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I have been a huge fan of the remarkable Randy Pausch for a while now.I decided to put together a collage of best quotes from both the video and the book.

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A list of ten enterprises using cloud computing.

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Remember, when you assume that everyone is an aaS, you make an aaS out of you and me.

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Can cloud technology improve a Drupal implementation?

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Is like me trying to sing RAP music. Last night Businessweek posted an article about “Clouds”.

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When I asked my oncologist if I could go scuba diving, he thought for a while and said, “Medically, I can’t think of any reason you can’t …. but I have to admit, it’s not a question

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Alan Ganek the Chief Technology Officer of Tivoli software & VP of Autonomic Computing picked the wrong day to give an un-prepared “Blue Cloud” presentation yesterday

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Ten really useful open source tools that are useful for education.

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When stealth startups are getting second round funding and 23 year old Harvard drop outs become billionaires.

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While all other cloud vendors are trying to justify using “Cloud” in their name vendors like Elastra, RigthScale, and 3Tera are walking the walk.

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A comprehensive list and categorization of Cloud Computing Vendors

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I wanted to install one of the open source monitoring tools on Amazon's EC2 and ... I also said I might install OpenNMS as well. Doug’s response to installing OpenNMS on a cloud was why.

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While reading another Gartner Smartner article this evening I started thinking what went wrong over there. How did they become so insignificant.

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First of there are three kinds of clouds and when you are talking about a cloud technology you need to be specific.

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when Melissa Gira Grant Valleywag.com starts commenting on Sudhir Venkatesh I think of the scene in the Big Lebowski where John Goodman is yelling at Donnie telling him he is out of his element.

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A little over a month ago I switched my blog site over from Amazon’s EC2 to Mosso.com in preparation of some viral activities Mosso has supported my traffic fluctuations brilliantly.

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Oh, here’s the best part, standard prices include a 3.5 GPA however for an additional $75 you can get a 4.0. In an enterprise/web 2.0 world why hasn’t Harvard and Yale figured this model out.

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I’ll take five. Do they have kid sizes? Can I get a discount for family pack. How about one for my wifes stupid dog Stevie Ray Willis?

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The non Botchanomic manager will want you to show him the ROI. My god, the Botchanomic manager already knows the ROI and is desperately seeking a service.

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A simple bot demo goes nuts. The bot jumps the parking lot curve almost eats one of the Barcamp attendees then proceeds to start destroying someones air conditioner.

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“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” - Jonathan Swift

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This blog site was down for about 20 minutes today. It looks like Mosso lost a MySQL cluster this morning. Just keeping it real, I had Amazon EC2 for 90 days and I had zero outages.

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Top 10 things I like and dislike about Canada

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Market myopia, cloud and Drupal talk. A few podcasts and some silly stuff as well.

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This is a very cool article on how to install Drupal on an XO (OLPC).

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Let me set the stage for this slide show. A customer was involved in a long and intense beta program and as a reward the vendor sent six mugs in a unpacked box. Only three of the six mugs survived.

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I am in the process of completing a 25 page white paper that describes the seven technologies that are going to disrupt legacy enterprise IT.

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“Five Nines (99.999) equates to 25 plane crashes a year” speech. I am sure she is explaining to someone right now about how last Fridays Amazon’s S3 outage was the equivalent of 34 plane crashes.

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Don’t you just love Captcha’s? CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test”. I just call them PITA (pain in the ass). Here are my top 10 worst Captcha’s ever

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I guess it’s 99. today for Amazon S3 customers. Man do I have timing or what. We literally moved this blog site server off of AWS this week in preparation for our move over to Mosso this weekend.

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