• Re the Blago case: why does US still require unanimous juries? 10-2 majority is a sensible way of dealing with idiots and tampering… #
• RT @russnelson: There is no such thing as a free market. < Major deja vu moment. Haven&#39;t we been over this N times already? #
• Just played &quot;Go do&quot; (free Starbucks/iTunes track) by Jonsi (from Sigur Ros). Bought the album immediately. Exquisite! http://amzn.to/aryhDT #
• First visit to Golden Gate Park: we&#39;re grabbing an early picnic lunch before we go to the De Young Museum for the Impressionists exhibition #
• RT @ConnectedPlanet Telcos and cloud computing: Where are we today? http://ow.ly/1qNP05 #
• RT @russnelson: @geoffarnold but you [say] that there is no customer regulation either! < Nonsense. Customers delegate regulation to govts. #
• Thinking of going to Napa Valley around Sep 7-11. Prefer somewhere in a town, so we can walk to dinner, wine tastings, etc. Any suggestions? #

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• Just bought my first new Mac in a couple of years: iMac (21.5" w/i3) from the Apple Store. Unfortunately it was DOA. Yeah, it happens but… #
• RT @russnelson: I just ordered http://www.getlamp.com, a documentary about adventures in text<That looks awesome: I just ordered a copy too. #
• First tweet from my new iMac. 😉 #
• RT @ebertchicago: "America's leading True Christianâ„¢ Pastor" puts $1 million bounty on soul of Christopher Hitchens. < Like "Ghostbusters"? #
• RT @lewmoorman: opposing the mosque is very different than saying the first amendment does not protect it < but equally dumb #
• RT @lindseyfowler: Hate LA. I remember why I love Seattle every time I come here <Right. There's no "there" there (Until Santa Monica) #
• RT @disappearinjon: buying cargo liners and rubber floor mats for the new vehicle <New vehicle? #
• RT @disappearinjon: @fatals: Plus I had a sysadmin guild meeting tonight < There's a GUILD for BOFHs? #
• Figuring out where to store the iMac box… For what other kinds of consumer goods do we hang on to the packaging "just in case"…? #
• RT @ebertchicago: There's a good chance that that we'll never learn how the universe began <Learning to live with one's epistemic horizons #
• RT @samj: @swardley: sun don't really get enough credit for failing where amazon subsequently succeeded < C'mon, they failed 3 times! L33T!! #
• James Gosling on Sun, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Oracle and patents…. "Quite the firestorm". #
• RT @webmink: Nice free Weepies track on Amazon US has that tingle-inducing close harmony they do so well: http://amzn.to/dsut2R < +1 to that #
• RT @cutshot: RT @bbalfour: Can't wait until football begins < It's already begun! Chelsea was awesome!! (Oh, you mean AMERICAN football 🙁 #

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• RT @ericschmidt: Tom Friedman's column this sunday in the NYT… shows our current strategy is not working. Sorry. http://nyti.ms/9alBXi #
• How can one not subscribe to 'The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks'? For example:
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• So here's the first interesting test for the "open" in @openstack. Can you plug Hibari – http://j.mp/c0mgkd – into the framework? #
• Can they really build a Formula 1 Track in Austin in 2 years? If so, I'll be there! ("This is Texas!" Yeah, so?) #
• We just ran into @Barry_James Folsom at http://fukisushi.com He started the #Sun East Coast Division in 85; I was the first engineer there. #
• A Town Is Razed In Israel http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/a-town-is-razed-in-israel.html #
• RT @cswolf: Neil: Microsoft uses performance/watt/dollar as metric to measure effectiveness of data center infrastructure #cat10 #
• RT @eekygeeky: RT @TTintheCloud The Eli Lilly-Amazon Web Service story still stands – <More innuendo but still no facts #
• I wonder when all those ex-Sun people will get around to changing their LinkedIn and Facebook affiliations…. #
• RT @dayfornight: RT @Lotay: RT @mssuzcatsilver: RT @barbrogrindheim: "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."< Pure fiction #
• RT @c0t0d0s0: just blogged: Illumos: Something is going on… < OpenSolaris lives? #
• RT @russnelson: @geoffarnold freedom is never free. < Equally meaningful: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" #
• Heading up to San Francisco… Coit Tower and North Beach. Expecting cool, foggy weather 🙁 #
• Up Coit Tower: Just saw what looks like an LHA (?USS Tripoli) being towed out towards the Golden Gate. #
• Ahhhh… Lunch at the Mona Lisa in North Beach. Pasta perfection, with a nice Tuscan wine. I love San Francisco! #
• RT @jamesurquhart: Hedge your bets…: < Nice piece, reinforces my idea that #cloud starts with operational refactoring #

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• What does @openstack do to #vcloud? Ideally, force split between procedural and declarative layers; the latter should be API-neutral. #
• Every time I come to Baltimore for a standards meeting, I wind up watching baseball at Camden Yards. (Twice in 10 years, inc. tonight.) #
• Top of 3rd, Rays up 2-0, nobody out, bases loaded, and of course it's a walk…. Painful to watch. (Now it's 5-0…) #
• Good grief, how quickly one forgets. East coast, hot summer night, therefore mosquitos. Sigh. #
• The @openstack edge is the framework, not the individual technologies. E.g. someone will surely contribute a better EBS than one using AoE #
• RT @markveldhuis, @scobleizer Flipboard "currently over capacity". < They didn't host in an elastic cloud? How 2007 of them! #
• RT @vambenepe: Anyone can build an IaaS mgmt tool that works across Clouds. <<< At geo scale? With SLAs? With hw lifecycle mgmt? Bullshit… #
• RT @vambenepe: @geoffarnold I meant a customer-side console. <Yes that's easier, but it still involves a delicate balance, to avoid pure LCD #
• RT @vambenepe: "I think SOAP died when it became clear that Microsoft & IBM were having private meetings" < Boy, that resonates powerfully! #
• RT @neilhimself: @amandapalmer Try Kirsty's "You broke my butt in 17 places" #changehearttobuttsongs #
• RT @wspruijt: "OMG! The 10th of October will be 101010, which is 42 in binary. The answer to life, the universe & EVERYTHING!"< My birthday! #
• “@ruv: Like fashion, most of the hot concepts in technology today are just recycled from previous fads” < CP-67 to hypervisors, for example #
• RT @alecmuffett: Yay! There is a LX5! < But a bit pricey at $500 – I'll stick with my DMC-TZ4 pocket-cam (and Nikon P90 for zoom) #
• RT @GeorgeReese: I miss Krispy Kreme. <Because none near you, or doctor's orders? #
• That's it for TM Forum's Team Action Week in Baltimore. 170 people from 23 countries, 96+ meetings, 4 days. 1st mtg of the Cloud Services WG #
• “@krishnan: Really impressed with some of the new features offered by AWS in the recent months.” < +1 to that; velocity is addictive #
• “@theschnack: Did you know: The @tmforumorg has 2 Rachels on payroll. #3gpp doesn't. #taw” < quantity *AND* quality 🙂 #
• “@theschnack: @geoffarnold Here you go, as I elbow you” < nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, squire! #
• “@ruv: @jasonbrooks The people who complain about 'Open Core' have no money to spend anyway.” < NASA has no money to spend? Who knew? #
• Back at the Hilton after copious eating/drinking/carousing with the folks from @tmforumorg. I have an 8:35 flight home, so /me shutdown now #
• Personal peeve: People who arrange for routine events (like subscribing to a YouTube channel) to generate blog entries which show up in RSS #
• I just earned the Going Out Pin on @gowalla! http://gowal.la/r/WTBF #
• “@rgeorge28: Kid A not the greatest #Radiohead album IMO” < Whoever thought it was? OK Computer blows it away… #
• Interesting – but carefully neutral – David Brooks piece on moral naturalism – http://nyti.ms/csnZf9 I wonder what he really feels… #
• Hint for new people I follow: if your tweets are >25% of the traffic over a 6 hour period, I'll un-follow you. Think s/n, people! #
• In response to the question that @danariely posted at http://danariely.com my responses are (B) and (D). And now I'll watch the video. #
• In response to the question that @danariely posted at http://danariely.com my responses are (B) and (D). Oops: I missed the country: England #
• The Limits of the Coded World – http://nyti.ms/cXp26B – an excellent analysis of free will and the consequences of the "epistemic horizon" #

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• Check out @cloudbzz on "The Red Ocean of Cloud Infrastructure Stacks" #
• RT @trueslant My Dinner (and Drinks) with Christopher (Hitchens that is) – Michael Shermer – <audiobook sounds cool #
• Kate seems to think I've put too much garlic on the mushrooms I'm sautéing. I don't understand the phrase "too much garlic"… #
• Electronic boarding pass seems to work well at SFO. TSA agent didn't bat an eyelid. (And didn't scrawl on my iPhone with a highlighter….) #
• Cloud discussions focus too much on what (features, APIs) and not enough on how (operational stuff, SLAs, QoS). 'Cept for security of course #
• Since @unitedairlines started automatic free upgrades for elite FFs, I expected 1st to be full. Only about 20% on my SFO-LAX this morning #
• The real Portland is Portland, ME. (via @GeorgeReese) < No, the real Portland is in England Learn some history! #
• When the Hilton wants to charge $15/day PER DEVICE for capped Internet access, I reach for my 3G USB modem and share the connection. #
• RT @Carnage4Life: The Nexus One also dropped signal when held. Difference with the iPhone 4 issue is no one cared… – #

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• At the Shoreline Amphitheater SF Symphony pops+fireworks show. We've been here a year, but this is our first time at Shoreline. #
• Oh well; arguably Holland should have been down to 10 men from the very start (that boot in the chest). But 7 goals in 8 games? #
• Sorry, I meant 8 goals in 7 games. Still a record low, isn't it? #

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• I was hoping for a decent vCloud vs. AWS discussion. Instead we get this piece of self-serving non$en$e from BlueLock: #
• How Rackspace's API compares to Amazon's EC2 – (via @rackcloud). Self-serving, of course, but not offensively so. #
• Buyers beware: Security is a relative term now a days. #structureconf (via @krishnan) < But it always was. Were you confused about that? #
• Countdown: I'll get my iPhone4 tomorrow, unlock my old iPhone 3G, insert China Mobile SIM, and I'll be ready to head to Shenzhen on Saturday #
• Listening to the new Divine Comedy album "Bang Goes The Knighthood". http://amzn.to/9AW8Zi Brilliant! Tip: get the import CD w/bonus disc. #
• In line at Apple Palo Alto. Location: http://j.mp/b9Qco5 http://twitpic.com/1zin1y #
• Frustrated that iOS4 seems to crash a lot. Starbucks app kills it reliably. OS principle #1: apps mustn't be able to bring down the platform #
• RT @Cisco_Mobile #Kmart and #Sears to launch a streaming video service http://tinyurl.com/2gxvux5 < Odd move for bricks-and-mortar dinosaurs #
• iPhone 4 – beautiful, fast, good audio. BUT remember to carry a paper-clip: I've had the "NO SIM" problem twice #
• Can't tell if this is humorous or just clueless: @craigbalding One of the problems w/Amazon AWS – they only support Itanium processors. #
• Anyone managed to get Bluetooth tethering working between an iPhone 4 and a Macbook? I can't pair them… #
• Boarding in 25 minutes (SFO-HKG). Will my upgrade happen? Almost certainly not. However UA grabbed my credit card copay info just in case… #

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• Long-winded but ultimately persuasive: the Tea Party as disillusioned nihilism: NYTimes: The Very Angry Tea Party http://nyti.ms/chZ2jq #
• Great lunch and discussion with @adrianco, @geoffarnold, @vdasan (via @RichardMcDougll) <The nucleus of the ex-Sun "Extinguished Engineers" #
• Booked next Shenzhen trip: June 26-July 3. Unlike my recent RTW, this is on @UnitedAirlines, SFO-HKG. Only middle seats were available 🙁 #
• Lovely review of "Hitch 22" in the NYTimes: Do I Contradict Myself? http://nyti.ms/bJKNcJ – the Bosnia observation is spot-on #

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• Celebrating at the Fault Line http://twitpic.com/1v58vt #

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