SnapTell #iPhone app: Shazam like tagging of books, CDs, DVDs using camera; get back reviews, prices; uses machine image recognition

tn3270 #mainframe terminal emulation apps, free and pay, available for #iPhone (other emulation apps, too) http://ping.fm/d6UU8

Telcordia publishes new GR-3108 Generic Requirements for Network Equipment in the Outside Plant http://ping.fm/C2IR4

#Travel - Hertz Connect, car on demand for NYC, #London, #Paris http://ping.fm/38OxA

Government labs, universities, and financial traders major 40G / 100G markets with video <50% of demand http://lw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=13&ARTICLE_ID=347978&dcmp=LWDENL

Account of walking between #Kathmandu #Nepal & #Tibet http://ping.fm/KDr1c

Wikipedia list of common misconceptions http://ping.fm/JX11Z

GaianDB: dynamic distributed federated database copes with failures or network topology changes. store locally, query anywhere http://ping.fm/fUU7P

Are legacy admin apps (think payroll) and #ERP compatible with mapreduce? Simplifies #datacenter provisioning. Converge admin and "other"

What's value of enterprise #storage in a #hadoop world where servers & storage are expected to fail? http://ping.fm/8oVN6

Google's Browser Security Handbook http://ping.fm/nMPqC

Sri Lanka's budget airline, Mihin Lanka is to resume flights from December 21 http://poprl.com/7vx

Shanghai lady, after arguing about being towed, drives off in her car with tow truck attached http://ping.fm/f3DRH

Understanding HP Lab’s #Twitter Research http://ping.fm/umqCh

Distributed computing manipulating terabytes of data with hardware/storage expected to fail using Linux & Hadoop http://ping.fm/8oVN6

Optical transport equipment market forecast to decline nearly 10% in 2009 http://lw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=13&ARTICLE_ID=347554&C=NNEWS&dcmp=rss

Is airline industry in #China in financial distress? http://ping.fm/SdzSU

Enterprise storage and twitter http://ping.fm/roH1D

40G / 100G networks to mix Ethernet, Infiniband, and SONET http://ping.fm/sbx3u

"If you only read on thing on #China this fall" http://ping.fm/V19BS

#China creative abilities and innovation as seen by Elliot Ng http://ping.fm/ST1Yk

Companies emerging to advise against unsafe goods procurement from #China http://ping.fm/VhVLc

One step to resolving the Preah Vihear dispute would be a public, transparent survey of the demarcation between #Cambodia and #Thailand

There may be value in differentiating twitter #isdown tweets between consumer rants and more "enterprise level" outage reports

Estimate of costs of #hydrogen #infrastructure in US http://ping.fm/YEMzO

#Asia #travel Online express bus booking for #Singapore - #Malaysia but I generally just show up and get a seat http://ping.fm/ebGaG

#Vietnam To Regulate Blogging http://ping.fm/hHLZb

Best Nextag/Pricegrabber price with least exposure to hassle for #Nikon #D90, 18-200 lens, 12-24 lens, and SB-400 flash was #Amazon!

#China 20m migrants, typically from west to eastern, coastal cities out of work from 1/08 to 6/08 http://ping.fm/0jB4W

Some discussion about FTTH Fiber to the Home http://ping.fm/acsTs

#China possible major loser as a result of crisis, even with large econ growth and foreign reserves? http://ping.fm/93RL5

#cloud computing versus #co-location http://ping.fm/kVd14

#datacenter #infrastructure Power Usage Effectiveness is generally 2.5 or 2 units in for 1 unit to servers/storage. Could be 1.6. http://ping.fm/b66CO

#datacenter #infrastructure Comparative electrical power cost in USA by state http://ping.fm/GSnoF

anxious about a #CPUC Notice to Proceed (NTP) for a major, multi-jurisdiction Northern California fiber infrastructure network project

wish list: 1) #iPhone with easy swap SIM; 2) affordable pre-paid data plans for outside USA. Local numbers ok.

need to define California strategic corridors for #broadband deployment. Follow CalTrans? Which inter-city fiber providers besides #CalREN?

#datacenter What's the minimum outage that should be reflected in a SLA? @datacenter reports that Google says >10 minutes!

#datacenter very difficult to get vendor criteria for seismic, power, environmental, security, safety, etc. across all our 20 main sites

found out there's a two step process to using #Firefox #Geode geo locating add on with #FireEagle. 1)Pinpoint location; 2) update FireEagle

trying out #Firefox #Geode geolocating add-on at work site. Not sure of the privacy implications for this stuff

why would I want to use IBM's #Lotus #Bluehouse todo when #Jott is better integrated with #GCal, #twitter, and the rest of today's tools?

With $1 of stimulus to spend on broadband *or* electric grid infrastructure, what % to each? Grid needs likely poorly understood.

thinking how much of a standardized installation process with customer and vendor involvement should go through the ticket/tracking system

#Datatcenter seismic criteria: Bldg type, construction type, soil profile, seismic coef (Cv/Ca), seismic source, seismic importance, zone

Need an industry standard measure of how a #datacenter meets seismic standards. Code compliance in year built/remodeled?

How important is electrostatic dissipation on a #datacenter floor?

Free tier for Amazon Simple DB http://ping.fm/fM8n7

#Google #Maps disallowed an update because I was supposed to have made too many edits lately. Except this is 1st in days.

If #Google Notebook is killed, is #Evernote the best alternative? Need to export a *lot* of GNotebook content somehow. http://ping.fm/Diufg

NorCal #Datacenter Pulse meeting 17-18 Feb 08 http://ping.fm/E6fLo

Irritating that the #Java update 6.11 install package includes the dumb #Yahoo Toolbar as a default, checked option.

#Broadband coalition call for national (USA) broadband strategy http://ping.fm/xcJAD

Ping.fm AOL IM interface is down, so need to post through web [retro]

#Hertz at #LGB gives out #Priceline cars that run poorly, have manual windows/locks with s-l-o-w service

Got it! I'll go ahead and post that for you. Don't forget to vote for us in Mashable's 2008 Open Web Awards! You can vote once per day! - http://ping.fm/78pwX

Got it! I'll go ahead and post that for you. Don't forget to vote for us in Mashable's 2008 Open Web Awards! You can vote once per day! - http://ping.fm/78pwX

Got it! I'll go ahead and post that for you. Don't forget to vote for us in Mashable's 2008 Open Web Awards! You can vote once per day! - http://ping.fm/78pwX

#Hertz at #LGB gives out #Priceline cars that run poorly, have manual windows/locks with s-l-o-w service

Berkeley High meeting on academic change recommendations questions at http://ping.fm/9guhf

Micropayments used extensively in China; WSJ video http://ping.fm/HV3y6

Twitpay: Twitter based micropayments with Paypal link

50+ iPhone App Store Apps for Free -possibly temporary http://ping.fm/2xY7k

New iPod Touch's ARM processor runs at 532MHz, while iPhone 3G runs at 412MHz. Better gaming performance

Sync Google Calendar with iCal or Sunbird using CalDAV http://ping.fm/ZzoLN

Google Maps UI revised with Streetview enhancements http://ping.fm/3JN8o

Lenovo is adding security to its ThinkPad notebooks that will allow a user to disable a laptop by sending a text message

using twitter at high volume http://ping.fm/CCK7T

convert pdf to Microsoft Word http://ping.fm/oLJDn

search tags on twitter http://tweetag.com/

Google Calendar now does time zone auto-detection to help you view your calendar in the right local time zone when you're traveling.

It took Google six hours and two minutes to sort 1PB (10 trillion 100-byte records) on 4,000 computers http://ping.fm/HXvg0

the European Commission launched an important online project called Europeana (down until December) http://ping.fm/2H9ou

In Google Maps, you can simply enter the 3-letter airport code to find it on the map.

in the 2.2 version of Google Maps for iPhone, you can email information about a location to your friends

Lotus Bluehouse: enough added value for colleagues to sustain use?

wondering if IBM's Lotus Bluehouse works ok with Firefox. Works with IE, but a blank screen with Firefox after login.

thinking I need an easier way to dial long con call number with passcodes on iPhone while driving. Probably a Contacts feature

Google GMail themes are a cool feature! Use settings to configure.

Meebo connect problems with AIM

Mzima networks - optical transport http://ping.fm/lB0Mj

Managers FAQ for engineers http://ping.fm/6fNv9

Princeline now sends an email with much more informative receipt information than the previous notice of a response to a bid

AlwaysVPN, a free virtual private networking service, gets around U.S.-only service restrictions http://alwaysvpn.com/

possible fatal problem for ETF as substitute for index funds is commission when adding $$, except for reinvestment

Google Reader now offers automatic translation of feeds http://ping.fm/7RaZj

Cambodia-Vietnam agreement brings Trans-Asian railway closer http://ping.fm/yhNjy

troll under a bridge spotted in Google StreetView http://ping.fm/al7Tv

Reservations at El Bulli http://ping.fm/RksM0

China's new "theme" towns http://ping.fm/sbg98

seeing a large number of phishing emails from China posing as mail fro Kellen Creative and Microsoft

Bokor Cambodia

Interesting article on an apparently recent trip to Bokor. The article mentions the road is currently closed.

Bokor figures prominently in the 2002 movie City of Ghosts. I see that Google Earth/Maps now has high resolution imagery of the immediate area. 

11 Great Tools for Making VoIP Calls on the iPhone http://ping.fm/ODr9p

Private Cloud Storage: Facts You Need to Know http://ping.fm/5lHzs

New Yorker digital edition doesn't display on Firefox 3. Ok with IE.

Trans-Eurasia Information Network 3 funded http://ping.fm/J58W0

new urban area covering 3,000 ha is expected to be created near Luang Prabang, Laos http://ping.fm/qpnum

Control alternative minimum tax (AMT) exposure http://ping.fm/bK9su

Berkeley College Prep Counselors and Associated Information

Here's some summary information and extracts about college preparation counselors local to Berkeley (California).

From Berkeley "Parents of Teens" newsletter, 31 Oct 08

College prep counselor needed for high school junior
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I can highly recommend Diane Ruyffelaere. I've been working with her for
several years on the BHS College Application Handbook and she really knows
both what the colleges are looking for in students (and on applications), and
how to help students define what they are looking for in choosing a college.
She can work with your daughter on finding several colleges that are good fits
for her, on preparing for the SAT and/or ACT tests, and/or on getting that
college  essay written--before the start of Senior year! She knows her stuff
and is super friendly and helpful. She's working with my son right now, and
it's making the whole process of just finding a college a lot less stressful now
than it was looking a few months ago. She can be reached at druyffelaere@lmi.net

Good luck!
Nancy

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Ellen Lerner is great-- Intelligent, experienced, kind,
and resourceful.  She is on the North Oakland/Berkeley
border, and her phone number is 510-652-7222.
--Stephanie, parent of BHS senior

 Not Berkeley specific
College Discussion at College Confidential,...discussion forum for college admissions, financial aid, SAT prep

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