Excessive traveling means I neglected the links for a few days. Here they are!
- Definition of Cloud Computing
Collected analyst definitions of "cloud computing." - The returns to entrepreneurship
- Observer profile: Mikhail Gorbachev – the forgotten hero of history
"The market came with the dawn of civilisation and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people, there is no contradiction with socialism." - Thirty-five years of women in charge | Jonathan Romain
"They have not just imitated male colleagues but have brought a different work ethic to the rabbinate: as a generalisation, they have proved more collegial and less competitive, and better at listening rather that propounding." - Landmark health bill passes House on close vote
Yeah. They had it coming: "Insurance industry practices such as denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions would be banned, and insurers would no longer be able to charge higher premiums on the basis of gender or medical history. The industry would also lose its exemption from federal antitrust restrictions on price fixing and market allocation." ("We've all got it coming, kid.") - Californian Ideology
It's that whole hacker-anarchist glossy magazine dot.com cash fueled utopia thing: "The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as Wired and Mondo 2000 as well as the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and many others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, thirty-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian Ideology appears to be complete." - Sweetened Yellow Plantains
- Plantains and Plantain Recipes
- Noam Chomsky: 'US foreign policy is straight out of the mafia'
But he is surprised so many people abroad, especially in the third world, are disappointed at how little Obama has changed. "His campaign rhetoric, hope and change, was entirely vacuous. There was no principled criticism of the Iraq war: he called it a strategic blunder. And Condoleezza Rice was black – does that mean she was sympathetic to third world problems?" - 'Civil disobedience has a role to play' | Al Gore
Pretty long piece on Al Gore: not too glowing and with some pointers to critics. As I recall he has 3 giant Apple monitors, which seems like pudding to me. - The many gods of Ilford | Abhinav Ramnarayan
When urban sprawl forces faith to be easier: "Some of the deities are so lined up so choc-a-bloc that you could pray to one god, and then shift your bum slightly and pray to a second." - Spime Watch: are you ready for the Internet of Things?
IBM Smart Planet people should be all over this kind of thing. - RiverMuse – Your IT Infrastructure…… Under New Management
From an email on the topic: "The RiverMuse ES product is available as of today and breaks away from all current market offerings with a novel approach. With an enterprise-experienced, pure pedigree event management team, we have rewritten the next chapter of IT infrastructure management" - What I like about the NoSQL crowd
'And this is what I like about the NoSQL crowd (== implementers, advocates and integrators) . They do not care about established standards. They are not afraid to experiment in a “real environment”. Some of them may focus on a single problem and solve it well. Others may aim at a wider range of problems. But no system is stopped from being developed and deployed because it not “SQL compliant” or not relational.' I've been trying to figure out if the NoSQL crowd represented the tip of a new type of software development – that is, a subtle shift in the way "makers" perceive the job and tasks of developing software and what that means for the rest of the software world – like open source or project management tools. The gut-check to feel out is, "these guys are making weird assumptions and doing strange things that make no sense to me as far as something 'you'd want to do." - Microsoft feels the pain, announces first companywide layoffs | Seattle Times Newspaper
- Subversion Submitted to Become a Project at The Apache Software Foundation
- Readability – An Arc90 Lab Experiment
Hot damn! - Dear Dustin Curtis | Dustin Curtis
"But—and I guess here’s the thing I most wanted to get across—simply doing a home page redesign is a piece of cake. You want a redesign? I’ve got six of them in my archives. It only takes a few hours to put together a really good-looking one, as you demonstrated in your post. But doing the design isn’t the hard part, and I think that’s what a lot of outsiders don’t really get, probably because many of them actually do belong to small, just-get-it-done organizations. But those of us who work in enterprise-level situations realize the momentum even a simple redesign must overcome, and not many, I’ll bet, are jumping on this same bandwagon. They know what it’s like." As one of my old co-workers used to say, "you wanna come down here and chum this shit?"
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