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YouTube Transcription FAIL

January 30, 2012

YouTube’s new, experimental automatic audio transcription still needs a lot of work. It seems to have particular difficulty with non-American accents, or with people speaking quickly – which describes most Joyent engineers! I’m sure it will improve, probably quickly, but we should keep for posterity the bizarre yet poetic discourse of a Brendan Gregg technical presentation [...]

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Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor

January 30, 2012

Robert Mustacchi’s talk at SCALE 10x. An excellent introduction to what SmartOS is and why it’s better. Want to learn more? Come meet Robert at the Joyent Cloud Meetup/Office Hours Jan 31. 5-7 pm. Beer and pizza provided! 60 minutes (playlist of 5 parts), shot and edited by Deirdré Straughan slides

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Performance Analysis: new tools and concepts from the cloud

January 30, 2012

Brendan Gregg, Lead Performance Engineer, Joyent, speaks at SCALE 10x. full slide deck 4-part playlist, total 60 mins, shot and edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Index of Videos

December 18, 2011

All my videos [to 2007] are listed here in reverse chronological order of the date they were shot, newest on top. To visit the related web page, click on the title. To download the video, right-click on the video filename and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”. Work in progress – there are [...]

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Katrina: What Happened in the Hospitals

December 10, 2011

The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina: Celia’s Story

December 8, 2011

The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina: The Effects on Communities

December 6, 2011

The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina: Effects on the Middle Class

December 3, 2011

The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina: 9th Ward

November 30, 2011

Including a good look at some of the houses Brad Pitt helped build. The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina: Don’t Bring Your Kids Here

November 30, 2011

Had a post-Katrina tour of New Orleans with my cousin Celia. Here she explains why many dispossessed New Orleanians with children will not be returning. The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina: Corruption

November 30, 2011

The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina Tour: Xes

November 30, 2011

The New Projects Xes Effects on the Middle Class Don’t Bring Your Kids Here Corruption The Effects on Communities 9th Ward Celia’s Story What Happened in the Hospitals

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Katrina: The New Projects

November 29, 2011

During my recent trip to New Orleans, I spent a night with my cousin Celia. The next morning she took me on a private Katrina tour, recounting her own experiences as well as what happened then and is happening now in our ancestral city. I’ve divided approximately 30 minutes of footage into topical segments, and [...]

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The Road from Oakville

November 18, 2011

In a Himalayan hill station, just getting up the driveway can be an adventure…

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New Orleans Street Performers

November 17, 2011

Didn’t get the band’s name, not even entirely sure what language she’s singing in. Damn. They were good.

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Street Bluegrass, New Orleans

November 16, 2011
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Cheeky Crows

November 14, 2011

More urban wildlife in India. These were bathing in a puddle on a lawn at Humayun’s tomb in Delhi.

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Nighttime Music

November 13, 2011

We ended up at the Oak Wine bar to listen to Coco Robicheaux because of a personal connection to someone who was playing with him. Not my usual sort of scene: music to loud to enjoy conversation, but too much chatter to enjoy the music…

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New Orleans Parade

November 13, 2011

You can’t hardly walk down the street in New Orleans without people throwing stuff at you…

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Street Performers in New Orleans

November 11, 2011

Music! Chihuahuas!

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