February 2009

Paradise Lost

February 27, 2009

Back in November, an old friend from my Woodstock School days invited us (and several other people) to join him for Thanksgiving on his gorgeous property on Gouverneur Bay, St. Barthelemy. We’d visited once before for his 2001 New Year’s bash, but didn’t get to stay at his place then, and in any case he [...]

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At the Chocolate Shop

February 25, 2009

In San Francisco. It’s little things like this that remind me why I love this country.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-02-22: CO, New Mexico

February 22, 2009

^ The Raging Grannies open for John McCutcheon in Las Vegas, NM About to see John McCutcheon in concert in the other las vegas (nm). Hmm, banjo on the stage. I love banjo # @timbray shippers predate the Internet; been a part of fan culture for a while. See kirk/Spock fandom # @jimgris not the [...]

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QFS Shared File Services for Scale and Cache Coherency

February 22, 2009

A conversation between Dean Roerich, QFS File System Engineer and Margaret Hamburger. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Blogging Tips

February 20, 2009

I long ago posted a bunch of tips and how-tos for bloggers to Sun’s blogs wiki, including: Tell Your Readers Who You Are Some Links Good, More Links Better Let Roller Do the Formatting Refreshing Old Blog Posts Use Your Signature to Increase Links and Traffic Spell It Right Build Blog Traffic by Serving Your [...]

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How QFS Wins the Battle Against Global Warming

February 20, 2009

Tom Albers, QFS File System Engineer and all-around good Minnesotan filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan 

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An Italian Song for Valentine’s Day: Per Dirti T’Amo

February 20, 2009

Pierangelo Bertoli: To Say “I Love You” Avrei voluto dedicarti una canzone    I would have liked to dedicate a song to you con le parole della televisione    with the words of the television tutti quei fiori e quei discorsi complicati    all those flowers and complicated discourses che al cine fanno nei locali raffinati.    which in [...]

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Seth Godin at TED: Tribe and Community

February 18, 2009

A very cool perk of working for Sun recently was that we had live streams of TED into the three major US campuses. It has long been a dream of mine to attend TED, though for the moment it’s well out of my price range. I couldn’t break free of meetings to watch during the [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-02-15: Colorado

February 15, 2009

@rosso and she left Colin Firth for Ralph Fiennes. Tough choice. [The English Patient] in reply to rosso # this week had a conversation with a videographer who read about my videoblogging job and wanted to know how he could do the same. # I advised him to pitch a proposal to a company he’d [...]

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ZFS Discovery Day: Understanding the Technology

February 9, 2009

Tim Thomas presents are part of Sun UK’s ZFS Discovery Day. ~40 mins. download for iPod filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Some Days…

February 9, 2009

We decided to send out the OpenSolaris repositories to OpenSolaris user groups worldwide on iPods. Turns out you can’t copy iPods on a USB duplicator (no big surprise), so I spent three days copying the repos to them individually… Then I made ~240 USB sticks with videos, also for the OSUGs…

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-02-08

February 8, 2009

@divinacucina yummy! especially with anchovy dressing in reply to divinacucina # Divorcing Italy went to my mailing list this am, one unsubscribe request already. Folks cherishing a dream prefer to hear the nice stuff. # @divinacucina ooo, must try those. There are times when I have a deep, visceral craving for anchovies. in reply to [...]

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Home Making

February 7, 2009

^ Memories, new and old: An embroidered silk hanging from the Central Cottage Industries Emporium, Delhi, which I bought during an epic shopping spree with Yuti, and the decorated tin trunk I bought in Mumbai from artist Rashmi Dogra while visiting Deepu, combined with an American mission-style dresser. The objects on the dresser include figurines [...]

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Divorcing Italy

February 1, 2009

Rossella and I returned to Italy the week before Christmas, having been away since June 30th. That was the longest period I’d spent out of Italy in 18 years. I was uneasy about this re-entry, expecting it to be traumatic. I thought I would be making a decision about whether I would ever willingly live [...]

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