Links for 01-18-2013

• If Dr. Seuss Books Were Titled According to Their...
• Protecting against cloud outages with Aeolus | Aeolus Project Blog
• New TPC Benchmark Compares Virtual Workloads - CIO.com
• Resiliency and reliability, the devil is in the details — Tech News and Analysis
• Devops, complexity and anti-fragility in IT: An introduction — Tech News and Analysis - "Reconciling the two views of the world means exploring three core concepts required to understand why a new IT model is emerging, but not necessarily replacing everything about the old model."
• The Art of Ofey: Richard Feynman's Sketches and Drawings | Brain Pickings
• ReadWrite – ReadWrite Survey Results: What A Typical BYOD Program Really Looks Like - In other words, use and pay for your own device if you like. "Companies pay for the BYOD devices at less than 10% of the companies responding. Workers and the company share costs at another quarter (27%) of responding organizations. Only 10% of companies buy the devices for their employees."
• Amazon Fails To Woo Developers - Business Insider - I didn't see this piece at time of AWS re:Invent. Talk about whiny and entitled
• American Malted Whiskeys Win Acclaim - NYTimes.com - Not much, that is, until last month, when a single-malt whiskey from the Balcones Distillery in Waco bested nine others, including storied Scottish names like the Balvenie and the Macallan, in a blind panel of British spirits experts.
• How to Upgrade Your MacBook Pro to an SSD | Mactuts+
• Branko's Thought Dump: On the state of Windows on the desktop - Pretty funny.
• 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Stephen Hemminger | Linux.com
• SPONSORED: The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - Hilarious. Re: Atlantic “@mkapor: SPONSORED: The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement | The Onion ”
• Public Cloud Services Selection – 3 New Things — CIO Dashboard
• Fedora 18 is out and it’s Cloudy | The Cloud Evangelist - RT @EMEACloudGuy: #Fedora is out and it's Cloudy - heres my take and some tips
• If you lose your cellphone, don't blame Wayne Dobson - News - ReviewJournal.com - What a bizarre story.
• HP CEO Meg Whitman Counting on Executive Vice President John Hinshaw to Manage Corporate Costs - The CIO Report - WSJ - "Encouraged by the Salesforce.com implementation, Mr. Hinshaw has begun replacing other legacy software with cloud alternatives."
• The Minimum Viable Kitchen
• Expedia Rewards Warns Us of Unspecified Changes Coming Throughout 2013 - View from the Wing - "They even use my absolute least favorite word when referring to any loyalty program: enhance. I have almost never seen anything positive correlate with the use of that word. Memo to all loyalty marketing executives — whenever you actually do something positive, don’t call it an ‘enhancement’ because we won’t believe you — the word has been so abused by your colleagues to mask “taking away the things you care about most.”"