• Only conclusion: Red Bull would rather lose the #f1 Driver's Championship than have Webber beat Vettel. Doesn't affect $$$, must be jingoism #

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• Must-read: "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre – NYT Review: http://nyti.ms/bhEbYQ #
• The USA holds a show trial, complete with torture & forced confession. RT @nationalpost: Stalin would have been proud http://natpo.st/9SPImc #
• Better late than never: nice puff piece from Cisco on Cloud Computing and the Big Pipes myth http://t.co/cbX9J1k #
• A plausible thesis: Sarah Palin's interventions and endorsements actually cost the GOP the chance to win the Senate.http://tpm.ly/9piUZM #
• Changed plans: I'm spending the next day and a half at #cloudexpo First stop: the OpenStack session. #
• Every cloud stack vendor talks about compute & storage. Nobody talks about managing the virtualized network fabric. No good solutions yet? #
• RT @jtcarolan: the cloud is about simplicity via abstraction. < As always, the challenge is to distinguish between "simple" and "simplistic" #
• RT @atheistproud: But Flew was senile by then and his book was ghosted by a fundy. (Even so he was barely a deist, and denied an Xian god) #
• I'm at San Jose Rep for an excellent (and exhausting) performance of "Secret Order". Possible cure for cancer? No pressure! #

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• Weird #f1 race: lousy track, poor race control, lots of bad driving, 9 DNFs. It makes for a dramatic finale, but IMHO it's bad for the sport #
• RT @myinnervoice: I just signed the Contribute the Apple JDK source to OpenJ petition at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk <ditto #
• I'm going to a Meetup with SF Bay Area Large-Scale Production Engineering! http://meetu.ps/2Bq2 #
• RT @macworld: iPhoto '11 review: http://ow.ly/2ZAvo < But what we really need to know: Is there a reliable *loss-free* upgrade process yet? #
• Listening to a presentation on the "Asterix" scalable parallel data framework by Michael Carey of UC Irvine. http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/ #
• Frustrating. I just got approval to attend #qconsf headed over to the website, and some time in the last few hours it sold out. Sigh. #

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• In retrospect, I've decided Dim Sum is not for me: unpredictable, and real-time decision-making interrupts conversational flow. I like menus #
• Grey, wet afternoon here on Palo Alto, so we're all carving pumpkins. I wonder if there's an app for that? #
• RT @alecmuffett, @jimfinnis: RIP Benoit Mandelbrot. Thank God he wasn't murdered. It would have taken… forever to draw the chalk outline. #
• RT @adrianco: TripTrace: A Place Book For Where You’ve Been And Where You’re Going http://is.gd/g7C0i <Looks very cool. I'm in the queue… #
• National Review Gives Up, Tries Magic #ordinarygentlemen #
• RT @CloudSlam: RT The Future of #Cloud Storage is NAS… < Didn't we all know that already? #
• WTF? iTunes suddenly started saying that my credit card was declined. I checked with my card supplier, and everything looks OK at their end #
• Looks like Apple wants software developers to stop using Macs. Why else would they deprecate Java on OS X? http://reg.cx/1LdG #
• 2NE1 As @zoetica says, "How can I simultaneously hate and love one thing this much?" With dancing Stormtroopers!!!!! #
• Thinking back to really wet races at Spa or Nurburgring (long format). If today's drivers say that Korea is "impossible" we need to fix #f1 #

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• Just arrived – early – at SFO for @Unitedairlines Family Day event. Airplane pull, Blue Angels… then dinner with #flyertalk airline geeks #
• So why did both Rosberg and Kubica have wheels fall off? Same wheel nut supplier? Weird #f1 stuff #
• “@Scobleizer: In 10 minutes it will be 10:10 am on 10/10/10. I need coffee.” Me too. Nothing here at SFO Long Term Parking… #
• At the UA MCO at SFO – cool! http://yfrog.com/02b7sj #
• The answer to the question is 87,000 pounds or 43.5 tons. #
• First non-Blue Angels F-18 just took off… #
• Airplane pulls are starting. That A320 moves quite easily…. My team's turn is in about an hour. #
• The F-16s just took off at maximum afterburner. "No speed restrictions" from ATC, I assume! #
• Waiting for the pilots…. http://yfrog.com/709c1xj #
• “@lskrocki: Also…tweeting as a procrastination ploy.” I'll get back to you on that…. #
• Attending my first Yahoo tech conference at Santa Clara Conference Center. Great opportunity to get a breadth-wise view of the company. #
• Anyone know anything about using the iPad as an augmentative assistive communications device for kids with autism? ACOLUG looks interesting. #
• Had to miss @adrianco's talk on #netflix on #aws because we're going to SJC to meet Hannah. But I doubt I would have got in to the DoJo…. #

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• RT @dailydish: Donald Duck Joins The Glenn Beck Movement: Genius parody and watch till the very end. #
• Disconcerting: Reverend Evolution (@rev_evolution) seems to re-tweet stuff from me and others without any attribution. Ethical? #
• “@towfiq: @cutshot Come on out!” Time for a Sun ECD reunion here in the Valley? Barry James is around…. #
• At the optometrist, picking up my new glasses. Prescription drifted quite a lot over the last year, but in one eye only. Weird! #
• #plan Attend United Airlines open house (San Francisco International Airport-Sfo) Sun, Oct 10, 2010 http://planca.st/D6Y #
• The Bodleian Library, 21st century version: http://bbc.in/ckRabH #
• Current reading: "Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions". Recommended. http://amzn.to/abnVyj Anyone read any of the others in the series? #
• I'm going to a Meetup with Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group! http://meetup.com/u/kQR #
• Hitchens on "Tumortown": http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/11/hitchens-201011 #
• Why skeptics should NOT hesitate to discuss politics: http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/10/limits-of-reasonable-discourse.html #
• Busy weekend: Japan GP, HD's big party tonight, United Open House tomorrow. And birthdays: Lennon(RIP) today (70), mine tomorrow (60). W00T! #

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• After grommit's PS failure, @stevel and I agreed it's time to replace it. So I just ordered a new 1U (3TB) server from Silicon Mechanics. #
• I know: I'm a #cloud guy, so why should we run our own hardware? Why not host in the cloud? Because it's fun…. (Plus OpenSolaris+ZFS.) #
• Q for philosophers of religion: what is the relationship between what you do and religion "on the streets" – in Afghanistan, Rome or Miami? #
• Do you believe your subtle philosophical arguments are relevant in dealing with religious bigotry or violence? #
• Oh goody! Fire alarm drill. Everybody out…. #
• Going onto my reading list: Hacking Work, a new book by Bill Jensen and Josh Klein. Boing Boing review at #
• Just blogged (but missed by the WP-Twitter automation):: Repairing the blog, and recommitting http://geoffarnold.com/?p=3913 #
• Another day, another Yahoo! building, another evacuation drill. Pretty soon I'll know all of the assembly points for the whole campus… #
• All William Gibson, all the time – http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/09/william_gibson_weekend/ #
• No silver bullet: Canonical's COO Asay on monetizing APIs: Half-a-billion users don't mean API payola http://reg.cx/1KXP #
• Mmm… "Counterintuitive": one of my favourite words. See http://t.co/QA4KIaO via @motherjones #
• Why Johnny Can't Program – Of course, "Why Jane doesn't want to program" is also part of the problem… #
• Up at Roaring Camp railroad behind Santa Cruz. Train is full of guide dogs in training. #
• Just back from riding the steam train at Roaring Camp. Pics here: Then wine tasting at Hallcrest Vineyards. (Mmm!) #

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• Prepping the paperwork for my Yahoo! New Employee Orientation tomorrow morning. This is going to be fun… #

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• “@UnitedAirlines: Ever wanted to see inside the cockpit of a 747? We gave KTLA a peak! < You mean "peek", of course. #

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• Final prep for trip east. Limo coming at 3:35AM to get us to our 6AM SFO-BOS flight. (Verifying UA Visa+auto ins. will cover rental CDW.) #
• Old style trip prep: copying MP3 playlists from iTunes to my iPhone.
  New style trip prep: ripping DVDs to my iPad with HandBrake. #
• RT @sarahholtf1: What's that the sound of steady rain falling through the trees and trickling into the gutters? Good morning from Spa<Uh-oh! #
• Lack of imagination: "Another… said: 'I can't think of anything worse than being told your plane's about to crash." #
• Common problem: @vambenepe: OK, so I looked at my blog logs tonight and apparently the way to generate traffic is to write new posts. Darn. #
• Waiting for a take-out order of sushi at Misono in Chestnut Hill. Feels just like 1998-2005 (before I moved to Seattle). #
• “@rww: Eucalyptus and Amazon – A Twist Forms in the Open Cloud http://rww.tw/cssrQ4” < Where's the twist? (Unless you live under a rock…) #
• Prediction: As soon as the @OpenStack baseline release is done, there will be new subprojects for EC2/EBS and S3 API compatibility. #
• Hotel Indigo in Newton MA has SpeedTV, so I'm watching the Belgian GP. Rain clouds on one side of the track, sunshine on the other. Typical. #
• Still hoping for a Hamilton lead-from-lights-to-flag win. All his pursuers have stopped for tyres… #
• “@ConnectionMaven: @geoffarnold We are watching somewhat delayed…so no spoilers.” <OK. Of course "rain at Spa" isn't a spoiler 😉 #
• So it comes down to tyres – intermediates vs. full wets – and visibility through spray. Classic! #
• “@GrandPrixDiary: For Gods sake Kubica – put your knees together….”< After 40 laps in that little tube of a cockpit, you'd want to stretch #
• “@jxstanford: Pop quiz: Why shouldn't a RESTful service have a login / logout?” < Idempotency, server state. Too easy. #

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