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