RT @richardbarrow: best Talking Thai/English Dictionary for iPhone/iPad http://ping.fm/CGOJr thailand travel

Hmm, didn't know that Dianping is the Chinese Yelp http://j.mp/fchExl #大众点评

Amazon working on a method to avoid receiving unwanted gifts! http://j.mp/e6J935

Q:How do we get rid of these toxic Merrill Lynch securities? A: Form a new group in ML and pay them to take them http://j.mp/gDoKKK

Turns out that mechanical portion of book scanning, turning pages and taking image, is about as fast manually as auto http://j.mp/gOyhJl

100K financial transaction per second; <1ms latency http://j.mp/eqdKo6 <-deep hardware, storage, app model/thread design oltp

DIY book scanning http://j.mp/gXvetR

Aircraft carrier launch without steam turbines using roller coaster catapult launch tech http://j.mp/hfttMC

Best Western opens 44 room hotel in Vientiane Laos travel

Historic Saturday Night Live (SNL) episodes available on Netflix Instant highlighted http://j.mp/e73NNT

Chrome CR-48 screen resolution: 1280W x 800H, WXGA 16:10

Is it sociologically or psychologically to have prosthetic limbs that are at least vaguely human? http://bit.ly/fmgvpY

Chrome Cr-48 demolition lab http://j.mp/g9KHQ5

Construction of 3rd & 4th bridges between Thailand & Laos underway travel http://j.mp/el546T

Chrome CR-48: Using webcam: open www.picnik.com > Library > Webcam Photo [Grant Flash permission]. Preview picture seems very pixelated

Chrome Cr-48: Google is developing a free service called Chromoting to remotely access existing PCs and Macs http://j.mp/fkufhn

RT @insideHPC: Berkeley LBL Develops Flexible Reservation Algorithm for Network Provisioning - OSCARS ESnet http://bit.ly/hPAN5N

Possible problems with Google NGrams for scholarly uses: OCR & metadata http://j.mp/hJQyCT <-crank up the lagging humanities tech

Why Google Can Enter Video Conferencing - VoIP Watch http://j.mp/fNLOyJ

datacenter - eBay uses watts/transaction as a common metric for applications & operations http://j.mp/f9AQm9

SGI Air-Cooled Modular DataCenter - 35kw/rack! http://ping.fm/tkKFK

datacenter conferences evaluated: Yes(DataCenterDynamics, Uptime, and 7X24 Exchange); No(Gartner) http://j.mp/gmFjyc

RT @sharad_ag: @loggly cloud based server management system with hadoop, solr, lucene http://bit.ly/gSLqei

iOS 4.2 (iPhone 4 only?) Fast Dormancy to reduce chatty signaling traffic & carrier load http://j.mp/geew3E

Google Demo Slam http://j.mp/fur9FJ

Chrome Cr-48 Shipping Tracker http://j.mp/ia5vsu

China finances restoration of Ta Keo Angkor site Cambodia http://j.mp/eUr3fl

New Siem Reap Cambodia (Angkor) airport will include a new city & industrial estate. http://j.mp/gCvrQj

Google has scanned >11% of published books, about 2*10¹² words. Initial data analysis on 4% http://j.mp/hcmtJl

Netflix at AWS cloud lessons learned: higher instance failure; unpredictable network latency http://j.mp/gD0DGD

Netflix uses AWS, which is somewhat surprising. I wonder what their pipe to Level 3 is. cloud http://j.mp/hhyqFY

Why exactly is my primary storage for music & photos on a local PC disk and not in the, uhh, cloud?

Chrome "Flags" is like Gmail labs. They are beta addons to enable certain functions, like Media Player playing music in ChromeOS

Apparently 40K VoIP lines is the floor, magic number for feasibility HandWaveAnalysis

Google fiber community award announcements delayed until 2011 http://j.mp/fKWZCb <-only thing predictable about any fiber project is delay

Nice discussion of The Social Network in the NYT beyond the usual dumbass retread comments http://j.mp/eGOxzk

Great story from Ray Manzarek about the Doors 1969 Miami concert, totally evocative of the time http://j.mp/gPIiea

What's the global social value of "outsourcing" day trading to China? http://j.mp/hR0fFU

Google CloudPrint enable cheatsheet - needs Chrome 9 http://j.mp/hBIwaY

Diversifying a bond portfolio from an overweighted index, $BND, using ETFs http://j.mp/gcfzt3 financial

Road & rail major route upgrades proposed for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos http://j.mp/gvotQo

Wikileaks network durability http://j.mp/gzCH7f

Beerlao outlets in the San Francisco Bay Area http://j.mp/hEBAnD laos

Mint Data - average purchases by city, business http://j.mp/hMjsE5 financial

Thomson / Abadi - ACID RDBMS problems; possibly how to fix them without NoSQL http://j.mp/gapn0P pacelc programming

Test drive a Chrome notebook. – Google http://j.mp/dWe0xU

Vietnam and Cambodia to make border map http://j.mp/h3Xm7W

RT @abnerg: ...facebook...deliver video at scale http://ping.fm/rAwRb <-considers case of channel surfing video streams!

UK Foreign Secretary: investigation into death of British aid worker in Afghanistan during US led hostage rescue http://j.mp/g4ldzb

Interesting note in NPR story: "military lawyers...have to approve an operation to capture or kill someone" http://j.mp/hhf6Ck

NY Times rediscovers Lee Marvin in Point Blank (1967) - http://ping.fm/NzI35 movies <-much better than the review

GIS, Google Maps, Ubisense http://j.mp/gdUvE9 <-possibly of use with fiber cable path maps

Using parasitic worms to mitigate human intestinal disease http://ping.fm/3QKxm medicine

Voip.ms - Worldwide VoIP Origination and Termination http://j.mp/eGEGJX travel phones <-Flyertalk http://j.mp/epxRhH

RT @jalegre: Wow, way cool site => Ben the Bodyguard. Coming soon to iPhone and iPod touch http://bit.ly/eI89YS

RT @VMwareArchitect: PCI-Compliant Cloud Reference Architecture; Cisco, Coalfire, HyTrust, Savvis, VMWare http://bit.ly/ekWq9m

Frommer London & San Francisco free iPhone apps http://bit.ly/f5WsdI travel

RT @lonniehodge: People's Daily (!): As China rises, its people grow arrogant http://ping.fm/ytvbU

Optimizing internet peering relationships probably could use network (not datacomm) graph tech http://j.mp/eG2c9z

Interactive USA Development visualization http://j.mp/ebJhfI

RT @rgaidot: Google Trends: Hadoop versus Big Data versus MapReduce hadoop bigdata mapreduce http://bit.ly/hvhwnn

Agents of Secret Stuff movie premiering online http://ping.fm/BZ9hz

Kunming China to Yangon Myanmar high speed (170+km/h) rail construction to begin 2011 http://bit.ly/f7nJNy

Google App Engine Issues

Carlos Ble tries Google App Engine and finds shortcomings for his application. Useful comments on his post.

Comprehensive New York Times Blog Post on Current Airport Security Issues

NYT FiveThirtyEight blog by Nate Silver discusses airport security and current public backlash.

Some excerpts:

• short mention of false positives
• derivation of basis for statement "My guess is that the fraction of Americans who travel by plane each year is in fact probably not more than about 1 in 3." As opposed to "Gallup poll conducted in 2008, for instance, found that just 44 percent of Americans reported having flown at least once in the past year."
• frequent fliers — those who take 4 or more round trips per year — account for the 57 percent majority of all air travel, even though they make up just 18 percent of air travelers and something like 7 percent of the overall American population.

Unclear where frequent flyer = 4 or more round trips/year came from.

I need to pay more attention to the 100G WAN stuff such as LBL's http://j.mp/a0FZwD

iPhone + Google Voice screened calls + driving = not so good

Alternate reality plans from 1942 of Nazi invasions of North America http://j.mp/aihzRc

Photos of disappearing China http://j.mp/9kfRVL

Syrian Military Area

including missiles (or missile decoys) in Syria

Interesting read on cyber thieves http://ping.fm/hyylR security

Protein sports drinks probably don't add to exercise, especially event, performance http://ping.fm/BmQS4

Laos abandons plans for Vientiane-Nong Khai rail to avoid duplication with planned China-Lao-Thai high speed rail http://bit.ly/bH095c

Saw Inception again at $1 movies. Feel like the pig in the YouTube mashup, "You're talking about dreams..." http://ping.fm/8vdJh

Didn't know about Chrome Profiles http://bit.ly/9iXaTk

GMail and GCal don't display (for me) with apparently just dropped Chrome 8.0.552.28 beta, Windows 7

Google Map Maker Africa Conference 2010 africamm http://j.mp/9d8DkS maps

F3X Optical Network Fiber Fault Finder Gun http://j.mp/9wnXF3 <-wonder if this works

Mapping Resource Links

Some mapping references:

• Open, geographic information systems at Geonames.org
• National Geospatial Program Standards
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• NGA Geonames

(3 Nov 10)

RT @AndyBrouwer: You Khin Guesthouse [art gallery] Phnom Penh http://bit.ly/akNWAA travel cambodia

Violent housing evictions and reported land grabs map plotted in China http://bit.ly/bgiklc

BitTorrent Effects on a Starbucks-AT&T Hotspot http://bit.ly/bID09N

RT @SlackistanMovie: http://bit.ly/cUkhht US west coast premiere 5 Nov 9.30p Brava Theatre, San Francisco http://bit.ly/biBBW

Periodic review of Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator video to see what's left to get there from here http://j.mp/9QmFnl tech

iPhone on AT&T and Verizon analysis; Verizon smartphone use more data today; dual GSM/CDMA iPhone? http://ping.fm/UQmTf

Thomas Cook Overseas [non Europe] rail, bus, ferry timetable reported to suspend publication http://ping.fm/S8jtc travel

Google Music India ! currently Hindi only http://bit.ly/96eyOa

Netflix transition to Amazon AWS SimpleDB & S3 high availability storage systems http://bit.ly/cherOc

Emerging preferred camouflage color "dark earth" http://bit.ly/boZF7S military

Analysis of Apple deprecation of Apple produced runtime Java; 3rd party Java install structure laid out http://bit.ly/b7u7ao

Passenger rail service in Cambodia to resume (with basic map showing main SEAsia rail routes) http://bit.ly/bWC5l2 travel

Qwiki Alpha invites. TechCrunch Disrupt top winner http://ping.fm/z8ACn

Africa land area larger than China, USA, India, Europe combined http://bit.ly/9aUiQe

Hipmunk - Flight search visualization http://bit.ly/cHvl62 travel

China unveils its own version of Google Earth - Guardian http://bit.ly/9ZF0td maps

Didn't know you can ask for chopped chili peppers on In-N-Out burgers. I've just been getting the packets. http://j.mp/9d3qd7

tldr.it - feed & URL content summarization; "ADD approved news reading" http://j.mp/ba4tqN

Burmese font for Windows 7 - Padauk http://j.mp/d3xp9x Burma Myanmar

Huh?! Homemade SLR camera! http://bit.ly/9GVnOi GeekOut

Lao Air opens Pakxe-HCM City route Tues/Thurs/Sat Laos Vietnam travel

Chinese executive MBA business school in Africa - Economist http://j.mp/d0dkoA

Preah Vihear political map based on 2008 joint communique http://j.mp/cobBRz cambodia thailand

Preah Vihear with Political Map

This article from The Mirror includes a map from the Joint (Thai, Cambodian, UNESCO) Communique 

Jobs discusses tablet screen size, Android development challenges, why Apple doesn't distribute cash http://j.mp/bFNKhO

Spider versus millipede observed, with an interesting escape http://bit.ly/aLB7Wd

Garmin chirp Review - GPS beacon - 1 year battery - 1-10m range - US$20 http://bit.ly/bT2CDy

Buddhist Temples of Ancient Pagan, Burma / Myanmar

Resolution of the plain near Pagan, Burma / Myanmar is improving enough to map some of the 3,000+ Buddhist temples using Google Map Maker, OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia.

Here's a GMM partial view of the region with some of the sites mapped.  The Panoramio photos of this area are generally poorly geo-located, but here's a view.

Pierre Pichard did an 8 volume inventory of the monuments for UNESCO, which apparently aren't available online except in snippet form.  The inventory includes lat/lon of each site to 3 decimal places.  I don't know how the surveying was done.

Probably should cancel AT&T data service for iPad and just use Verizon mifi as hot spot. I'm grandfathered for both, but AT&T is a waste.

Surfing the Qiantang river tidal bore in Hangzhou China http://bit.ly/cYzmd1

Zuckerberg at Facebook says he's taking daily Chinese language lessons China http://ping.fm/URyOy

digital camera with GPS comparison http://bit.ly/d3FduH

Trans oceanic data flows by language affinity and submarine cable planning http://bit.ly/brWxor

No more walking across ceramic sunflower seed replicas art installation at Tate Modern http://ping.fm/ihZVp

Recycled water for datacenter http://bit.ly/9NP1sX <-generally no recycled water transmission/distribution

Need a guide to military imagery interpretation for this Syria missile base - Hezbollah training site http://bit.ly/aEKikn

Use academic literature; Plan for failure; Disk tech matters (SSD); Large data sets need horizontal scalability http://bit.ly/djK4Mo

Garmin Chirp geocaching beacon; 1 yr battery; 10m range http://bit.ly/byQCsF

Wikileaks funding impaired after Moneybrokers terminates relationship http://bit.ly/bQrDaT

DRT co-lo top 20 occupants - sites, sq ft, % net rentable sq ft, rent, % annualized rent, lease term http://j.mp/bh0HYg datacenter

Only in China: police minders bargain on behalf of dissident while shopping http://ping.fm/S6FRD

Google creates inflation measure - cost of goods sold online - forecast using realtime search? http://bit.ly/cVnXVN economics

Tate Modern's New Art Installation: 100M Hand-Painted [ceramic] Sunflower Seeds http://ping.fm/cy21U London #!

Garment industry minimum wage by country shows China (Guangdong region) not that cheap http://bit.ly/cHrZMA

Carlos - NYT movie review http://j.mp/a7NI1L

Get Free Wi-Fi from FedEx Office at all locations by 1 Nov 10 http://j.mp/cRd8Qs

Video interviews with dissenters http://j.mp/9WoSTN Burma Myanmar

‘The Simpsons’ Explains Its Button-Pushing Banksy Opening http://j.mp/bQxwwT

B747 low pass over Golden Gate bridge video http://j.mp/brvSOm cool

The dietary culture of Asia (Asia Society; 2008) http://bit.ly/bAknlu

Value of Burma Foreign Exchange Certificates (FEC) falling.Discontinued after November 2010 election? http://bit.ly/daO4kI Myanmar travel

530km Trans-Asian rail section from Xishuangbanna China to Vientiane Laos to begin work 28 Oct 2010 http://bit.ly/bLkJJm

Ooo, didn't know I could convert dumb paper US Savings Bonds to electronic form http://bit.ly/db6Nmr financial

Maxpedition Sitka didn't work out as a business travel messenger bag substitute. iPad + Thinkpad x61s (12.1") fit ok. http://bit.ly/btuRDP

RFID tags for IT equipment http://bit.ly/91nZJg datacenter

Low power, multi core servers in the enterprise http://bit.ly/dgNfBX cloud datacenter

Pakse Laos airport reopened 1 June 2010. Now supports 737 & A320 travel bit.ly/aHpLFJ

Pakse Laos airport reopened 1 June 2010. Now supports 737 & A320 travel

Thirsty koalas (1/2009) http://bit.ly/aj1LhB

Inside Job, a documentary on the Wall Street looting of the economy
http://ping.fm/lc7eS

Kampot to Phnom Penh Cambodia railway service reopened. Freight only for now bit.ly/ayYYC7 travel

Cue YouTube - append URL #t=XmYs (ex: #t=2m3s)

Burma Myanmar links http://bit.ly/cAuo77 travel

Free market: new Facebook friends $197/1K or Twitter followers $87/1K http://bit.ly/dg4zgP

Tom Stoppard - "Night and Day" at Greenhouse Theater, Chicago, ends 10/31 - WSJ review bit.ly/c5VnWx

Inventory of monuments at Pagan by Pierre Pichard http://bit.ly/9RfQxm burma myanmar

goo.gl Tips

Here's an added bonus tip from Googler Matt Cutts: if you add .qr to the end of any goo.gl-shortened URL, you get a QR code instead of the URL. For example: http://goo.gl/LFwS.qr

If you add "info/" before the short-code, you will give info of where it will send you.


For instance:
URL: goo.gl/LFwS
Preview: goo.gl/info/LFwS

Reinstalled Picasa 3.8 after deleting database and face scanning is working again

Chrome - Added about:labs as a tab to open daily to see what's new

Dot-com bust finally behind optical telecom market http://bit.ly/achVgQ network

Japanese salaryman performance art. Or maybe dance. Oh, I don't know what it is. http://ping.fm/3jrMV

Tilera - plans 10K cores in 8kw rack http://bit.ly/ci9Guc cloud datacenter

Checking out Plannr - reported Google acquisition http://bit.ly/9EqA7k

Looks like no history for goo.gl link shortening

I understand legacy IT in space, but why is air traffic control in the stone age with all the voice control? http://bit.ly/cRRtR4

US drones target terror plot in Pakistan to avert attack in West http://bit.ly/dmLau0

Foreclosure Wave Hits *Cash* Buyers, Too http://bit.ly/c6aabV WTF financial <-Why does anyone thing bank management is competent?

Segway Chief Dies in Segway Accident http://ping.fm/kXVkO

Spitzer: Why did the government buy AIG shares? It should have bought shares of companies who got 100 cents for $1 investment financial

Global air particulate visualization http://bit.ly/b9Fzny pollution

Today: import your oil from Middle East. Tomorrow: import your electric car from China http://ping.fm/MzsDb

James Gosling on .NET, IBM, iPads, Oracle, sale of Sun http://bit.ly/bsjIid technology <-database comment seems off

Dura Europos - historical monument in Syria http://bit.ly/DuraEuropos

China middle class woes - Salary is 10 times what it was 10 years ago. Why am I tense?http://bit.ly/bisced

Influence of special interests in China - Evan Osnos http://ping.fm/zEzML

Laos - new airport and train station planned for Luang Prabang http://bit.ly/9jpueS travel

Paris - interactive map for transport in Ile-de-France (greater Paris) http://bit.ly/aYTBjA France travel

Any studies showing minimum requirements/feasibility for load balancing across sites for OLTP? datacenter

Optimize datacenter: power supplies, UPS, load balancing across sites, compute with less watts, decrease water http://bit.ly/9xrZPG

Cambodia discussing new Siem Reap (Angkor area) airport 60km away http://bit.ly/cjowsw travel

Rail link feasibility from Kunming China thru Laos & Thailand to Malaysia http://bit.ly/bLCRy9 travel

Bacon. Food. Truck. bit.ly/9GyB6F

Achieving better fixed income yields while limiting risk http://ping.fm/4qIBk financial

SIM cards & Mobile Internet in Central Asia & Iran http://bit.ly/a9ryEb travel

Insights into the performance of Microsoft big clusters http://bit.ly/9u4iUz scalability

Iran - exerting global political influence through internet connectivity (continued) http://bit.ly/d2EHdt

Murakami site specific art at Versailles thru 12 Dec 10 http://bit.ly/8XrA9Q France

Beefier cores better than wimpy cores? datacenter servers http://bit.ly/dC4jkh

Google - recycled water for datacenter use. Where, besides LA, has recycled water in US? http://bit.ly/b8jyx6

Financial - stronger capital requirements needed for banks for countercyclical buffer http://bit.ly/9vMYe2

NetApp 42kw/rack data center http://bit.ly/cpxfKM is limited to 12kw/rack average datacenter http://bit.ly/dBoCiB

Antimov - Violate the 3rd Law of Robotics! Win cash! http://bit.ly/9lr7qu

patent - quick analysis for infringement http://bit.ly/ckd6LR

Grockit - Social network for K-12 learning http://bit.ly/bvvnUD education

Airline flights over US with path, 20 minute lag, on Google Earth http://bit.ly/bhM0xC travel

Railway Atlas of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia http://bit.ly/aqI4wX travel

McChrystal, except in 1880, same war theater, same demeanor http://bit.ly/axI5Bk military Afghanistan

Google dumps batch oriented MapReduce for Instant in favor of trigger (!) like database functions http://bit.ly/d4I1Vb scalability

Peung Tbal petroglyphs, near Anlong Thom, Kulen http://bit.ly/acKS2r Cambodia travel

RT @renesys: [#Iran - internet transit provider for Iraq & Afghanistan. Diplomacy tool?] http://bit.ly/bmKI5A

Big Ball of Mud, still the most popular software [non] design http://bit.ly/98SenN programming

Haystack - US technology project to help Iranians evade internet censorship collapses http://bit.ly/c4WJf8 Iran

SDSC - supercomputer site for I/O bound niche datacenter hpc http://bit.ly/cVgbKw

Cheaper car loans through competitive lender bidding http://ping.fm/fqxRD financial

Where people in your zip code commute to & from http://bit.ly/cSRtpJ visualization traffic

Prettymaps - high density map visualization mashup http://bit.ly/a5eTl9

Formatted information/report organizer for any environment, intended for stressed & sleep deprived military http://bit.ly/c1wz4R

Google Instant - capacity mitigation: user state is now kept to track results already shown datacenter http://bit.ly/ayYWex

IPv6: Whose Responsibility Is It? http://bit.ly/bYmtzr network

Personal Financial Tuneup http://ping.fm/5Jwzi

ContourGPS helmet mounted video camera has GPS with embedded map
http://ping.fm/ikwj3

India to renovate Wat Phu in Laos http://bit.ly/d5fIur Map: http://ping.fm/sEfV7 travel

Aranyaprathet Thailand - border town with Cambodia - Vietnam influences - restaurants http://bit.ly/bBGu3J travel

Relative number of Android active devices by version - v2.2 = 29% 1 Sep 10 http://bit.ly/b68JyB

Are Android phones in the US destined to be filled with carrier crapware? Oh, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! http://ping.fm/8qZXK

Would a Verizon iPhone be loaded with crapware? http://ping.fm/Mi3bo Ack!

Samrong Circular Earthwork prehistoric archaeological site destroyed for housing in Cambodia http://bit.ly/drAF5O (forgot link)

What happens when your web site is hosted at a cloud provider who hosts a site that goes viral? http://bit.ly/9oEgw8

Canada and Trans Pacific cable maps http://bit.ly/avr8YX network

Style guides and user interface (UI) guidelines http://bit.ly/9Ppcm0 design

Samrong Circular Earthwork prehistoric archaeological site destroyed for housing in Cambodia

Ta Prohm’s trees to remain a permanent fixture http://bit.ly/cRGQJM cambodia angkor travel

iPhone configuration utility updated; useful for small biz; restrict Game Center http://bit.ly/bRBqDr

NSF: Re-architecting the internet http://bit.ly/bs7HCF network

Quit screwing around and appoint Elizabeth Warren head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. financial http://bit.ly/c1YRd6

Robust paths in the Internet http://bit.ly/98XLum network architecture

Tracking firefly trails in the forest http://bit.ly/d8z3ZB cool photography

iPhone 4 with iOS 4.1 field test mode http://ping.fm/HGkF7

Scalability Patterns http://bit.ly/aSHT37 programming architecture

Laos to open Battle of Ban Dong (Lamson 719, 1971) museum http://bit.ly/aebqUD

Stir-fried morning glory with bean paste, garlic & chili - Riya's Kitchen http://bit.ly/cL4bQe Thailand recipe

Google Scribe - autocomplete for any web page, example: email, with toggle http://bit.ly/aWYNds

Role of Steve Jobs as a designer disputed, but interesting comments and, in the end, it doesn't matter http://bit.ly/catzFR

iPhone - add on 45x microscope for US$10 http://ping.fm/jQJ2P

Terminate SSL connections in hardware; Reduce server count http://bit.ly/chQWOL scalability

Public SEC form D disclosures of stealth mode companies http://ping.fm/zYRDq financial

Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning to Scale the Hard Way http://bit.ly/agKsNK scalability

eBay modular datacenter RFP http://bit.ly/9o1HBU

Understanding & managing business risk in China http://bit.ly/ciGnod

Mapping building interiors in 3D http://bit.ly/cbKIfH

FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes http://bit.ly/bTa0oK datacenter

Why wouldn’t IT departments build from commodity components instead of being locked into [a vendor system]? http://bit.ly/d7IQZ2 datacenter

Folding UK BS1363 AC power plug to be launched 2010 http://bit.ly/921EuL mobile

Track friend and foe on the tactical battlefield with iPhone app. (wifi needed) military http://bit.ly/b00Dce

Low cost unmanned aerial surveillance http://bit.ly/d1AtNi military EverybodyHasDrones

Poll: 21% of Americans think the lottery is the most practical way to accumulate enough money for retirement http://bit.ly/9iZA86 financial

Why ACID compliant relational databases are hard to scale http://bit.ly/aJprVV

"A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop" - review of movie remake by Zhang Yimou of Coen brothers' Blood Simple http://ping.fm/NRns5

10,000 Chinese troops in Pakistan? Denied by China http://ping.fm/8THtr

Economic concerns driving push for military naval power, including China http://bit.ly/btYFtY

Longer term CDs as an alternative to bonds financial http://ping.fm/R9DFE

Google Chrome says whether site access failures are affecting others http://ping.fm/h0rGp

Police shoot mountain lion in downtown Berkeley http://bit.ly/btlQSt

Portability of applications across cloud infrastructures - Red Hat http://bit.ly/cFDoer

Nine Design Principles - Enterprise Cloud oriented Datacenter http://bit.ly/b0ZeNu

Will new Dodd-Frank Title VII financial clearinghouses underprice systemic, correlated risk? http://bit.ly/a2TSqU

Japan food, including restaurant maps http://bit.ly/bmKUIu travel Tokyo Kyoto

iPhone Chinese to English translation using OCR (video demo) http://bit.ly/9kImJj

China - new emphasis by Western firms on protecting intellectual property http://bit.ly/c93Tq3 Duh technology IP

China closing gap on technology innovation: Glass http://bit.ly/aEUFRh

coincident indicator - Afghanistan prosecutor investigating high level corruption forced out http://bit.ly/djnTpR

Asteroid discoveries 1980-2010 visualized http://bit.ly/cQ8H4e space visualization

French Resistance Museum http://bit.ly/c5oesp France WW2

Speculations on Burma alleged nuclear weapons program http://bit.ly/cXCUze Myanmar

US waged war in Iraq, but China got the oil. oops http://bit.ly/brgbtx

Tourists except Singapore and Maldives need prior entry visa before arrival in Sri Lanka after 30 Sep 10 travel http://bit.ly/dcpzkT

Cambodia - new trains and track repair funded http://bit.ly/d4YrWk

Shanghai government inaction leads to destruction of historic houses http://bit.ly/9vgGbV China

Running facial recognition scans on the apsaras of Angkor Wat http://bit.ly/dmJIQ4 cambodia travel

Google - Pointers on how to find new "things to do" http://bit.ly/aITinU

Google chart tools http://bit.ly/bB3fLf visualization

Foursquare map visualization http://bit.ly/b4kAmI

Remove iPad for screening at OAK & save yourself some hassle, regardless of TSA guidance travel

Lebanon : capsule review by The New Yorker http://bit.ly/9Hf7HQ movies

The network of connections Google uses to identify relevant social search results for an individual http://bit.ly/cZjY3m

JetBlue actively hires former police & fire fighters, generally retirees, as flight attendants http://bit.ly/dyf86F travel

Stream music from iDisk to iPhone, iPad, iTouch http://bit.ly/cjus5v

Bill Gates: More investment is needed in optimizing disposal of human waste http://ping.fm/eXdgG technology

Search for the tomb of Genghis Khan - Map Explorer - Field Expedition: Mongolia, National Geographic http://bit.ly/cF8EZV

Introducing noise in financial markets to gain advantage? HighFrequency#Trading - The Atlantic http://bit.ly/bc72aI

Thai Airways, Tiger Airways Announce Low-Fare Airline http://bit.ly/bmihp1 travel asia

Humans & monkeys act similarly irrationally about money http://bit.ly/9Rc9Up financial

cloud privacy heat map - Forrester http://bit.ly/alZkYj

Compuware cloud performance visualization tool http://bit.ly/bFPNF

Shanghai Peace Hotel Reopens http://bit.ly/cSA8uB China travel

datacenter site selection, electric source (transmission/distribution); water source (recycled?) & discharge (!) http://bit.ly/aOoA3E

GPSFileDepot - Custom global maps, Ximage hosting, tutorials GPS http://bit.ly/d4xFab travel

Tibet map http://bit.ly/cVDnMn travel

Charts & graphs guidelines: explain encodings; label axes; include units; size 2D shapes by area; include sources http://bit.ly/9RPlL0

Cambodia - 117km National Road 68, from Kralanh to O'Smach, will be completed in 2 years http://bit.ly/4R04j3

Wired article on iPhone & AT&T (aka ATTFail ) "Service." How do non-US carriers handle iPhone data traffic? http://bit.ly/c2A57E

A community sourced entity graph of people, places and things http://bit.ly/dceLwh Google acquisition

Thailand travel Pre-paid data SIM cards http://bit.ly/b6bHGF

Thai Town Restaurants - FlyerTalk http://bit.ly/bDUHaT HongKong travel

Marais Tunisia microtrench fiberoptics http://bit.ly/dqZ5Rr networks infrastructure

Automated parking system http://bit.ly/9LT9GL technology

Open Spot - Android app people leaving parking spots share their spots with people searching for parking. http://bit.ly/bK4l28

Cloud Privacy issues -Nymity interview http://ping.fm/i4yEn

Cloud Security - Fully Homomorphic Encryption http://bit.ly/bEo6NM

Cloud Security - Host-Proof Hosting - Ajax Patterns http://bit.ly/cRJu0n

Old people like landline http://bit.ly/96fIpS WhenI'm64

iPad - can be charged by Lenovo AC/DC adapter with L10a tip through a Power Hub (splitter)

Emerging programming languages - optimize concurrency, maintainability http://ping.fm/KJvFm

Eat'N Tool - Spoon, Fork, Bottle Opener, Screwdriver/Pry Tip, Metric Wrenches http://bit.ly/9ChRga backpacking military

Stats on large scale data stores with Hadoop focus http://bit.ly/bcVGdY storage datacenter

datacenter standards - I saw a $270m site with 36" raised floor, 72F cold aisle; another big time site with slab & 68F (!) cold aisle

VoltDB database SQL ACID OLTP lockless sharded http://bit.ly/9mfSo2

Switch to an ETF From a Traditional Index Fund? http://bit.ly/cycwYu financial

Human networks casualty in McChrystal ouster http://bit.ly/b3n8Kd military Afghanistan

WSJ on travel in Armenia - focus on churches http://bit.ly/a6aJ3e

travel - use OAK T1 security instead of T2 to avoid huge, annoying security lines

Guangzhou China restaurant update - Stan Sesser WSJ http://bit.ly/9CXtYE travel

When to Shop and Buy Southwest Airline Tickets http://bit.ly/92YKaL travel

Pre-paid data SIM cards - FlyerTalk consolidated thread - http://bit.ly/9IHq3T travel

Facebook Scalability - platform overhaul tech changes; developer issues; Scribe; "reasonable reliability" http://ping.fm/AhqaQ

HTML5 visualization readiness - The most obvious hole is Internet Explorer, which supports practically nothing http://bit.ly/9G9Sia

Dengue Fever - Grooveshark - Listen to Free Music Online http://bit.ly/c30Vnb

London as a cultural island http://bit.ly/bb1lPa

Parasites in Marine Fishes - sushi http://bit.ly/cV9Rop

Long distance butterfly swimming http://bit.ly/aqJQhc

Hidden human nervous system anatomy in Michelangelo's work or Rorshach for neuroanatomists? http://bit.ly/cqdNwY

Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market: 140 person tourist limit http://bit.ly/aAZnY6 Japan travel

Funny flyertalk post about arrogant, jerk pax in airport "elite" lines http://bit.ly/dbj5fe travel

RT @MosheKaplan: The Spot Instances Pricing Paradox is Solved! http://bit.ly/bEeUjq <- AWS economics analysis cloud

eVetRecs: Request Copies of Veterans Military Personnel Records DD214 http://bit.ly/cCxSsU

Unlimited International data Plan for iPhone http://bit.ly/brEBWQ travel

Lessons Learned - Reddit 270M Page Views/Month http://bit.ly/9BXRHT scalability

Accommodation Near Suvarnabhumi Airport BKK - http://bit.ly/cBxnX1 travel thailand bangkok

Bangkok Restaurant Directory http://bit.ly/bBbA4P travel thailand

Security contractors blogs http://bit.ly/dgO5O0 military

Yelp France http://ping.fm/Jcz4N travel

K-factor & transformer heating. Telecomm K-13; mainframe K-20 http://bit.ly/cW20x2 datacenter

Container datacenter Short pro/con analysis http://bit.ly/bF60Xh

Power source (coal, hydro) & fiber path issues for China datacenter siting. Who knows where the fiber is? http://bit.ly/9Nziiy

Looking at material role, if any, of carbon sequestration in datacenter siting. Consider fuel cell case & LEED (barf) credits

Should a datacenter be sited near natural gas supply for lower cost and carbon footprint? http://bit.ly/cUc3ME

Voldemort architecture & deployment - distributed storage - video + slides http://bit.ly/aHhD5p

WiGig, next gen Wifi; short range, up to 7 Gb/sec; deploy in 2 years; beamforming for distances > 10m http://bit.ly/aChRXM

Enterprise Java dead or alive? Long discussion in comments. http://bit.ly/9mQVpf programming

Sify architecture - 3900 Requests/sec; no databases - solr http://bit.ly/aUZK6m scalability

Global Server Load Balancing with EC2 http://bit.ly/beAKJ8 cloud

AF Chief says no new light attack plane for COIN. (Last A10 delivered 1984.) http://bit.ly/cfnRic military

How to asset store on Amazon S3 http://bit.ly/bSl0P2 aws

Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources http://bit.ly/aurXjt cloud

NoSQL in the Enterprise - relaxed & eventual consistency http://bit.ly/bSlvJ0 programming

Laos potentially UXO free in 10 years http://bit.ly/aHDb7e travel

China to fund Laos railway network. China - Vientiane - Thakhek to Lao-Vietnamese border http://bit.ly/dBgkLf travel

Silk Road Timelapse: Two Months Across Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunan, and China video travel http://bit.ly/b3XRDW

RT @flowingdata: Air traffic reboot in northern Europe visualization http://ping.fm/y1qiO

SciDB - Science Oriented DBMS at 100 Petabytes http://bit.ly/aplxAs storage database

2010 Fault Activity Map of California http://bit.ly/aF0nIH seismic datacenter

916.538.3466 is the Google Voice access number used as a relay by, at least, the mobile app. Add to frequent called list. 9165383466

Google Dapper - Tracing large scale distributed infrastructure http://bit.ly/dthwMl programming

Survey of global data & voice submarine cable infrastructure http://bit.ly/9fSxlO

Ok, what used to be a plain "signature guarantee" is now a "Medallion signature guarantee." http://bit.ly/98n2lr financial

Proposed US financial resolution authority is domestic and can't work cross border, so vulnerable to arbitrage http://bit.ly/9G7yTs

US fiber longhaul network maps http://bit.ly/94rutr

Drug resistant malaria centered around Pailin, 5% of Cambodia http://bit.ly/b4Kb0k travel

Cybernuke potential analysis - BGP subversion; L1 physical damage; Exploit router vendor concentration http://bit.ly/an3vDv network

Google Maps doesn't show in the "Here's What's Blocked in China By Date" matrix http://bit.ly/cPypjq googlecn

Free Lonely Planet iPhone guides for 13 European cities through 22 Apr http://ping.fm/f1k9S

iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad support WPA2 Enterprise http://bit.ly/9TmqPL pg 11 security

Enable advanced Google Docs functions: Settings>Documents Settings>Editing>New Version of Google Documents http://bit.ly/94IXK

China investing in Africa for food & resource security. Chances of improved governance are slim http://bit.ly/bTacAo

Was John Paulson criminally liable for suggesting toxic CDOs for Goldman to package so he could short them? http://bit.ly/aab38W financial

Frenchie (#Paris restaurant) & Le Fooding - New Yorker 5 Apr 10 http://bit.ly/bbWUV9

Traffic flow visualization http://bit.ly/cID2Z2

Google Cloud Print http://bit.ly/cV4isA <-What's the RFC? Oh.

Excavations at Cambodia Koh Ker site http://bit.ly/9oEds7 travel

RT @bivcons Lessons Learned and Advice for Startups [Twine from creation to sale] http://bit.ly/9tfTn5

Presenters in datacenter cooling seminar were perplexed about handling NEBS "spec" top temp 55°C when equip operating top is 40°C

Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Toolbox http://bit.ly/daQi1a datacenter

RT @datacenter: ASHRAE to [big datacenter operators: don't spec cooling tech, adopt overall efficiency standard] http://bit.ly/dc3CHO

JetBlue & WestJet switch reservations systems to Sabre. Aftermath with analysis http://bit.ly/btN26t travel

Two types of warfare: asymmetric and stupid http://bit.ly/cRhTJX military

GDocs spreadsheet showing for 3-35 kw/rack: watts/ft², amps for 120/208vAC & -48vDC datacenter http://bit.ly/aN4fZ7

GDocs spreadsheet showing for 3-35 kw/rack: watts/ft², amps for 120/208vAC & -48vDC datacenter

India Regional Foods in New Delhi at regional government cafeterias http://ping.fm/6Szle travel

Draka SLIM bend-insensitive OM3/4 multimode fiber; small form factor; multi-fiber dense push-on MPO http://bit.ly/aflBjy datacenter

Errors in Database Systems, Eventual Consistency, and the CAP Theorem http://bit.ly/biESTU datacenter

Google search story video creator - link up to 7 queries, song optional http://ping.fm/qxiII

Interesting series on How to Make Your Stuff In China http://bit.ly/9r1NvP outsourcing

Financial Engineering: Not enough toxic CDOs to short. Solution: provide equity to make more. Then short. http://bit.ly/aBin0W

Networking-Last Bastion of Mainframe [style] Computing 12/09 http://bit.ly/aqjZSS <-hardware,software single source, vertically integrated

Is cassandra ConsistencyLevel.One appropriate for transaction applications? http://bit.ly/8XEOeN cloud

Scenarios for dealing with Too Big Too Fail, but vision & will lacking http://bit.ly/aQh361 financial

Need credible reliability studies of natural gas vs diesel datacenter generators after earthquake. Fuel supply, startup, continuing ops

Citable public documents at paragraph level with permalinks to reduce political spin http://ping.fm/FsSf9

Google integrates QR codes into its URL shortener http://ping.fm/1vVr5

Heat wheel for datacenter cooling (via @datacenter, 11/14/2008) http://bit.ly/cBOPXA <-proposed for recent, orthogonal project

Revised TIA-942 to recommend LC & MPO for MM fiber at EO & ENI; LC & MPO for SM at EO; Angled LC for SM at ENI http://bit.ly/9Q3YVn

AC whitepaper suggests cold aisle temp 80ºF/26ºC to minimize (server + hvac) power use http://bit.ly/cTU3sO datacenter hvac

Inter cloud - scaling, coordination, transactions? http://bit.ly/bUl9ww

Thailand & Laos motorcycle maps http://bit.ly/bTJTda travel

Interoute fiber to Istanbul | Telecom Ramblings http://bit.ly/aINBKU <-minimum 3 ducts, 48 pairs infrastructure dark fiber

Consistency in distributed systems cloud http://bit.ly/c2YlMg <-search on "transaction"

Print From Your BlackBerry or iPhone - Free app http://ping.fm/APy4R

Photo blog - eastern Tibet in the 1920s, then & now. China travel http://bit.ly/dyhpag

Contrarian Chinese view about Google China | ChinaGeeks googlecn http://bit.ly/blUeuT

RT @NiuB: Letter From Vietnam : Reading Tim O’Brien in Hanoi - http://ping.fm/iPvc5 <-includes summary of Vietnamese fiction about the war

Video: Shanghai girl drifts Caddy into parking space http://bit.ly/c7qVGE

Southwest upgrading cockpit tech 4/6 to use RNP, satellite guided, precision approaches http://bit.ly/cmKImH travel

"Hobbyist" computer water cooling datacenter http://bit.ly/creH3G

Fundamental flaws in US counterinsurgency doctrine? http://bit.ly/c0Ae3b military Afghanistan

Fiber cable online installation training - Cabling Installation & Maintenance http://bit.ly/ciyhIv network

database transaction handling - discussion in comments on NoSQL & RDBMS http://bit.ly/9ASB2G architecture

Spanner - Google next storage and computation infrastructure - move close to users http://bit.ly/cDnWsJ datacenter

RT @Fiberism: Google’s Unity [operational] http://bit.ly/9DgskC <-transpac 10Mm fiber, adds 5 pair. 960Gb/sec/pair

8 years on, Eastern Afghanistan a No Go area for NATO Forces http://bit.ly/a7cewO military oops

85% of research computing can be done using cloud http://bit.ly/aRKphL <-resistance from HPC users

US has twice aircraft carriers of rest of world combined. Graphic showing relative flight deck capacity. http://bit.ly/clLxlk military

United/UA any Premier ok to enroll in HKG Frequent Visitor's e-Channel http://bit.ly/bs1uMl travel

Is the quantity of patents a metric of innovation? http://ping.fm/WNcqS

Caching 404s [hit by spiders] Saved The Onion 66% on Server Time http://bit.ly/cqMrYI scalability

HDMI 1.3a Category 2 cables color coded http://bit.ly/djmhwO shop

Marine platoons in distributed operations in Afghanistan have as much communications gear as a battalion http://bit.ly/bN2Ufd military

New Art and Digital Media from Iran - 3/30-4/10, 2010 - Berkeley http://bit.ly/alN3Tr

Is optimal DNS TTL 1/2 expected Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)? [Wikipedia outage] http://bit.ly/8YfdRz

White House & Congress can’t seem to contemplate making biggest banks smaller or even limiting their size http://bit.ly/dDfLRR financial

New bathymetric data along the Southern California Coast pushed to Google Earth & Maps http://bit.ly/aS00mh scuba

Some airline frequent flyers eligible for Hong Kong eChannel immigration clearance http://bit.ly/bkHbqs travel

Heavy dust in the air anywhere near the river from construction in downtown Vientiane Laos http://bit.ly/aFzRD4 travel

Evan Osnos: Life Without Google - The New Yorker "like an addled Goliath" http://bit.ly/almCHK China googlecn

Visualization: age, debt, credit score by email provider http://bit.ly/bUeCn0 SuspectButInteresting

Google will provide censored search results to China contractual partners, but won't renew http://bit.ly/cy1B2A

Angkor Temples Mapped

For fans of the more obscure Angkor era temples, a lot are mapped starting around here, http://bit.ly/9nsBpv , with a lot of panning the map around.

The locations are generally taken from Ancient Angkor by Freeman and Jacques, Asia Books, Bangkok 1999.   You more or less have to know the names to find them with search.  The comprehensive on line listings of the names with geo-locations seems to have disappeared
http://www.angkorguide.de/English-Dateien/monuments.htm
but here is a site with a lot of photos with locations. http://www.panoramio.com/user/1549852/tags/Cambodia

Cloud - Methodology for cost of a database operation. Use that cost as feedback into development http://bit.ly/80oQue

Like Big O algorithm complexity, need Big $ metric to judge an algorithm by cost against a particular cloud profile http://bit.ly/4ob5Km

DOCOMO MECARD contact information compacts the verbose vCard http://bit.ly/7YmsdV

zxing - Guide to standard encoding of information in barcodes - QR businesscards MEBKM http://bit.ly/5Kukv9

Bangkok Thailand restaurants & hotels with landmarks (from Flyertalk) http://ping.fm/3XzfO travel

Bangkok to Vientiane Laos overland (Jan, 2010) http://bit.ly/87Ib6F travel Thailand

Disaster Supplies: Headlamp - Petzl E49PC TacTikka Plus - Amazon http://bit.ly/5pbU97

Google Android SmartHome media VoIP - tie in with SmartGrid ? http://bit.ly/7vNwtT

Laos Bus/songthaew/boat schedules/details including Thailand - Lao international http://bit.ly/4xBX0G travel

Bangkok transit app with Chao Phraya Express Boat and tourist bus info iphone travel Thailand http://bit.ly/6kk31a

Vientiane Laos - Pakxe - Phnom Penh Cambodia bus schedule http://bit.ly/8aLeST

Morningstar Cash Flow Cushion indicator - Can cash cover company debt? http://bit.ly/8WX3wf

Sony digital camera with GPS: Cyber-shot HX5V US$350 http://bit.ly/8J94ri travel

Datacenter assume 19 inch rack footprint is 28 to 30 square feet http://bit.ly/5Ru7yj

datacenter site selection - ranking against benchmarks http://bit.ly/5fnbn0

Overhead imagery in Cambodia Laos Vietnam tri-border area decent. Logging? Micro-hydro? http://bit.ly/7jUI1P

Datacenter design - area/room cooling possible for HPC in 2012+? slide 16 Nicolas Dubé - Sun http://bit.ly/8zpo9h

Thailand Weather - Provinces and major cities http://bit.ly/5AogZw

Create a new universal installation ISO for Windows 7. Remove ei.cfg file. http://bit.ly/5PPco windows7

Find the fastest DNS server for you to configure & use http://bit.ly/4B0VA0 network tools