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Index of Videos

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 probably many links on this page that I still need to fix!

  1. Beginning with I: The Trailerswfwmvm4v
  2. Landour Snow, Dec 10, 2007
  3. Woodstock Arts Evening, Dec 8, 2007
  4. Woodstock School Jazz Band, Dec 3, 2007
  5. Woodstock School Christmas Chapel Concert Dec 2, 2007
  6. Landour Wedding Party, Dec 1, 2007
  7. “Taming of the Shrew” Wedding Dance, Nov 16, 2007
  8. Hummingbirds in New Mexicoflv – Aug, 2007
  9. Roasting Green Chiles – Aug 17, 2007
  10. Tin Tin Su and Our Lady of Drosophila – Jul 15, 2007
  11. Song: Amo Tutte le Signore – Jul 15, 2007
  12. Fanfara dei BersaglieriJul 3, 2007
  13. Getting Girls Into Science Early – Jun 3, 2007
  14. ‘E Cal’arrosteswfm4v
  15. Il Castello di Vezioswf – m4v Apr 28, 2007
  16. Il Muro di Sormanom4v Jan 31, 2007
  17. Windy Sunday on Lake Comoswfm4v Oct 9, 2006
  18. The Italian Correspondent (part of the Node 666 video collaboration – fiction!) Sep, 2006 – notable as the only time, so far, that I have appeared in front of the camera! – YouTube
  19. Parc Guellswfm4v Aug 16, 2006
  20. Casa Batllóswfm4vwmvdivx May 21, 2006
  21. The Streets of Barcelonaswfm4vwmv May 1, 2006
  22. Good Friday, Jesus Christ Superstarswfm4v Apr 25, 2006
  23. Post-Funeral Jazz and Barbecueswfm4vwmv Apr 12, 2006
  24. Funeral Recessionalswfm4vdivxwmv Apr 1, 2006
  25. Graveside Remarksswfm4v Apr 11, 2006
  26. Funeral Processionalswfm4vwmv Apr 1, 2006
  27. The Giving Treeswfm4vwmv Apr 1, 2006
  28. Dad’s Eulogy for Rosieswfm4v Apr 1, 2006
  29. What I Said at Rosie’s Funeralswfm4v Apr 1, 2006
  30. Mantovaswfm4vwmv Mar 6, 2006
  31. Domo Arigatoswfm4v Feb 18, 2006 (filmed Jan 7, 2006)
  32. Video Comment on Current Events – swfm4vwmv Feb 12, 2006
  33. Video Postcard from Leccoswf Feb 11, 2006
  34. Heavy Snowfall in Lecco Jah 27, 2006
  35. In the Kitchen at Spankyvilleswfm4v Jan 3, 2006
  36. You Can Leave Your Cat Onswfm4v Dec 30, 2005
  37. Flying Over the Swiss Alpsswfm4v Dec 26, 2005
  38. Wind-Up Soulswfm4v
  39. Woodstock Reminiscences on Videoswfm4v
  40. Christmas in Lecco m4v Dec 24, 2005
  41. Italian Christmas Carolsswfm4v Dec 4, 2005
  42. La Transumanzam4vsnow.swf Nov 19, 2005
  43. Video Postcard from Villa Monasteroswfwmvdivx Oct 16, 2005
  44. Sunday Sing-Alongwmvm4v Oct 2, 2005
  45. Corteo Manzoniano 2005swfdivxwmvm4v – Oct 1, 2005
  46. House Tortoiseswfm4v Aug 15, 2005
  47. Mehndi Hand Painting – – wmvdivx – Aug 14, 2005
  48. Transportation in Jaipurswfwmvm4v Aug 9, 2005
  49. English Words in Hindi Scriptswfm4v Aug 9, 2005
  50. Teej Festivalswfwmvdivx – Aug 8, 2005
  51. How to Tie a Turbanswfwmvdivx – Aug 8, 2005
  52. Jantr Mantrswf wmvdivx – Aug 7, 2005
  53. Handprinting Cloth Demonstrationswfwmvdivx – Aug 6, 2005
  54. Elephant Ride to Amber Fort, Jaipurswfwmvdivx – Aug 6, 2005
  55. Inside Amber FortswfdivxwmvM4V – Aug 6, 2005
  56. How to Weave a Handloom Carpet swfwmvdivx – Aug 6, 2005
  57. Evening Songs at the Samode Haveli swfwmvdivx – Aug 5, 2005
  58. Learn the Indian National Anthem swf wmvdivx – Aug 3 , 2005
  59. Cicadas – Aug 2, 2005
  60. Tibetan Prayer Wheelsswf Aug 1, 2005
  61. Mussoorie Monsoon Melodyswfwmvdivx – Jul 30, 2005
  62. Tenzing’s Monkey Talesswfwmvdivx – July 29, 2005
  63. Old Delhi Stationswf – July 28, 2005
  64. Old Delhi at Nightswf – July 27, 2005
  65. Video Postcard from Bellagioswf – Jul, 2005
  66. Italia Marching Show Bandswmvdivx – Jul 3, 2005
  67. I Love a Paradeswf swf wmvM4V – Jul 2, 2005
  68. Transport Surprisesswfswf – Jun 25, 2005
  69. MBA Graduation Ceremonyswfm4v Jun 10, 2005
  70. And She Wasmov – Jun 7, 2005
  71. A Close Shavemov – Jun 3, 2005
  72. Lecco Kayaker – mov – Jun, 2005
  73. Milan Central Stationmov – May 24, 2005
  74. Kids on Scootersmov – May 11, 2005
  75. Javaswfwmvdivx – Apr 16, 2005
  76. The Great Escapeswfwmvdivx – Apr 16, 2005
  77. The Hundred Years’ Warwmv Mar 10, 2005
  78. What Am I Doing Here?swf – Mar 10, 2005
  79. Commuting Kidsswf – Feb or Mar, 2005
  80. La Bottega del Maialeswfwmvdivx – Feb 25, 2005
  81. Spankyville, Subtitledswf wmvdivx – Feb 13, 2005
  82. Welcome to Spankyvilleswf – Feb 13, 2005
  83. Winter Wonderlandswf – Jan 22, 2005
  84. Bright Lights, Big Cityswfwmvdivx – Jan 10, 2005
  85. Jewelry Repairswf wmvdivx – Nov 3, 2004
  86. Jantr Mantr Delhiswf – Nov 2, 2004
  87. Delhi Bartenderswf – Nov 2, 2004
  88. Delhi Dancersswf wmvdivx – Nov 2, 2004
  89. Making Rumali Rotiswfwmvdivx – Oct 30, 2004
  90. Air Tablaswf – Oct 30, 2004
  91. Sitar Concert with Sanjeeb Sircarwmvdivx – Oct 30, 2004
  92. Making Jalebisswf – Oct 30, 2004
  93. Making Naanswf – Oct 29, 2004
  94. Campfire
  95. Dancing Queen
  96. Presentation and Tea for Dick Wechter – Oct 29, 2004
  97. Midlands with Festive Lightsswf – Oct 28, 2007
  98. Seen from an Indian Trainswfwmvdivx – Oct 28, 2004
  99. Corteo Manzoniano: The Grim Sweepers – swf – Oct 10, 2004
  100. Corteo Manzoniano: Parade! – swf – Oct 10, 2004
  101. Corteo Manzoniano: La Peste – swf – Oct 10, 2004
  102. Corteo Manzoniano: Procession – swf – Oct 10, 2004
  103. Corteo Manzoniano: The Kidnapping of Luciaswf – Oct 10, 2004
  104. Corteo Manzoniano: Tradimento!swf – Oct 10, 2004
  105. Moving Inswf – Sep 27, 2004
  106. Moving Outswf – Sep 27, 2004
  107. Volunteersswf – Sep 25, 2004
  108. Blues Brothers Come to Leccoswf – Sep 18, 2004
  109. Moving the Chandelierswf – Sep 24, 2004
  110. Funiculi, Funiculaswf – Aug 22, 2004
  111. Ristorante il Caprioloswf – Sep 6, 2004
  112. Summer Storm Over Lake Comoswf – Aug 20, 2004
  113. Ross & Hamishswf – Aug 14, 2004
  114. The Ferry Arrivesswf – Aug 14, 2004
  115. Ferry Loading and Departureswf – Aug 14, 2004
  116. Introducing the Turtlesswf – Aug 3, 2004
  117. Summer Fun, Italian Styleswf – July 27, 2004
  118. On the Road to Sienaswf – July 27, 2004
  119. Italian Gospelswf – July 20, 2004
  120. “A Sua Immagine”swf – July 19, 2004
  121. Wind-Up Soul – Jul, 2003

 

New Videos: The Gregg Performance Series

Working for Joyent, I continue to create lots of technical video (~32 hours of edited material to date). Most recent examples, here, are the start of a series I’m doing with Brendan Gregg (author of the DTrace book). In the course of his research to make these videos, Brendan even made some surprising discoveries about tools that everyone thought they knew all about.

Above: Brendan Gregg discusses vmstat, a performance tool used in Solaris-based operating systems, including Solaris 10, SmartOS, IllumOS, that shows the health of the entire system. Part 2 covers all the fields in detail. Part 3 talks about how vmstat works in Joyent’s SmartOS.

^ Brendan talks about the 1, 5 and 15 minute load averages as reported by tools such as uptime and prstat, and then explains in details how they work on Solaris-based Operating Systems including SmartOS, and reveals why they aren’t really 1, 5 and 15 minute averages.

Below: Brendan discusses the key fields of mpstat, another performance tool used in Solaris-based operating systems, including Solaris 10, SmartOS, Illumos, to shows the health of the CPUs on multi-processor systems. Part 2 covers all the fields in detail. Part 3 is a deeper dive into the fields using other tools.

 

node.js Community Event: Rough Cut Videos

Joyent hosted a node.js community event at our San Francisco offices the other evening, in which Ryan Dahl announced a new version of node.js, and Brendan Gregg showed some amazing stuff you can do with Joyent Cloud Analytics on your no.de hosted site to understand what’s going on in your node.js app.

For more details on cloud analytics, see Dave’s and Robert’s blogs, and two more hours of video with Bryan and Brendan demoing.

Technical difficulties with UStream meant I didn’t have a stream recorded to their servers that night, technical difficulties with everything else meant I couldn’t get these rough cuts hosted anywhere til now. This is exactly what you would have seen on the stream (and more), including the bad camera angle which was forced by… oh never mind. A better view of cloud analytics will be forthcoming.

(NB: These videos disappeared from Joyent some time ago. Sorry.)

The Faces of Sun

I’ve been meaning for a long time to make a video tribute to the amazing people of Sun Microsystems. It has been my honor and privilege to work with some of the finest minds in this industry (or any industry), many of whom I also got to film at Sun conferences and other events worldwide.

While it’s breaking my heart to witness the diaspora of Sun talent, I take comfort in knowing that, in new companies with new projects, these folks will cause a thousand new technologies to bloom. I look forward to seeing what everyone gets up to – including those who remain at Oracle – and hope you’ll all stay in touch and keep me posted. Though a situation like Sun may be unique and unrepeatable, I expect I’ll work with you again someday.

Most of the footage shown here I shot myself over three years, in varying conditions and with varying equipment. A few of these clips are someone else’s footage that I post-produced or edited. A few of the more engaging clips were created by the teams participating in the Go Game during the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit held in 2008. Those aren’t my work, but – if you’ve got footage of David Korn dancing, you use it! (No, he was not a Sun employee; there are a few other “friends of” in here as well.)

The photos are mostly mine. I chose the song primarily for its bouncy and variable tempo, so if you find yourself juxtaposed with an unflattering lyric, don’t take it personally – it wasn’t intentional. Apologies to the many who were left out – I have too much material for one three-minute song! If you’re neither in the video nor in the Missing list below, let me know in the comments and I’ll add you.

Dec 28, 2010 – Have started updating the lists below with “where are they now” information – feel free to add comments if you know something I don’t! (And can add people who aren’t on these lists.)

Starring

in order of appearance
  • (Bruno Souza) at OSCON 2009 – Brazilian government?
  • Dominic Kay at SNIA SNW 2008 – Oracle
  • Tim Thomas at Sun’s London office, Jan 2009 – ?
  • Valerie Bubb Fenwick at OSCON 2009- Oracle
  • Cindy Swearingen at Sun’s Broomfield campus, Jan 2010- Oracle
  • John Sonnenschein, Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit, Santa Cruz, 2008 – Joyent
  • John Fowler at SC08, Austin- Oracle
  • Andy Bechtolsheim at SC08, Austin – Arista
  • Rick Ramsey & Darren Moffat at OOW10 – Oracle
  • Rossella Laeng & April Hall at SC08, Austin – n/a
  • Jeff Jackson celebrating Mardi Gras at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2009 – ?
  • Josh Simons at SC08, Austin – ?
  • Sara Dornsife at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008 – PayPal
  • Sunay Tripathi at the Security Summit at LISA09 – ?
  • Roch Bourbonnais at Sun’s San Francisco office, March 2010- Oracle
  • George Wilson in San Francisco, July 2010 – Delphix
  • Constantin Gonzalez at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2009- Oracle
  • Niall Power at Sun’s Dublin office, Jan 2009
  • Dan Templeton, Miha Ahronovitz, Gregory Shirin at SC08, Austin- Oracle
  • Mike Shapiro & Steve O’Grady in San Francisco, Sept 2008 – ?, still at RedMonk
  • Rich Breuckner SC09 – InsideHPC (owner)
  • Mark Cruciani & Margaret Hamburger in Sun’s Eagan office – ?, Oracle
  • Drew Wilson & Sherry Menne celebrating Mardi Gras at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2009 – Oracle
  • Diana Wadding, Tina Hartshorn, Wendy Ames at the Open Storage Summit 2009 – Oracle
  • ? & Jerry Jelinek at CommunityOne 2009 – Jerry’s at Joyent
  • Margaret Hamburger & Matthew Baier in Broomfield – Oracle
  • Brendan Gregg at Fishworks 2010 – Joyent
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Rafael Vanoni, Vitorio Sassi at FISL, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2009 – President of Brazil, ?, ?
  • Jeff Bonwick, Bryan Cantrill playing the marker game at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – mystery startup, Joyent
  • Roma Baron at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – Oracle
  • Bryan Cantrill at LISA09 – Joyent
  • Sumit Gupta at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2007 – ?
  • Lori Alt at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2008 – Oracle
  • Jeff Cheeney, Reed, ? at SNW 2008 – ?
  • Adam Leventhal at the Open Storage Summit 2009 – Delphix
  • Dave Miner at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10 – Oracle
  • Peter Bojanic at the HPC Consortium 2008 – ?
  • Dale Layfield at SC09
  • Larry McIntosh at SC09
  • Terri Wischmann at the Open Storage Summit 2008 – Oracle
  • Chris Horne at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2007
  • Dan Roberts at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – dev tools company
  • Chris Armes at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – Oracle
  • Bill Nesheim at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – Oracle
  • Bill Pijewski, Mike Harsch at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2010 – Joyent
  • Thorsten Freauf at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2008 – Oracle
  • Mayuresh Nirhali at Tech Days, Hyderabad, 2010; Paul Needle at Sun’s London office, 2009 – Oracle
  • Prasad Pai at the HPC Consortium 2008 – Oracle
  • Cristiano Basso & Brian Leonard at FISL 2009 – ?, Oracle
  • Lynn Rohrer, Simon Phipps, fan at FISL 2009 – Oracle, Forgerock
  • FISL attendees 2009
  • Arun Gupta, Eduardo Lima, Mauricio Leal at FISL 2009 – Oracle, ?, ?
  • Alan DuBoff et al Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008 – ?
  • Dan Maslowski & Scott Tracy at CommunityOne 2009- Oracle
  • Scott Rotondo at OSCON 2009- Oracle
  • Dennis Maher at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
  • Ashu Tripathi at the Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference 2008- Oracle
  • Bruno Souza & Jack Adams at OSCON 2009
  • Juergen Schleich at home 2009
  • Simon Phipps, Charlie Boyle, Angel Camacho in Porto Alegre, Brazil 2009 – Forgerock, Oracle, EMC
  • Java fans with Roger Brinkley at FISL 2009
  • Teresa Giacomini at FISL 2009- Oracle
  • Tim Bray & Bryan Cantrill at OOW09 – Google, Joyent
  • Durjoy Mazumdar at OOW09- Oracle
  • Joost Pronk at OOW10- Oracle
  • Darren Moffat at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
  • Liane Praza, Dave Miner, Bart Smaalders, Dan Price, Dan Roberts at LISA10- Oracle, except for Dan R.
  • Markus Flierl at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
  • Liane Praza at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
  • Glenn Faden at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
  • Nicolas Droux at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
  • Ellard Roush at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
  • Art Licht at the Open Road to Storage, Broomfield, 2009- Oracle
  • Alex Barclay at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Sept 2009
  • Meenakshi Kaul-Basu at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2008- Oracle
  • Gia-Khanh Nguyen at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2008- Oracle
  • Graham Scattergood at Sun’s London office 2009
  • Jim Mauro (stunt) & Dan Price at LISA10- Oracle
  • Jack Adams & Nick Solter at OSCON 2009 – ?, Context Optional
  • Diana Wadding at Sun’s Broomfield campus 2009- Oracle
  • OSUG Leaders, Tim Marsland at CommunityOne 2009 – ?
  • Kelly Nishimura & Bill Franklin at CommunityOne 2009 – ?, ?
  • Joy Marshall, Frank Lindquist, Lynn Rohrer at CommunityOne 2009- Oracle, ?, Oracle
  • Bruno Souza & Aaron Newcomb at FISL 2009 – ?, Oracle
  • David Gwynne & Garrett D’Amore at the Kernel Conference Australia 2009 – ?, Nexenta
  • Kris Hake at CommunityOne 2009
  • Lynn Rohrer at FISL 2009- Oracle
  • Christoph Schuba at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
  • Drew Wilson at LISA08- Oracle
  • Fritz Ferstl at the Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference 2008
  • Jeff Bonwick & Bill Moore at SNIA 2008, maybe – mystery startup (both of them)
  • ? & David Korn Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008
  • Ben Rockwood & Deirdré Straughan at LISA09 – Joyent
  • Kuldip Oberoi & Don Kretsch at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2010- Oracle
  • Jim Mauro at Sun’s San Francisco office 2010- Oracle
  • Brendan Gregg at Fishworks 2010 – Joyent
  • Jeff Cheeney, Jim Grisanzio, Michelle Luna, Chris Baker Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008 – ?, Oracle, Oracle, Oracle
  • Harriet Coverston at the SAM-QFS BoF at SC09 – ?
  • Brendan Gregg at Sun’s Broomfield campus, FROSUG Oct 2009 – “Who turned out the lights?”

Missing

People I have actually filmed but could not lay hands on the footage, or there just wasn’t room for it (this list is destined to grow). Some of these videos are were for a time available on blogs.sun.com/video, others were lost in the move to Oracle (not by me!). A lot of the video I shot for Sun/Oracle (and more) is on my YouTube channel.

  • Aaron Dailey- Oracle
  • John Forte- Oracle
  • Jim Dunham
  • Spencer Shepler
  • Robert Thurlow- Oracle
  • Mark Carlson- Oracle
  • …and a bunch of others at SNIA SDC 2007. And 2008.
  • Stephen S. Teppler Esq.
  • Glynn Foster- Oracle
  • the NWAM team- Oracle
  • Peter Karlsson- Oracle
  • Philip Torchinsky- Oracle
  • Bill Nesheim- Oracle
  • …and several others at Tech Days Hyderabad
  • Charles Baker- Oracle
  • Clay Baenziger- Oracle
  • Arnaud Lacour – ?
  • …and others at various editions of FROSUG
  • James McPherson- Oracle
  • Max Bruning – Joyent
  • Sherry Moore- Oracle
  • Gavin Maltby
  • …and others at the Kernel Conference Australia 2009

For more nostalgia, see Jim Grisanzio’s beautiful album of OpenSolaris community photos (yes, I’m in there, too).