April 2010

Performance Instrumentation Counters

April 30, 2010

download part 1 for iPod download part 2 for iPod An informal discussion among Roch Bourbonnais, Brendan Gregg, and Jim Mauro. Some context from Brendan here.

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Filebench Architecture

April 29, 2010

download for iPod – slides here Drew Wilson presents at the Open Storage Summit 2009.

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Storage Re-Provisioning with COMSTAR

April 28, 2010

download for iPod Mike LaSpina presents at the Open Storage Summit, 2009.

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Storage FMA

April 28, 2010

download for iPod – slides here Eric Schrock presents at the Open Storage Summit, 2009. filmed by Deirdré Straughan

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Home Update

April 24, 2010

Today Ikea delivered a queen-sized memory foam mattress and “support” (Ikea’s version of a box spring). I also bought additional wooden legs to raise it up a bit (hoping to be able to stash suitcases underneath), but couldn’t put them on myself. Well, I could, but it will require two people to flip the support [...]

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Seeing Rainbows

April 24, 2010

^ rhubarb! It’s a gorgeous spring day in San Francisco, so I walked over to the farmers’ market at the Ferry terminal, saw lots of amazingly beautiful produce, and bought a a little of it. ^Honey in a rainbow of flavors. ^ Flowering borage (yes, I had to ask) and tubers for tasting. ^ I [...]

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Home Update

April 20, 2010

This wall of my bedroom is pretty much done, with a cheap-but-capacious dresser from Ikea, Elfquest prints, decorative bark balls bought on the street in Porto Alegre, and the etched mirror bought at Tribal Route during my recent visit to Mumbai. The merino sheep is from last summer’s trip to New Zealand, but he’d been [...]

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Learn Italian in Song: Domani 21/04/09

April 18, 2010

Jessica aka @italylogue asked me a while ago to translate this song done as a fundraiser for survivors of the L’Aquila earthquake, but it slipped to the bottom of my inbox/to do list. However, I can claim that it’s appropriate to resurrect this request now that we’re almost at the anniversary of the song. The [...]

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Coolest Women’s Room Ever

April 17, 2010

…but if I told you where it was I’d have to kill you. Only drawback is you can’t really see whether your hands are clean. I’m told the men’s urinals were black, too.

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The Twitter Diaries to 2010-04-15: SF, CO, UK, India, Las Vegas…

April 16, 2010

Being on the bleeding edge, I spend a lot of time justifying what I’m doing. I look forward to video being so obvious that no one asks. # @glynnfoster See you here! # Not watching the Oscars. Spent the afternoon /making/ film. Maybe not Oscar caliber, but it’ll be big stuff in my corner of [...]

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Planet Hollywood, Planet Vegas

April 15, 2010

This week I was in Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters conference/show. I had booked a room at Planet Hollywood because I thought the folks I was going with/for would be there. When I checked in at the desk, I was told I’d been upgraded to a suite. This surprised me, but the [...]

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My New View

April 11, 2010

^ The 180-degree panorama from my 9th-floor balcony. Quite a change of scene from suburban Colorado! I returned from India (Oracle Tech Days in Hyderabad, visit to friends in Bombay) to Denver the evening of March 29th, spent a lot of that night packing, was in the Broomfield office the 30th. The 31st I loaded [...]

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Deirdré, Defined

April 2, 2010
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