Links for 01-19-2012

• Romney Didn’t Win Iowa After All. Is It Too Late To Change the Story? | Entertainment | TIME.com - "Romney was leading New Hampshire by a lot anyway, and he went on to win it. But might he have lost a few percentage points from the perception that he had been weakened after Iowa? Maybe. Maybe not. There’s no time machine, no alternate timeline we can visit. If he had lost a few points, though, suddenly we would have been looking at an entirely different narrative: Romney came up just short in Iowa, having gone all in with his campaign in the closing weeks. Then he underperformed in New Hampshire, a state next door to Massachusetts, which he should have won going away. Is he weakened?"
• (404) https://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/predictions-of-what-2011-would-be-like-in-a-1911-n-281tvia - What 2011 will be like from 1911 @amcpherson << surprisingly accurate in many respects
• Obama's Indefensible Pipeline Punt — The American Magazine - RT @nearwalden: Re-tweeting Vaclav Smil's analysis of Keystone XL from last November:
• Why Sharing Passwords With Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend Is A Spectacularly Bad Idea - Forbes - "There is something pure and romantic about the idea of sharing everything, and having no secrets from one another. But it’s romantic the same way that Romeo and Juliet is romantic, in a tragic, horrible, everyone-is-miserable-and-dies-at-the-end kind of way."
• Cisco boasts of 10,000th server customer • Channel Register - "The jury is still out as to whether Cisco Systems' foray into servers hasn't done more harm than good to its overall business, but one thing seems certain: the business is growing. Cisco's iron is competing and the Unified Computing System blade and rack servers cannot be called a failure. Earlier this month, Cisco added its 10,000th server customer and the company, which has been under intense pressure in its core router and switch business in the past two years, wanted to brag a bit about how this business is growing – and about who is buying its server iron."
• Services | Navigating Through The Cloud - RT @rladvisory: - Figuring Cloud Costs: @rladvisory << Good advice
• Figuring Cloud Costs - "The key message here is not to assume that just because it’s Cloud it’s always going to be cheaper than an on-premise equivalent. If you own IT applications and infrastructure that still have some life in them, your switching costs may be far from trivial."
• How a private cloud goes beyond virtualization management | The Pervasive Data Center - CNET News - RT @adjamianinc: Excellent article about private cloud and virtualization, very articulate.
• redhat.com | SOPA and PIPA: Threatening Innovation and Economic Growth - #redhat blog on SOPA & PIPA: "Threatening Innovation and Economic Growth"
• Amazon Takes Another Pass at NoSQL with DynamoDB - ReadWriteCloud
• Yahoo's Yang is gone. That was the easy part | Deep Tech - CNET News - "In the early days of the Web, Yang got a lot of credit. Today, he's getting a lot of the blame, implicit in the 3 percent after-hours rise in Yahoo's stock price that elevated its market capitalization by more than $500 million. Call it the Great Scapegoat theory of history."