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