Category: Tweets

• Guardian Eyewitness: http://gu.com/p/2h7j5/iw An impressive ship-in-a-bottle, worthy of a plinth – but those sails!?! Ew- kiss me Hardy! #
• Hack on e-commerce co. exposes records for 200,000 http://reg.cx/1JcC "Highly unusual search" is the latest term for SQL injection, I guess #
• Can't go home yet: my car is still being cleaned/detailed in prep for tomorrow's drive to LA (and back on Sunday). Cue Dire Straits "Bug"… #
• Arrived in Claremont, CA after a 7 hour drive (inc. one food stop, plus bio break and refuelling). Went much faster than expected. #
• At the auto swap-meet in Pomona. Amazing! Huge! http://twitpic.com/1ui27x #
• More classics in Pomona Location: http://j.mp/aC4s7b http://twitpic.com/1ui5bz #
• If I were ever going to buy a 2nd hand Porsche… Location: http://j.mp/aC4s7b http://twitpic.com/1uibt0 #

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• Question for all: What/when was your #firstflight ? Mine was an Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount turboprop, LHR-DUB, in 1961 #
• Question for all: What/when was your #firstrealflight ? Mine was an Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount turboprop, LHR-DUB, in 1961 #
• Turkish GP: Vettel chucks it all away and throws a tantrum. If Horner continues to support him, it'll split the team. Webber rightly furious #

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• At the plenary at TM Forum #mworld2010 in Nice. We're invited to Tweet about it, but conference wifi doesn't cover the auditorium! #FAIL #
• NYTimes on Goldman Sachs http://nyti.ms/bOgsMk < institutionalized conflict-of-interest stinks; break 'em up #
• #mw2010 day 2: Profitable Cloud Services summit. Everybody declares "vendor agnosticism" but without effective standards how can this be? #
• Now we're discussing the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council – a forum for customer driven standards, not vendor-driven. About time. #mw2010 #
• TM Forum's ECLC is defining a customer-driven de facto standards IaaS private cloud reference model. The consequences could be huge. #mw2010 #
• Why would you design an Amazon-like IaaS service, and make the self-service response time 3 days rather than a couple of minutes? #mw2010 #
• Tired of vendor presos that imply the audience is dumb, the topic is complicated, and the best strategy is "trust us". Guess who. #mw2010 #
• Fun with #hp in Monaco during #mw2010 http://twitpic.com/1p7ph8 #
• More fun at the casino on Monaco with #oracle during #mw2010 http://twitpic.com/1p7rj4 #
• Fun with #oracle at The Casino in Monaco http://twitpic.com/1p7ry9 #
• Fed up of completing 90% of the web checkin process and being told "Sorry, you have to checkin with an agent". @unitedairlines, DL,… WTF? #
• Went to the Chagall Museum in Nice yesterday. Extraordinary, magical, luminous, spiritual, sensual. I'll upload pix when I get home tomorrow #
• RT @jamesurquhart RT @bernardgolden: Good "cloud manifesto" by @staten7. http://ow.ly/1ObP5 #cloudcomputing<This shouldn't be controversial #
• RT @UnitedAirlines Happy bday Tware! Retweet this for chance to win 2 RT tickets to Hawaii! http://tinyurl.com/26ka7rw #twarebday5 #
• Last day of a long trip: 10 days in Shenzhen and a week in Nice. It'll be good to get home tonight. NCE-JFK-SFO will make it a long day, tho #
• TMF #mworld2010 was really valuable. The ECLC ref impl for IaaS could be very significant: #cloud standards driven by real customers! #
• No ash cloud issues, and NCE-JFK gets in 40 minutes early. Am I ungrateful if I think this just makes my layover longer? #
• Why I try to avoid JFK: DL had 8 long-hauls arriving at the same time. Immigration overwhelmed: hundreds of people waiting for over an hour #
• Home sweet home….. #

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• Back on Twitter, finally, after a week! Curse you, Great Firewall of China! Thank you, @publicvpn #
• Finally got around to configuring VPN on my iPad. Nice to rejoin the real web. It feels like the Great Firewall is more active than before #
• Sipping a pint of Boddington's at the "Yorkshire Pudding" on Shelley St. in Hong Kong. Free wifi! Tonight I fly HKG-LHR-NCE, ash permitting! #
• The fog has burned off: I must buy a hat before exploring Hong Kong this afternoon. I can see why people drift in and wind up staying here #
• Arrived in Nice from HKG via LHR, checked in, turned on TV, and the pre-show for the Monaco GP is on. Shower, rehydrate, and soak it up!! #
• There seem to be more commercials during the Grand Prix on TF1 than there are on SpeedTV. Didn't think that was possible…. #
• However the ads on TF1 are significantly more cool than most of those on US tv. Love the Nespresso "falling piano" ad with George Clooney. #

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• Why is commentary on today's science tv so awful? Watching "Kilauea" on PBS; lousy mysticism, awful metaphors, and near-illiterate language #
• On the day I head back to Shenzhen, the NYTimes takes on the mangled English of Chinglish http://nyti.ms/ciaty7 #
• Hmmph!! @CathayPacific just cancelled my window seat and gave me an aisle instead. I argued, and got another window, but w-a-a-y back 🙁 #

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• RT @acroll: IMHO, AMZN model of composed, discrete services […] are the future of private and public IT #interop #
• WTF is #Skype error 5621? Took me 20 minutes and 6-8 attempts before I could dial in to a conference call in China this evening…. #
• Tweaked my itinerary for my May 3-22 RTW trip: I&#39;m going to Shenzhen instead of Xi&#39;an. So it&#39;ll be SFO-HKG-LHR-NCE-JFK-SFO, on CX, BA and DL #
• Looks like @UnitedAirlines and @Continental will tie the knot on Monday. Combined airline will be called United. Hope they keep EconomyPlus. #
• What is it with Tweeters who post cool stuff but mix it up with incessant &quot;thanks for retweets&quot; messages? Think signal-to-noise, people! #
• Monday I&#39;m flying SFO-HKG on @CathayPacific, & I just checked in. Last week: very few open seats – no windows! Today: wide open! I got 31K. #
• I&#39;m nervous, because @CathayPacific Y seats don&#39;t recline – they slide forward and down. Lousy for my back. I swore &quot;never again&quot;, but…. #

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• 15 minutes before boarding my SFO-JFK flight, there are 4 open seats in business class and I'm #4 on the upgrade list…. #
• Oh bleep – the biz seat count dropped to 2 #
• JFK easier than expected: I took the airtrain to Jamaica Station, and I'm now on a LIRR express to Penn Station, two blocks from my hotel #
• Oracle productizes JEOS – running Weblogic "without an OS" in a VM. Claims 33% better transaction rate, which actually sounds embarrassing #
• Oracle #CloudExpo keynote was all about PaaS strategy, with a bit of IaaS. Not a peep about cloud storage services. Strange that…. 😉 #
• Blustering cloud preso by Gross of Unisys, very weak on motivation and all over the map. Main point seems to be to sell fear about security #
• "Unisys Stealth" data security – end-to-end, RBAC-based. Claims immunity to deep packet inspection. Really? OK, useful but not "a new world" #
• BTW, Channel 9 was back on my SFO-JFK red-eye on Sunday – first time since pre-Xmas. One more piece of security theatre bites the dust… #
• I'd hoped that NIST etc. would generate consistency in "cloud" discussions. No such luck. Oracle is particularly guilty of muddying things #
• What is the maximum number of times a presenter can say "Hands up if you've…" before it gets REALLY tedious? #
• After patronizing references to Amazon by Navisite speaker, he proudly described some features that are much less impressive than AWS. FAIL #
• Conference profile: marketers presenting to consultants. Bad fit – consultants ask awkward questions, like real performance numbers #
• Can't log in to free WiFi here at New Yorker Hotel on my iPad because Safari won't scroll the T&Cs frame. #iPad fail or hotel fail? #
• Can't read long posts in Google Reader mobile version on my iPad because Safari won't scroll the post. OK, this is definitely #iPad FAIL #
• How can you hold a Cloud Computing Conference without adequate connectivity?Maybe if they'd attracted a networking vendor as a sponsor…. #
• Nice Azure presentation by my old friend Yousef Khalidi. Right now MS sounds much, MUCH more open and cloud-savvy than, say, Oracle. #
• Finally nailed down my RTW itinerary to visit Xi'an and Nice. SFO-PEK-XIY-PEK-AMS-NCE-JFK-SFO. Six different airlines, three weeks. #
• Useful cloud storage talk at #cloudexpo by the GlusterFS CTO – but not enough tech details of GlusterFS itself! Excessive modesty… #
• And now a VERY interesting #cloudexpo talk on cloud forensics by Aaron Walters of Terramark. Finally some technical meat!! #
• RT @chrisbrogan Good initiative. Hannah's looking for a summer internship. Anyone want to help her? – #
• Enjoying first class service on the Acela from NYC to Boston. An hour and a half gone, two hours to go. Good food and plenty to drink, tho' #
• Did I really read this, or merely dream about it? http://nyti.ms/cRCDVe #
• RT @adriana872 RT @andychannelle: We have free movement of capital, and (most) goods. Why not people? <Pre-wired tribal mammal brains #
• And now a VERY interesting #cloudexpo talk on cloud forensics by Aaron Walters of Terramark. Finally some technical meat!! #
• UA179 BOS-SFO 100% full, no upgrade, but at least I got 8E. Some of the carry-on bags are simply ridiculous – I miss the x-ray m/c templates #

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• Dinner at Vo in Oakland before the Mark Knopfler show at the Paramount. Shaken Beef – mmmmm! #
• First time at the Paramount Theatre – what a wonderfully over-the-top celebration of Art Deco! #
• Who was that shy singer from Alabama who opened for @MarkKnopfler? And who was the brilliant guitarist who accompanied her? #
• 40 years ago I saw Pink Floyd perform "Saucerful of Secrets". Tonight I saw Mark Knopfler perform "Telegraph Road". What more could I want? #
• Picked up BT keyboard; curious if I could use iPad+KB instead of MacBook on my trip to NYC (CloudExpo) & Boston next week. Verdict: no… #
• Reason: can't sync *all* my state (inc.business confidential documents) between iPad and cloud storage (?iWork.com). Close isn't good enough #
• Forget about volcanic ash, global warming, and the War on Terror: here's a real crisis! No more cricket bats!! #
• Changing travel plans: I'm going to Nice next month for TM Forum, but now I'll spend two weeks in Xi'an before flying to France #RTW #

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• Must-read (& widely-tweeted) piece by @rlove on iPad/iPhone v. Android approaches to memory allocation and task mgmt: #
• Just took "Which Crazy Writer Are You?" and got: Edgar Allan Poe! Try it âž” http://cli.gs/dsjXp #
• After four(!) repairs, HP decides to give me a new laptop. But they fix&return the bad one and then send me a box to ship it to recycling… #
• I've decided to attend Cloud Expo in NYC (even though SYS-CON bugs me). I'll take the opportunity to visit family near Boston after the show #

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• Shake, Rattle, Seattle – http://nyti.ms/bGHtAM Good thing I moved – even if I am now a few miles from the San Andreas Fault #
• If you want to join the iPad party… we will be at the Palo Alto University ave store all night starting at 6 pm Friday. (RT @Scobleizer) #
• OK, it's April, so it's probably time to schedule my next trip to China at the end of the month. #
• Bought HP laptop in November; returned for service (same defect) 3 times since then. Got it back today, plugged it in: flash, sizzle, smoke. #
• RT @Carnage4Life: Love @gruber's response to Doctorow's anti-iPad screed – http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/kids_are_all_right #
• Everybody being photographed with everyone else at the iPad party in Palo Alto…. http://twitpic.com/1cwi6z #
• Sitting in front of a cool iPad sign; all the photographers are asking our names for attribution/release purposes http://twitpic.com/1cwrgf #
• The no.1 #ipad question: does anyone know of a commercially available USB hub that implements the "Battery Charging Specification"? #
• Any #ipad users with a Targus ACH81US USB hub? It claims to have two "Always On" ports with "twice the power". Can it charge the iPad? #

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