Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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

Monday, December 27, 2010

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

Sunday, December 26, 2010

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

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Best Western opens 44 room hotel in Vientiane Laos travel

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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

Monday, December 20, 2010

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

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010

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

Friday, December 17, 2010

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?

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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

Friday, December 10, 2010

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

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

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

Sunday, December 05, 2010

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!

Friday, December 03, 2010

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

Thursday, December 02, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

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

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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.

Friday, November 19, 2010

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

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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

Monday, November 15, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sunday, November 07, 2010

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

Friday, November 05, 2010

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

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Monday, November 01, 2010

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

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

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

Thursday, October 28, 2010

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

Monday, October 25, 2010

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

Saturday, October 23, 2010

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

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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 







Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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

Monday, October 18, 2010

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

Sunday, October 17, 2010

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

Friday, October 15, 2010

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

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Friday, October 08, 2010

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

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Monday, October 04, 2010

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

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Friday, October 01, 2010

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

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Monday, September 27, 2010

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

Sunday, September 26, 2010

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

Saturday, September 25, 2010

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

Friday, September 24, 2010

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

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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

Monday, September 20, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010

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

Friday, September 17, 2010

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

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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

Sunday, September 12, 2010

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!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

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

Friday, September 10, 2010

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

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Monday, September 06, 2010

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

Sunday, September 05, 2010

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

Friday, September 03, 2010

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

Thursday, September 02, 2010

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

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

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

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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

Monday, August 30, 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

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

Friday, August 27, 2010

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

Monday, August 09, 2010

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

Sunday, August 08, 2010

Saturday, August 07, 2010

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

Friday, August 06, 2010

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

Thursday, August 05, 2010

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

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

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

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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

Friday, July 16, 2010

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

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

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

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

Sunday, July 04, 2010

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

Friday, July 02, 2010

Thursday, July 01, 2010

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

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

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

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

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

Monday, June 07, 2010

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

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

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

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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

Sunday, May 23, 2010

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

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010

Sunday, May 16, 2010

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

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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

Monday, May 10, 2010

Saturday, May 01, 2010

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

Friday, April 30, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Monday, April 26, 2010

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

Sunday, April 25, 2010

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

Friday, April 23, 2010

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

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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

Monday, April 19, 2010

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

Sunday, April 18, 2010

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

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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

Monday, April 12, 2010

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

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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

Saturday, April 10, 2010

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

Friday, April 09, 2010

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

Thursday, April 08, 2010

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

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

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

Sunday, April 04, 2010

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

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Friday, April 02, 2010

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

Thursday, April 01, 2010

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

Sunday, March 28, 2010

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

Saturday, March 27, 2010

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

Friday, March 26, 2010

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

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

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

Monday, January 25, 2010

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

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

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

Friday, January 08, 2010

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Monday, January 04, 2010

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

Saturday, January 02, 2010

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

Friday, January 01, 2010

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