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I read a few passages from this book while doing background research on “five nines” reliability. This led me to find that the print book is now $200-$300 which is particularly ironic considering the book’s title. An even bigger curiosity is: has this book has any real impact? Are we moving to a more distributed model of power generation? The recent announcement of bulk solar installations on military base housing seems like a move in this direction. Has there been a real change in direction? It seems like the big guys are still trying to build more megaplants, but maybe the real action is projects that get little notice. ...

Note: linked-in didn’t give me any more than this so I’m not sure which article this was referencing now. This is well written and entertaining. But the author has focused on symptoms and missed the fundamental problem which is that half of what gets said in this business is BS from posers. And the people that know it is BS just chuckle and let it pass and the people that don’t know it is BS are managers and choosing where money goes. Jargon is vital for communicating with each other, but it should never be used with the muggles. Don’t say “Windows SLA depends on regular antivirus, antimalware, and other updates and checks by an APLUS technician.” Instead say, “Using Windows for real work requires a full-time mechanic.” Everybody can understand that and decide accordingly.

Location: Hog Wild Smokehouse Address: 8864 Richmond Road West Picking up Turducken Shared with: Public +1’d by: Glenn Gilley Comments Gwendolyne Kelly - 2011-11-30T01:33:25Z For real? You had turducken? Christopher Hicks - 2011-11-30T15:34:04Z Yes. I’m working on writing a review.

Nicely put. Do you have time to read it? Originally shared by Alan Liddell Inspiration The image says Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank. Its name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “tomorrow.” You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today. ...

How amused can I be that the AdSense v3 UI doesn’t come up at all with chrome under Linux, but it works fine with Firefox? Hmmm, lol. Shared with: Public

Android is eating the phone market impressively fast. Maybe open is better than closed. Who could have guessed? Links The One Chart You Need To See To Understand Mobile Shared with: Public, Comments Christopher Hicks - 2011-11-21T16:06:25Z +Heart Spring interesting. I haven’t seen any Mac or Android malware in the wild, but I will keep a keener eye out for it now.

These people have serious problems when they can’t even let somebody pay for the Santa out of his own pocket without making it into an ethics issue. Links Strapped county sacks Santa to save $660 Shared with: Public +1’d by: Liz Quilty

Breaking News! Film at 11! Prohibitionists are irrational zealots on a mission who have no interest in science, effectiveness, treatment, or reality. Oh, wait, that’s not surprising or news. Plus they have no clue about history either, since they forget that The Prohibition increased corruption and distrust in government so strongly that we have never recovered from the effects. So, for you readers and thinkers here’s more fodder to throw at the idiots protecting our precious snowflakes. I hope it helps eventually. ...

This outage was broader than just Time Warner, but the news outlets seem to be unaware of that. Originally shared by Ray of Sunshine* Time Warner Cable just had a nationwide internet outage. Details to come. http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/time-warner-suffers-nation-wide-internet-outage/ Links http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/time-warner-suffers-nation-wide-internet-outage/ Time Warner suffers nation-wide Internet outage http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-November/041666.html http://status.vr.org/2011-11-07-level3-global-failure/ http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/juniper-fail-seen-as-culprit-in-site-outages-10024743/ Shared with: Public Comments Christopher Hicks - 2011-11-07T17:24:08Z http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-November/041666.html Christopher Hicks - 2011-11-07T17:32:40Z http://status.vr.org/2011-11-07-level3-global-failure/ Christopher Hicks - 2011-11-07T18:07:29Z http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/juniper-fail-seen-as-culprit-in-site-outages-10024743/

An excellent distillation of what rational conversation should be. Now we need to convince lots of people that rational conversation is personally and selfishly beneficial. Originally shared by Chris Munro Links A flowchart to help you determine if you’re having a rational discussion Shared with: Public +1’d by: Scarlett Moore Comments Scarlett Moore - 2011-11-06T21:07:11Z Yeah, I am learning that the hard way, some conversations just need to be avoided. The ones where nothing you can say will even be considered, because they are so dead set on their own point of view, everyone else is wrong >.< ...