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a first, motophoto android phone decided to force close phone app on incoming call. failing games ok, failing answer phone not so much 6:15 AM May 25th via web
Read over @rreinitz blog updates. Pretty cool to see ibm's corp services work. 3:38 PM May 24th via Twitter for iPad
making big business decisions is the same as poker. to excel in both you have to be good at making decisions with incomplete information 9:44 AM May 24th via Twitter for Android
bit.ly/IT3Yzr Oracle / relational used without differentation. Web scale apps moved, others not. 1/2 oracle db util still costs full 10:08 AM May 22nd via web
Performance tidbit. Founder Pure Software (had some of the best perf tools in market) went on to be CEO at Netflix linkd.in/vPyHBR 7:57 AM May 22nd via web
Discovered @highscalability blog via @monkchips. Awesome blog! 4:40 PM May 21st via Twitter for iPad
Sitting at the pool watching over the kids swimming while learning about cloud dev. Cool or sad? 4:11 PM May 21st via Twitter for iPad
@HiltonHelp @HiltonOnline Hilton websites for booking rewards travel have been failing constantly for me for two days 3:10 PM May 21st via web
@aaronquirk Similar, but why is a cold beer perfection, where-as warm beer is .. well unbearable (except in UK) 12:42 PM May 21st via web in reply to aaronquirk
wow, going to any major website is eye opening about how many cross web tracking mechanisms are in effect 12:34 PM May 21st via web
experimenting with do not track plus chrome extension.. for some reason never really payed attention to this privacy concern and solutions 12:32 PM May 21st via web
@smalljones I would ask a different question. when will ipad be easily field service able or drop in price enough to donate broken ones? 8:45 AM May 21st via Twitter for Android in reply to smalljones
is it just me or is the half-life of the new developer technologies decreasing. Just a reflection on cloud work of late. 8:36 AM May 21st via Twitter for Android
jeffhuber The new world of IT: Developers rule the Cloud - Excellent (long) summary of the new world highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/7/… (via @adrianco) 7:20 PM May 16th via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by aspyker and 21 others
rsciampacone If you want to be a leader, stop giving answers. Instead, start asking questions that lead to the right answers. 3:50 PM May 18th via web Retweeted by aspyker and 1 other
@ma4jpb happily andrew is home 5:47 AM May 18th via Twitter for Android in reply to ma4jpb
edrabbit Why is Facebook going public? They couldn't figure out the privacy settings either. 2:24 PM May 17th via Echofon Retweeted by aspyker and 5344 others
Take off in the nighttime Thursday. Land at sun up Friday. Want to keep going east to skip all of Friday. 3:54 AM May 18th via Twitter for Android
Middle seat for cross country overbooked red eye flight #notwinning 10:00 PM May 17th via Twitter for iPad
Pssst.... You over there at San Jose airport bar. You're not sounding very smart discussing Facebook with your salad. Hang up ;) 9:22 PM May 17th via Twitter for iPad