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Is Facebook about to buy Opera? pocket-lint.com/news/45795/fac… <well, this is deeply worrying. I love Opera.#fanboi about 1 hour ago via Tweet Button
@jamesdotcuff I have an old house, the anxiety is crippling.:) Anyway, May showers bring June...uh, alien vistors? #itsallgood about 15 hours ago via web in reply to jamesdotcuff
I'm in the basement(naturally). Either it is now raining or something is terribly, terribly leaking in my house. OK phew, thunder. about 16 hours ago via web
RT @chrismevans RT @rUv: my grammar is not so good this AM.<- hope she feels better soon.<winrar is you! 5:37 AM May 27th via web in reply to chrismevans
@rUv Today is Sunday tho. (kidding. link?) 5:36 AM May 27th via web in reply to rUv
Perfect day; went to the gym. 96% of cardio machines, silent and empty. Faith in humanity: mildly improved. 11:09 PM May 26th via web
@mikerigsby That's a legal stabbing, just sayin' . My best WWF was 108 8:38 PM May 25th via web in reply to mikerigsby
@jamesdotcuff @markimbriaco I think OpenCompute and Ebay's Project Mercury are the flip side- density from bricks to bits.:) 7:30 PM May 24th via web in reply to jamesdotcuff
@markimbriaco Fully agree. high density is going mainstream quickly, most can work with(in) OpenCompute cc @jamesdotcuff 7:08 PM May 24th via web in reply to markimbriaco
@markimbriaco No such animal, IME. It's more about data center design overall. The IT part is a variant of dense compute, more than anything 6:54 PM May 24th via web in reply to markimbriaco
Metztli_IT Google's new transparency platform: dig in…see…details about exactly who is issuing takedowns…top of list?: #Microsoft bit.ly/Lk39R5 6:37 PM May 24th via identica Retweeted by eekygeeky and 1 other
rUv It's not that "Enterprises" don't get cloud. It's that the executives don't care. Most, if not all have some sort of "cloud" strategy. 6:47 PM May 24th via HootSuite Retweeted by eekygeeky and 1 other
@rootwyrm If I can remember who it was, I'll send you the deets. very clever stuff. 5:45 PM May 24th via web in reply to rootwyrm
@rootwyrm I ran across someone provisioning their cloud-style compute via PXE recently. I had all warm fuzzies for a minute :) 5:16 PM May 24th via web in reply to rootwyrm
@rootwyrm @peakscale PXE boot is awesome. Speak ye no words of dire intent against it. (writing that way because it is also very old:)) 4:48 PM May 24th via web in reply to rootwyrm
Have come to the conclusion that some people simply need User Account Control turned on. Scary thought: these people are allowed to drive 4:46 PM May 24th via web
@MeredithLEaton A pleasure. Nice perspective from CloudSigma on my questions. 1:12 PM May 24th via web in reply to MeredithLEaton
HP cloud roadmap briefing. Epic scope. Brain full. 12:23 PM May 24th via web
CurtMonash Vendor: We parallellize, sort of like Hadoop. Me: Why? How much data do you handle? Vendor: Up to 100k rows. Me: Have you tried a netbook? 8:21 PM May 23rd via web Retweeted by eekygeeky and 20 others
albertmohler Here is how to do incalculable damage to our Gospel witness. We must respond with outrage to this message. religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/vid… 9:53 AM May 22nd via Echofon Retweeted by eekygeeky and 186 others

Name Carl Brooks
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Bio IT analyst with 451 Research and Tier 1. Cloud computing and service providers