loved the film, but he's right. #
  • Today is a day for weak tea, dry toast, and sleep. #delhibelly #
  • Corvid savants: http://t.co/xFafX7Y – check out the video clips! Crows (and rooks, and ravens) rule! #
  • Catholic priest/exorcist: "We have a rite that’s recognized, even by the demons, as legitimate." Lawful evil demons? http://t.co/qfbaySY #
  • Somehow I wound up pulling an all-nighter last night. This can't end well. (Though today ends with me getting on a plane, so….) #
  • 11:25PM – time to check out and head to the airport for my BLR-FRA-SFO flights home. (How come I only ever see Indian airports at 2-3AM?) #
  • And here I am, back at the Tower Lounge at Frankfurt. I have a 3+ hour layover, then I'm heading home to SFO. #
  • My Yahoo-supplied 15" MBP is gorgeous & fast, but just too big and heavy for a road warrior. Switch to 13"?
    Or is a new MBA in my future? #
  • Back home: I just watched Wolves beat ManUtd. Not what I expected. Good match, though. #

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The week's twitterings – 2011-01-30

  • Early to bed (10:30PM); I've got a limo coming for me tomorrow morning at 3:25AM. First Boston, then on Thursday I fly to Bangalore. #
  • Waiting in the LH lounge to board my BOS-FRA flight. I'll have a couple of hours in FRA, then on to BLR, arriving in the middle of the night #
  • “@GeorgeReese: @vambenepe SOAP must die.” < Big +1 to that! #
  • “@longword: hmm, wooden stake, garlic, or silver bullet? <Not silver bullet – try searching for "lifecycle silver bullet". Great paper! #
  • “@GeorgeReese: I guess I did just advocate violence against SOAP.” < Actually well-informed indifference is doing the job pretty well! #
  • At the LH Lounge in Frankfurt for 6 hour layover. (@united PremEx = Star Alliance Gold). Good food&drink… but WiFi is 8 Euros for an hour! #
  • Uneventful flight from FRA to BLR on LH, in a antiquated 747-400 with overhead TVs and no personal IFE. Only @United and LH, I guess… #
  • Anyone know of a Firefox plugin to facilitate the creation of a "tab sweep" blog post? Build a page of linked tab titles, ready for editing? #
  • Got to Bangalore hotel at 3am, slept until 9, intending to have breakfast. It's now 11:50am, so I guess I'll call it lunch. #fightingjetlag #

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