Links for 04-27-2010

• Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone - Have to love the pic!
• Backpacking | Cracked.com - A lot of this is pretty true.
• Twitterfountain.com - HP used this for their "twitter fountain" on a monitor at their HP Analyst Summit. May be what I'm looking for in my sunroom.
• Will Cloud Hype, Reality Meet Somewhere in Middle? | Interviews | ITBusinessEdge.com - I sorta get the point he's making about "operations as a service" but it sounds a lot like infrastructure-as-a-service with just a somewhat different pricing model.
• The New DevOps Designers: Cloud and The Big Rethink - Good presentation from James Urquhart.
• Forecast: Expect More Clouds - Chuck's Blog - "If there's one anecdote that perfectly captures the essence of private cloud thinking, it'd be Geir Ramleth's before-and-after story. If you think about it, Bechtel's nomadic population of knowledge workers are a perfect use case for private clouds -- and what lays beyond." Bechtel is very forward looking with desktop virtualization and BYOPC thinking as well for the same reasons.