Monday, November 25, 2013

Afternoon mental health break: Missing dialogue from Star Trek

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from ath716 : Missing dialogue from Star Trek: Kirk: "Scottie I need full power!" Scottie: "We'll need 6 weeks in spacedo...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Links for 11-21-2013

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Why Do I Always Wake Up 5 Minutes Before My Alarm Goes Off? | Mental Floss Twitter / PatrickMoorhead: Like I've said, there isn't .....

Video: Hybrid cloud and software-defined storage

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I had a clip during a Red Hat Storage Server (Gluster) webcast a while back. I talk about why distributed software-only storage is especi...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Red Hat Open Hybrid Cloud: My ASEAN presentation and text

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This presentation on Open Hybrid Clouds is a version of the one I gave at Red Hat Forum in Asia in October 2013. So let's get started....

Links for 11-20-2013

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DaaS Floodgates Open, but the River Behind Them is Dry | Andi Mann – Ubergeek - "Plus in any case, this is early days for Workspaces, ...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Links for 11-18-2013

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Burkhard Bilger: Inside Google’s Driverless Car : The New Yorker - "Not everyone finds this prospect appealing. As a commercial for th...

Parsing USGS river conditions in JSON

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Over the summer, I wrote a post about writing an application for OpenShift by Red Hat  to display current USGS river levels on an interact...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Links for 11-15-2013

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The Depth of Amazon’s Ambition – tecosystems - "Big picture, re:Invent was an expansion of ambition from Amazon. Its sights are even b...

AWS refreshed take on the enterprise and a thought on innovation

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I didn't make it out to AWS re:Invent this year but I've been following along virtually using this thing called the Internet. A few...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Links for 11-14-2013

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Chart: The Family Tree of Bourbon Whiskey Worst Client Comments Turned Into Posters | Bored Panda Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather O...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Pro Tip for speaker notes

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Going back pretty much as far as I remember, putting together speaker notes for a deck of slides (or, worse, trying to cajole someone else i...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

Gartner: OpenStack seen as mitigating proprietary clouds

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I like this line in a CIO article by Joab Jackson : In a recently published survey of its clients, IT research firm Gartner found that OpenS...

Learning about DevOps from Science Fiction

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What we can learn about DevOps from Science Fiction: Ignite Format from Dawn Foster I saw @geekygirldawn give this presentation ea...

Arthur's Seat

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Arthur's Seat , a photo by ghaff on Flickr. I hiked up to Arthur's Seat when I was in Edinburgh for CloudOpen Europe. Both Arthur...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

My Red Hat Open Hybrid Cloud keynote from ASEAN

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This video's a slightly abridged and amended version of the presentation that I did at the Red Hat Forum in ASEAN during October. I ta...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Links for 11-05-2013

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Outsource Your Way to Success - NYTimes.com Why Can't We Let Go of Julia Child, M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, and the Myth of French Foo...

CloudForms 3.0, OpenStack, and Amazon Web Services. Oh my!

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 Sadly, I couldn't make it to Hong Kong for the OpenStack Summit , but there's lots of interesting news coming out of the event. I...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Links for 11-04-2013

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SousVide Supreme Blog | Sous Vide Cooking: sous vide recipes, sous vide information, sous-vide cooking at home Megan McArdle on How Luxury W...
Friday, November 01, 2013

Why it's not about containers "winning" or "losing"

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About a month ago, I cranked out a long blog post about containers and how they came about. In a nutshell, containers virtualize an OS; the...

Controlling Clouds: Beyond Safety presentation

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I gave this presentation at CloudOpen Europe in Edinburgh earlier this month. Here's the abstract: As an industry, we’ve mostly move...

Running Google+ Hangouts: Tips and Tricks

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Goggle+ Hangouts seem to be a "thing" these days. I'm a bit ambivalent about them myself. I confess to finding low to middling...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Links for 10-31-2013

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Michael Arrington, Jenn Allen, and the Dark Side of the Information Age | Vanity Fair Char Kuey Teow | Char Kuey Teow Recipe | Easy Asian Re...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Links for 10-18-2013

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Ohio State U. Lets MOOC Students Grade Peer-Graders - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - "One way to improve peer grad...