Google Apps includes a 99.9% SLA for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Talk http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/10/slas-available-for-gmail-google.html

Google Calendar now finds next available time for multiple person/conference room scheduling http://ping.fm/2n3d3

HP Mini 1000 netbook laptop attractive except for proprietary USB flash; see also Lenovo S10

Google Apps adds experimental "Labs" functions http://ping.fm/0QlSP

Microsoft SensorMap: datacenter facility temperature, seismic data? http://ping.fm/ITmhw

How will Darkstrand - National LambdaRail announcement affect datacenter placement?

National LambaRail (NLR) partially commercialized http://ping.fm/Djn9E

GMail Labs navbar drag and drop function useful with new GMail lab gadgets

Blu-ray being killed by upsampling DVD players? http://ping.fm/C4gER

New Gmail lab gadgets: Calendar and Docs http://ping.fm/kIkjf

Bellsouth Engineering Standards for CO Equipment NEBS http://ping.fm/vviFD

CPUC, ILECs, CLECs, and CENIC informal meeting on using Caltrans right of way for dark fiber

Back to looking at NEBS standards for co-location space FAQ at http://ping.fm/I0DEi

meebo not working for me with Firefox 3, but ok with IE. No recent changes I can think of.

Nietzsche used a typewriter http://ping.fm/lXg8W

Microsoft Azure cloud services operating system http://ping.fm/xrcfW

Google Earth now available for iPhone http://ping.fm/GxUY6

Lexar Media 8GB High Speed Mini Flash Drive FireFly Jump Drive USB 2.0 - JDFF8GB-431 $15 incl shipping http://ping.fm/yuV1H

DNKT8MY IBM ticket on 90W AC/DC slim adapter http://ping.fm/EY4ZI

Potential Next Big Web Use Refinement: Ubiquity http://ping.fm/u9lmc

Info on availability of Twitter firehose, comprehensive feed http://ping.fm/DedhP

Vision for research networks in Europe http://ping.fm/KggXm

123people people search now in US http://ping.fm/u0CuQ

Amazon EC2 new 99.95% annual SLA (4h23m downtime/yr) http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/

Mission Street Food in San Francisco; Every Thursday at 21st and Mission http://ping.fm/zLH3T

Shut down idle computers on your network automatically http://ping.fm/vAZTh

Dual-fiber pair, 1.28-Tbit/sec DWDM project will connect Nigeria, Ghana, and Portugal. Later it will extend to Angola and South Africa http://ping.fm/I2rSA

Northern Tier Network Consortium (NTNC) selected Infinera for optical network linking nine states from Washington to Illinois http://ping.fm/hrE47

Yapta forecast cost of $219 for a flight that I then ticketed for $129. After ticketing, the forecast still shows $219.

Need to add intelligence to electrical grid http://ping.fm/DgNnL

ETF or Mutual Fund: How to Decide? http://ping.fm/MWz4q

Investors Are Selling Mutual Funds at Record Speed (but Morningstar say this is probably bad tactics) http://ping.fm/Q5Fy9

Buffalo’s LinkStation Mini 1TB palm size fanless network attached storage RAID 0/1 RJ45/USB http://ping.fm/IC8Fs

Motorola combines WIPS security with WLAN access points http://ping.fm/Knvmp

Dark fiber construction in California in areas controlled by Caltrans Encroachment Permit manual especially sec 600 http://ping.fm/9hgMI

9 "must have" OpenOffice extensions http://ping.fm/xVBAC

GMail now has canned response feature. Enable using Gmail Labs

NPR: Best Foreign Books You've Never Heard Of http://ping.fm/zx8eI

How to protect your trademark globally, including China http://ping.fm/v4Fb5

How assisted GPS works http://ping.fm/NElT4

Plan to join LAN, SAN and high-performance computing applications into one datacenter network fabric http://ping.fm/mZGsM

Google Gears can now update FireEagle with location info, but it's not that accurate (one sample so far)

Perspective on recently publicized wireless WPA attack http://ping.fm/E9XG7

fall in U.S. gasoline prices last week means Chinese motorists now pay more for gas than US http://ping.fm/diuNZ

Rong Klua Market trade at Aranyaprathet Thailand resumed Friday after 2 day suspension following Preah Vihear skirmish

China is set to launch an experiment in securities shorting and margin trading http://ping.fm/sBIuA

New Thailand frequent traveler card to be issued http://ping.fm/AwGCH

Tweetdeck black icon in taskbar very difficult to see on gray-black background

Video visualization of global air traffic http://ping.fm/IPBfF

Shanghai-Beijing train info http://ping.fm/OkrMv

Openoffice 3.0 Vista 64 install inhibited by many poorly identified running background processes

Need to find a better way of specifying the billing period for professional services in Zoho Invoice

IBM's business analyst tools and best practices. Mostly keyed to IBM products. http://ping.fm/lP8f4

IBM's emerging tech has a twitter feed alphaworks

Vuze user signup window can't be resized to expose confirmation button. Need to tab to expose all fields. UI error.

Vuze (was Azureus) bittorrent client now available in version 4.0 http://www.vuze.com/app

Emerging best day to day uses of twitter: daily pizza update from cheeseboard; tracking packages from trackthis

Openoffice distro servers crash, but 3.0 easily available using bittorrent http://ping.fm/GAI1t

Costa Rica Sea Turtle Project

Some links about opportunities for working with sea turtles in Costa Rica.

Volunteer Adventures
Volunteer Abroad 
Ecology Project International

OpenOffice 3.0.0 general release in P2P Torrent distro http://ping.fm/e5yEj

Financially "wounded" but useful services like meebo and twitter http://ping.fm/vsx6m

LHR Heathrow door to door transport http://ping.fm/zYyl1

OpenStreetMap data can be used in Garmin GPS, replacing the need for purchased map data www.openstreetmap.org

Credit cards: Risky borrowers with low credit scores account for roughly 30% of outstanding credit-card debt, compared with 11% of mortgage debt http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_42/b4104024799703.htm

Guide to Google Analytics from ex Urchin (Google Analytics staffer) http://ping.fm/i6xlN

Blackberry Bold quality issues delay or suspend deployment http://ping.fm/q28TP

wondering about practical risk that wifi WPA2 is not secure. Coverage of Global Security Systems report at http://ping.fm/KLLQL

Analysis of what Google Gears offers http://ping.fm/AVo6M

AlertThingy alerts for twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr http://ping.fm/DzYrN

wondering if twitter search is reliable for trending topics http://ping.fm/a7yUr

IBM's virtual Forbidden City (Palace Museum), Beijing, China http://ping.fm/YIlsG

Google releases additional IMAP controls for GMail http://ping.fm/psQKD

IBM's business collaboration web tool http://ping.fm/K3MGj

Twitter directory by profession / job category + tools http://justtweetit.com/

A group of skydivers has completed the first parachute jump over the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. http://ping.fm/KB4uW

received Google Docs server error, "retry later." Is it a production service or not?

AIG "junket" seems actually to be an incentive for independent agents who sell AIG products http://ping.fm/tWD3k

Next level of Google Alert type function with http://www.yotify.com/ ?

Need a (free) way to transcribe podcasts. More bandwidth in reading.

Podcast:
Extreme Transaction Processing, Low Latency and Performance http://ping.fm/6EDs1

Google Maps now includes the Great Barrier Reef http://ping.fm/s7gbp

Installed OpenProj 1.4, desktop replacement of Microsoft Project http://ping.fm/5bd7G

Gmail search will find 000439743, but not 439743. Huh?

finding that iPhone needed a power on reset to get wi-fi to display network info such as IP address, router, etc.

Park and play music (mp3 only currently) in the cloud http://ping.fm/xWwGe

Restaurant meets video game http://ping.fm/RVfMB