• Finally got around to seeing K-Pax. Now I understand why people (quietly) raved about it…. #
• “@reillyusa: @jamesurquhart And the woman that runs it could frighten a drunk cowboy.” < That sounds like a compliment! #
• Why is everyone misunderstanding the EC2 announcement? It's "unshared", not "dedicated". Just another QoS feature, not "un-cloudy". Sheesh!! #
• Words of wisdom: Om Malik on Why There Are No Second Chances on the Internet http://t.co/KaUndAs #
• Here's a powerful piece by Eric MacDonald which comprehensively demolishes the (incoherent) concept that "God is love": http://t.co/DcX4Y3Q #
• “@alecmuffett: "You have a cryptographic failure, and then the terrorists take advantage of it and then there's a bomb…"” < said who? pwc? #
• Everyone who wants @Skype to fix the dysfunctional UI in Skype 5 , please retweet this piece by @lkm http://t.co/nXHPCgW via @tidbits #

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• 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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• 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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• “@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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• Geithner’s Gamble by Simon Johnson – Project Syndicate http://t.co/baoY4GN via @ProSyn #
• At the Frans de Waal "Morality before Religion: Empathy, Fairness and Prosocial Primates" #stanfordevent http://t.co/L69BkAt #
• XCP 1.0 finally arrives: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/building-the-complete-open-source-cloud-with-xen-org-and-openstack/ #
• An impassioned plea for getting rid of pompous bureaucratic jargon, as a matter of life and death. About time too. #
• OS X 10.7 Lion Preview via NewsGrange http://t.co/9zXfjNE – I'm running it on my new MacBook Air #
• “@timhaines: If evolution was real, kids would have a mute switch by now.” < Au contraire, that's a good argument against intelligent design #

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• “@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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• Finally saw Rob Hirschfeld's OpenStack talk http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/02/rob-hirschfeld-bootstrapping-hyperscale-openstack-clouds/ #
• "Which two nations still reserve places in their parliaments for unelected religious clerics? Iran… and Britain" http://t.co/VuVaSBi #
• We're at the Aquarius in Palo Alto for a showing of all the Oscar-nominated animated shorts. Last year we saw the brilliant "Logorama" here #

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• This explanation of atheism is simply beautiful. It's close to what I came to 45 years ago, but expressed much better. http://t.co/2WRzxxM #
• Tantalizing suggestion: Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs coming in June? If so… http://reg.cx/1MLn #

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• 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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• 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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