jamesurquhart
Two posts yesterday: http://blog.jamesurquhart.com Blog format and designing for failure.
| On my way to SLC and home. |
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| Should I change my blogging style? Http://blog.jamesurquhart.com |
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| With John Powell and Matt Asay at dinner on Salt Lake City. |
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| OK, off to bed. Emery was up all night last night, so I have several hours of sleep to catch up on. |
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| Open source standards (if they indeed exist) allow new "lifeforms" to eat the lunch of stogier competitors, without breaking existing users. |
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| Personally, I think proprietary is great as long as its differentiated and reliable. If either of those breaks down, then proprietary sucks. |
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| Is open and portable really as important as we engineers like to say it is? Kudos to @monkchips for raising this point. |
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| The Q&A session at the end brings up a very interesting question: if open and portable is so important, why are so many choosing Macs? |
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| Watching @swardley's swan (er, duck?) song: http://tinyurl.com/5rn7hr |
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| Two b-day parties in four hours, located 10 miles and 1000 feet from one another. 1 farm theme and 1 pool party , all in fog. Wheeeeee! |
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| @VitoD What the heck. I'm game. Good luck on the quest from Alameda. |
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| London cloudcamp must have been a huge success! http://snurl.com/30575 |
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| Just put down my thoughts about the possible effects that Cisco's Nexus switches could have on the cloud: http://tinyurl.com/woc-cisco |
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| Someone must already have a solution for that, though... (and don't say FriendFeed! :-) |
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| What I want next from Twitter: ability to query following/followers, i.e. "Which "following" friends are not also "followers"? |
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| @swardley You might find this interesting, though, especially #'s 8-10: http://tinyurl.com/57g2b9 |
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| @swardley Sorry to have lost you to the conversation, but good luck! |
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| @dgourlay Very good. Some real eye opening stuff about networking. RE privateclouds: you may want to check out http://tinyurl.com/5vuzuw |
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| @ciscoDC Changed it about 2-3 months ago or so. Was "Service Level Automation in the Datacenter" Somehow wasn't getting search hits. :-) |
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