The Twitter Diaries: May 22-June 5, 2011

@trine I wish there was an automated tool that would grab all those embeds etc for me – it’s a manual process right now #
@NomdeB At some point, every organization or part thereof, Fed or private, is more concerned about perpetuating itself than in doing its job #
@NomdeB to many at lower levels, the exec suite is the exclusive domain of them. It’s a gulf that only execs cd bridge, few choose to try #
@LusciousPear catch up for a drink / meal this week? #
@nicolamattina speriamo anche prima! #
I’m at Zip Zap Hair (245 Fillmore St, btw Haight & Laussat, San Francisco) #

I’m at Burgermeister (138 Church St, at Reservoir St, San Francisco)  #
5 years ago a bunch of videobloggers observed the end of the world: Node666 The Italian Correspondent #
Laid-back weekend in which I did a lot of small necessary stuff, right down to vacuuming floors and scrubbing the tub. That’s enough of that #
You don’t have to dig far to realize few people have had a normal life. And so what? Whatever else normal may be, it’s vastly overrated. #
@izs At least you got a note. I just got a crumpled bumper. #
@webmink Not having much luck with it – only one song downloaded in hours #
video: Disk IO Throttling for Optimal Performance (bottom of the page)  #
The short they were filming in my garage this weekend sounded like fun, hope it grows up to be a feature-length film. #
@webmink cloud drive #
@webmink Too much demand. I trust Amazon to make it right eventually. #
@webmink Also wondering about the quality – getting some crackle on the one track I’ve got so far that doesn’t seem intentional #
more new Videos from Joyent #
@rattay where? #
@hudsonette I don’t care about these people.Maybe we all just need to realize that it rarely matters who’s having consensual sex with whom. #
comment on my site today: the word secchioni means nerd. i looked it up. wow for a smart guy ur really stupid – Maybe, but I’m not a guy #
@hudsonette I agree the gag law is stupid and ineffective. Just don’t see why people care about celebrity sex lives. #
@ikai Those books go everywhere. Not sure in the end that I actually liked them. #GameofThrones #
@rattay I’m jealous. 😉 #
@philiph hmm #
All right, Milan – are you ready for me again? June. Be there. #
@BSyria As someone once said of Jesus: Reckon they’d just nail him up if he came down again. #
Doin’ what comes naturally – which is video. #
@dexterous like the new icon – now we can finally see what you look like! #
OMG there’s a Katamari app for the iphone! #
If we refuse to persevere and solve important issues in the cloud, then we might as well turn off our computers now.  #
@philiph That’s a rationalization fos I don’t like what’s going on, but try to assume it’s all for the best… in the end… somehow… #
@trevoro Where are you going? Timing and destination are important in who you meet on planes #
Events: Joyeurs in New York, Vancouver, San Francisco and London Joyeur  #
YouTube – Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine #

@NomdeB Hon, you ARE a geek. 😉 #GeekPrideDay #
Sometimes, all you can do is laugh. #
@FouzAbd That’s what religion is mostly about – a tool used to keep (other) people in line. #women2drive #
@FouzAbd Agreed, but many religions as practiced mandate the oppression of somebody else, in the name of purity, faith, etc. #
the next war between the states will begin over the TSA? #
@portertech not necessarily: In Loco Parentis: Supervising School Trips in Italy #
Brushing up my Italian for an upcoming work trip to Milan. Yes, life is ironic.: I had to move to California to find work in Italy! #
@jimgris As someone said to me when I ldeparted: No foreigner ever left Italy wealthier than he arrived. #
@riccardo_iommi Stavolta solo Milano, ma forse dopo l’estate. #
Ok, Milan: I arrive June 5, depart June 23 (a few days in the UK in there). Tweetup? #
@bavarious You might find this useful #
RT @joyent: Joyent webinar Architecting a Drama Free Cloud starts NOW sign up here #
@ikai Press release writers never seem to take into account that we are never as excited as they are about their particular piece of news. #
@LusciousPear Looks like a lovely change of pace. #fb #
Our dreams may be intensely interesting to us, not so much to others. I dreamed I was going to Pakistan, on a train, with Bill Gates. #
@lskrocki Dunno about the ones in the bush, either, though. #unsexy #
Note to self: learn to sleep past 6 am, esp if you went to bed at midnight. #
@NomdeB uhh… set a thief to catch a thief? #
I rarely dream about people I actually know – which may be safer for them! #
@sogrady from 101? 9th st exit if you’re going to SOMA #
@sogrady from Google maps, looks like a good idea at present #
@sogrady 280 is green to 16th st #
@benr Because it’s fun is sufficient reason. #
@PavelAnni No guilt – the things I do for fun are usually also productive and profitable, whether making a video or cooking a meal #
@LusciousPear Definitely no dressage bend in that neck. #
Have discovered that straight tequila with lime rubbed around the rim of the shot glass is divine. No, no salt yet. Doesn’t seem necessary. #
Our star performer @brendangregg is stranded in NYC – flight canceled due to weather. Mad when I can’t take care of my talent. #
I would be a very good travel agent/personal assistant/butler, but it’s not something I actually want to make a career of. #
@nonstick you’re coming to CA? #
@nonstick 6 kids? Sure they weren’t Catholic? 😉 #
@nonstick It’ll be great to have you out here – we’ll meet at last! With no snow to get in the way. #
@NomdeB Costco makes a more than decent tequila, that’s what I’m drinking. #
@lq_feed This might help  #Solaris #OpenSolaris #
@fitzage at a guess, someone tried to curl their eyelashes #
Daughter, completing 2 weeks’ training at Apple, writes: I just got paid to learn stuff! Fuck the system! #
… and that, little Grasshopper, in the greatest lesson of all! #
@lderezinski Seems to be running in the family today #
@lq_feed some videos in Joyent’s YouTube channel may also help:  #Solaris #OpenSolaris #
@sacca Finally! Evidence that somebody got raptured. Probably to Vegas. #
@lderezinski ooh, ouch. Can’t figure out if my headache is due to allergies, sinus, or what. #
Speach for speech – typo, misspelling, or Freudian slip? #
@StopBeck Maybe the idea of being owned and mastered appeals to him. #
@webmink I am personally benefitting from exactly that aspect of it – and so is my daughter. Huge weight off my mind. #
Health care reform is working, folks writes some raving Communist over at Forbes 😉 #
illiterate women from India’s Untouchables as village health workers, delivering babies, curing disease, saving lives #
I would look out at the audience, hearing laughter and murmurs, but seeing only stern masks.#
Italian getting a workout but this is probably Neapolitan I’m hearing #
…if it was Sicilian I’d more or less understand it. #
@Myrna_SF Rome on its own is well worth more than a week, I wouldn’t bother going elsewhere. #
Dear @maddow We love you, but we’re very tired of that ad in your online edition. Can you find somebody else to sponsor? #
RT @planet3org: Mutual Incomprehension – a lot of insight in one short piece #
Sometimes, an activity which requires close attention but almost no brainpower is exactly what I need. #
@italylogue meet @Myrna_SF who will be in Rome soon. Bet you have some recommendations for her! #
I read that as “Even Great Scientific Thinkers like fucking @rosannecash#
Had plans to do stuff today, but feeling too lazy. At some point I’ll need food, though. #
@LusciousPear I demand photographic evidence #ohyeah #fb #
Pulling a large suitcase, while wearing peep-toe shoes with 6 stiletto heels, should be an Olympic event. No, I will not be competing. #
Just saw Blazing Saddles again. Still howlingly funny. Couldn’t be made today I suspect. #
Italy leans left again in a round slap to Berlusconi and his center right majority. I’ll enjoy my upcoming visit that much more. #
Very happy today is a holiday, because the next four weeks are going to be extremely busy, in several different ways. #
as the world fights for freedom, we are going the opposite direction The far right is declaring all-out war on progress #
@leapingwoman Let’s get together in July and compare the past month. 😉 #
The true shame of this country is that we have to take a clown like Sarah Palin seriously. #
@NomdeB Some v good points. What’s even sadder is that Obama scares people because he’s urbane and intelligent, more than because he’s black #
Well, you know Jesus said Suffer the little children. Catholic Adoption Agency Will Shut Down#
employee perceptions of work conditions may also have a big impact on the bottom line of employing organizations.  #
the 1st user manual I ever wrote: http://bit.ly/iYr4Tv #

Google analytics for my site is always fun. Something on my site was apparently assigned as part of a college course. #
…and I’m a wikipedia citation on Italias surnames. #
The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster. It should be ditched – A-effing-MEN! #
@SmugMug well sure! #
Someday, somewhere in the world, some architect will figure out that you need more women’s restrooms. #
!@^#^^ EanyJet charges 16 euros to say for my damned ticket with a credit card. #
conventional wisdom was that bilingualism was a disadvantage. Thanks to science, we now know that the opposite is true #
@Myrna_SF RyanAir is ok, though they had different ways do cheat customers on the website, last time I looked. #
@milouness@NomdeB Doesn’t bode well for the US that we value faith and sincerely held ignorance over knowledge and facts. #
@anildash Yes, it really takes very little to let people know you appreciate them, and can mean so very much. #
I’d be glad to see a draft that included hawkish commentators & Congress who are so proud to see others heading to war #
@pelegri Some foreign parents in Italy were discouraged by drs , schools from raising kids bilingual because it wd retard language skills #
Raising a Bilingual Child  #
@pelegri Am I correct that Catalan is no longer so dominated by Castillian, at least in its mative areas? Got that impression in Barcelona #
RT @italylogue: What to Pack for #Italy: Summer Travel http://bit.ly/iJDpiy – attention colleagues! (went shopping this wkd – LINEN) #
Iowa State Rep. Brent Crane said rape was the hand of the Almighty at work. http://bit.ly/kdbrm7 #
Getting rid of a car. Liked my Rav4 in CO but so don’t need it in SF. (@ San Francisco Toyota) http://4sq.com/lnCPS1 #
I am car-free! #
.@NomdeB Got rid of mine, they let me off the lease a bit early – there’s big demand for used Toyotas night now. #
@shawnferry If Rep Crane could be raped and get pregnant himself he might change his tune. I don’t hear of any women saying this rubbish. #
@jeffreytaylor welcome home! #
It’s that time again: Apple logos going up on Moscone for WWDC . Just as well I’ll be out of town. #
Gotta love a guy who keeps his cool in the face of such sustained stupidity: @RepWeiner http://bit.ly/jbTVW8 #
Raising a Bilingual Child #
Hmm, bit.ly spam? My earlier tweet of my own article on bilingualism shows up in my bit’ly report with a spam title. Anyone else seen such? #
@notmatt hmm, strange. Both the links in the bit.ly report go to the correct page, or at least now they do. #
YouTube – Rough Island Band – You Can Call Me Al #

@ditucci don’t worry, it’s just hormones., will pass in a few years. Just watch out for the ones that say: You really want ANOTHER baby. #
@philiph sorry to hear, can we help? #
One thinks, I wish you wouldn’t just look at me. I wish you would listen to me.  #
@sh1mmer What did you do? 😉 #
@gaspart Quella frase È una delle cose che decisamente NON mi manca dell’italia. #
@LusciousPear Now you like everything with a horse on it? I can dig. #startup #fb #
@LusciousPear The US is full of soccer moms; I was a riding mom #
RT @SFGMC: @SFGiants‘ #itgetsbetter video!  – first major sports org to get behind this effort – kudos Giants! #

YouTube – you’re gonna love tomorrow / love will see us through #

I will not argue with fundies. I will not argue with fundies. I will not argue with fundies. There is no good argument against stupidity. #
@jeffreytaylor Most authors seem unable to resist the need to do exactly that. #
@trevoro Sounds like a recipe for running over a bunch of hot girls when you lose control of the vehicle and end up on the sidewalk. #
@bdha It doesn’t work. These people argue Science is just another form of faith and Evolution is only a theory. #
But it’s all right now,I learned my lesson well.You see, you can’t please everyone,so you got to please yourself #

Pack up the luggage, la la la, unpack the luggage, la la la… – The Glamorous Life #
@edsai aka going to shit. Might be truer than we know. #
@philiph switch to Dvorak, it’ll slow you down while you’re learning #firstworldproblems #sysadmin #
@PCOWandre sad and true #
social media lab: added a Twitter follow button to my site, lets see if this has any .effect on my follower count. #
@brendangregg, subtitled (in English) YouTube – vmstat: Key Fields #
@cote My body wakes up early, I’m productive then. No special virtue – everyone should work when THEY are most productive. #
I guess I’m more of an entrepreneur than I thought. A market need that seems blindingly obvious to me is not being met. #
@jscarp yay! You just keep kicking its ass! #
@philiph ice cream works better in coffee #
@AmnaAhmad Sample, please! #
@milouness Many shopping carts do that themselves! #
is that @sogrady having questionable relations with a server?  #
Bachmann’s educational policies are being challenged by an amazing high school student from Baton Rouge #
@dylanbeattie What, no sound effect? 😉 #kaboomjs #
@ptribble We could make that so much easier for you. 😉 #
If the story doesn’t sound like what you read on Wikipedia, you know who to blame:the elite liberal media #
@ryancnelson not parsing the unbeknownst part of that statement #
@SniperWulfzen awwwww. Congratulations. #4years #
slept til almost 10 (higihly unusual). Now, looking at the rain, I may roll over and go back to sleep. #
8 years ago I wrote (about even earlier times): Elementary School: An Italian Experience #
7 years ago: Macho Animals with Artificial Testicles #
7 years ago: School Mortality in Italy #
7 years ago: The Family That Eats Together #
video: A Close Shave #
4 years ago: Why Send My Child to Woodstock School? #
3 years ago: Visiting Sun Bangalore #
2 years ago: Clay Baenziger is Sysadmin to Go #
2 years ago – I was busy! Upcoming Speaking Engagements #
Anyone else seeing spam links like this in bit.ly? I don’t see this in any way on my site, anyone?  #
@lewellyn Might have been me. I can’t tell if it’s a hack of my site or of bit.ly. If the latter, wd seem to be of limited use to spammers #
@philiph Deep breaths. #
@philiph Geez, there’s just no helping some people. 😉 #
After weeks of doing documentation, taking a mental break doing video again. I need variety. Even if most of my videos are of @brendangregg#
@virtualsteve At CES one year, I learned that it’s possible to overclock a John Deere combine harvester (Deere wanted to prevent it). #
@LusciousPear umm… go to a hotel for the wight? #
The Hellmouth is a new stop on the SF Muni.  #

@avbelow yup #
@sween that makes them smarter than humans #
Just posted a photo  #


damn. Didn’t realize instagram wasn’t saving all the photos I was taking, only the ones I shared. Damn damn damn. #
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@avbelow when and where will you be? #
@avbelow ok, we can meet for drinks or coffee Sunday #
Couples in which one partner commutes for longer than 45 minutes are 40 percent likelier to divorce #
There are three kinds of women: Women who want to be taken care of. Women who want to be in charge. And… #
Gimme Shelter  #

we’re arguing not only over debt ceilings and budgets, but about larger questions of our vision for our country #

The Twitter Diaries: May 15-22, 2011

YouTube – Visualizing Latency with Heatmaps  #

The Twitter Diaries: April 24-May 15, 2011 #
I would not have imagined that any short string of characters could fail to find something on Google, but I was wrong. #
Dear @adobe : Just NOW downloaded and installed a trial of your design suite. When I try to run it, says I have 0 days left. WTF? #
@NomdeB I need to see if it does one specific thing, but I guess I’ll never find out since the trial is apparently broken. Adobe+Mac=suck #
Got tired of trying to figure out how to give Adobe lots of money, and found a 5 app that does exactly what I need. Monday looking better. #
@elijahwright Studs was an early influence forme, I think it shows in many ways. this was another influence: How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive 19 Ed: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot #
@fitzage I’ll be sure to schedule lots of meetings with you and then cancel them. #
there may be no better snack in the world than good crusty bread with good dark chocolate #
@WinnieWongSF Nutella is also good, but sometime try a chunk of dark choc, thin if possible #
@johnnysunshine metal is vegan? #
Cooking from scratch takes time, but it gets my hands off the keyboard, and is more fun than any other domestic work. #
video posted ~4 years ago: Hot Chestnuts! Two Romans Explain How #
Giants to Create It Gets Better Video for LGBT Youth – San Francisco News  #
So many people have great stories, if only they could find an audience. #
another gray day. I’m too sleepy to think of anything clever to tweet. #
Need screenshot of output which Keynote thinks is misspellings. Can’t tell it to turn off red lines, can’t do screenshot in Slideshow view #
Found it. Still wondering why Keynote disables screenshot in Slideshow view. #
The 1-L lama, he’s a priest. the 2-L llama, he’s a beast. And I will bet my silk pajama there isn’t any 3-L lllama! – Ogden Nash #
@sogrady I only ever slept in BA business class with beds that lie totally flat. Then I discovered drugs. Now I can sleep in any seat. #
@sogrady Or, @stephenfry reading Harry Potter. Not boring by any means, but somehow soothing. #
.@lebrun The act of reading a newspaper might in some theoretical sense be relaxing, until you pay attention to the actual news. Or news. #
@redtwitdown you dislike the term, the fromat, or both? (you have my sympathy on all fronts) #
@saraford you’re going to watch them all at once? #
In reality, Im a white Indian. #
The Lord in His wisdom made the fly – and then forgot to tell us why. – Ogden Nash #
@Stana_Katic I might actually be able to help a little with Bollywood, looking into it. #
Though diligent and zealous, he Became a slave to jealousy.(Considering her beauty,’Twas his duty To be that!) #
new video: Cloud as a Business: A Context for Cloud Computing #
experimenting on my site/lab, added a video player with a playlist of all my YouTube vids #
Argh. Everyone stop talking about food! I’m hungry! #
Yes, I am actually in a gym again. After 2 days of overeating, this is needed. Doesnt mean I’m enjoying it. #
@johnnysunshine I only like exercise if it’s disguised as something else. #
Religious and non-religious people have the same kinds of sex, at the same age of onset, at pretty much the same rate #
@HumanityCritic Didn’t stop to ask if he intended it ironically? #
@KatieS I hope she’s too young to automatically think of secretary as a woman who types and fetches coffee #SecState #SecState #progress #
Oracle Solaris Video – column too narrow, no longer possible to access the fullscreen button on the blip.tv vids, argh #
However, all those Solaris videos are also available on my site, with fullscreen etc.  #
Aww… never realized til digging into my site’s analytics that a famous Italian band blogged about my site #
@rbanffy good point (not enough coffee yet), though I’m using a 1680×1050 screen res and any page layout should just work . Bad user exp #
@BrendanG Never too late to learn. 😉 #
@NomdeB And accompanied by a yummy soundtrack. Plot, schmot. #
I think I’ll just listen to this all day – Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides Soundtrack Compilation Mix  #

Been a long time since I had much to do with actual paper. #
Tonight 7:30pm: @brendangregg on DTrace. Copies of his new book to give away. No pizza tonight though.  #
Congratulations to LinkedIn Joyeur #
Everybody Loves My Baby #

TiVo and Clustrix and LinkedIn and Dreamworks Animation are hiring Sysadmins (and devs). #BayLISA #
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott #
@SniperWulfzen I had a cemetery checkin last week. 4Sq’s attitude about it creepily cheerful. #FoursquareIsEverywhere #
YouTube – R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World  #

migraine on a sunny Friday afternoon = suck #
@philiph Hey, you got elite chauffeur service last night. 😉 #sfgoodbye #
@brendangregg will be speaking 5/26 at Percona Live MySQL Conference, New York #
it’s Saturday morning, time to work on my blog. Here’s another rescued video: Windy Sunday on Lake Como #
@quirk The files are just too damned big – takes days to upload. I use a lot of cheap HDs local. #
@jeffreytaylor @trine The ultimate videoblog! #
@jeffreytaylor How very beautiful and appropriate. My memories of John will always be strongly associated with flowers. #
someone is filming an action sequence in my garage #
@kirbysayshi Can you show us a screenshot or two? We always love to see cloud analytics in action! #
@kirbysayshi I was trying it out but in Chrome can’t figure out where to drag the bookmarklet to #
Am I sleepy from lack of caffeine, allergies, burnout, or just sheer laziness? #
damn, they’re all STILL HERE – YouTube – After The Rapture  #

isn’t that the kind of disgusting immorality we should all join together in the spirit of the Bible to repudiate? #
@jamesaduncan At least eat well while you’re [in Milan] #
@vambenepe I someitimes want a Ctrl-Z in life. #
Religion is used by dishonest people who claim to know the way to the one thing humans want most: immortality.  #

“You cannot make Italians really progressive; they are too intelligent. Men who see the short cut to good living will never go by the new elaborate roads.” Shared on May 21st, 2011 from Kindle #

Wilfully unreconstructed, France is a society in which women collude in a continued phallocracy. #
willfully stupid:  As bad as it appears, have not found anything close to the faithfulness of Family Radio #
the best argument I know against an almighty, all-knowing God is the people who claim to know exactly what God intends. #

The Twitter Diaries: April 24-May 15, 2011

@ruperthowe Didn’t get to keep it. #
…and just to wrap it all up with a bow: New Videos: The Gregg Performance Series #
@smithnigelw <wince> Sorry about the wait, glad you finally got it! #DTrace #
@ryancnelson Do we have a location (we may have quite a bit of beer in Joyent fridges – haven’t looked lately) #
I just checked into Italian Wine Tasting & Pairing with Bertolli on Ustream. Come watch and chat with me here  #
leaving out the region I know best (Lombardia) but I also like Abruzzi wines  #
love Prosecco, and it goes with everything  #
Montepulciano d’Abruzzo seems to be becoming known in the US, seen it in wine shops & groceries ( #
No, said the old man, I’m waiting for this jerk to get up and do the right thing.  #
Italians live closer to the seasons than Americans do #
Old-Fashioned Italian Baby Names #
I’ll bet Prosecco and mango juice would make a good brunch drink. Must try that… #
Whoa. L can see smoke from a possible major fire on Folsom st #
…which explains the helicopters that have been hovering for a while #
Small things make me happy dept: new planters from Ikea  #


@DEVOPS_BORAT But it’s one helluva laptop. #
Well, at least I have proof that my kid can afford a keg of beer. I’ll take that as a good sign. #
thinking I’ll have to buy the LoTR blu-ray in June, tho that will require me to buy a blu-ray player… Need more Viggo in my life! #
@greenisus oh damn, that’s @LusciousPear ? Was semi-consciously wondering who that new face in my stream was. #
I wanted this to be played when Oracle bought Sun, but, alas, did not have occasion to indulge my theatrical instincts  #



.@Paypal apparently is not prepared for he fact that SOMETIMES PEOPLE MOVE TO A NEW COUNTRY #
Dear @paypal I JUST SELECTED to log in to the US site and speak English. This is not the time to force Italian upon me. #
@NomdeB Thanks – now I finally know what a fascinator is. #
my 24-hour allergy med has worn off after only 15 hours. Shoule I now take a 12-hr med? #
@edsai Yes, you need to stop that #
@JoyceSolano make your own, with fresh blood orange juice. Heaven! #
@trine sorry I missed that conversation #
@trine oh, wait your last night = my tonight, I did catch some of that #
@trine videoblogging turned into a major part of my career. I’m grateful for the many who helped and taught me along the way. #
@befreax I see it’s got good company. 😉 #dtrace #nodejs #win #
Woke up from a nightmare that might make a good conspiracy thriller movie, but was no fun to live through. #
he said that Americans loved life, whereas Muslims loved death – (NB I don’t think that applies to all Muslims) #
@rattay That’s what YOU say. #puppy #FB #
@bklein34 Mike’s nice too, but reserved. #Bears #
It’s okay to not like things – Digg  #

@pelegri check Amazon – due in June #
stocked the fridge with Guiness for tonight. That’s appropriate, right? #
@riccardo_iommi Today Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in this part of the world. 😉 #
http://bit.ly/lA3Sv0 three videos by @brendangregg about mpstat #
at Joyent 6 mos, in that time I’ve touched (one way or another) >50 pieces of video, adding up to ~30 hours of final edits. LOTS more to do. #
@elijahwright aww, thanks. But I did >400 pieces of video for Snorcle – lots of catching up to do! #
RT @hudsonette: New Paul Simon — The Afterlife |  via @youtube – gonna have to buy this one #

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Nice evening out with old and new friends, eating German food and drinking Czech beer to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. All-American! #
It may be crass to use cash to impress a girl than to wine, dine and gift her — but it’s arguably not any less moral. #
2nd time this wk email purporting to be from a friend stranded with no money. New wave of email account hacks?Yahoo.com & Yahoo.ca emails #
Added new ads to my personal blog (baby needs new shoes!), home now features amusing juxtaposition of beauty products and tech training #
@Schlomo You’ve been hoarding? #
@sintaxi you can thank @italylogue , Portlander who introduced me to it #jsconf #
@LusciousPear I have a friend who knows them well and recommended I apply there (back when I was looking). #
everybody loves me, baby, what’s the matter with you?Won’tcha tell me what did I do to offend you? #

music to spice up your Friday working hours: Rodrigo y Gabriela FTW! PotC4 (no, this is not Hans Zimmer alone) #

@flexrex Wasn’t a woman who wrote that. 😉 I found it a very interesting cross-cultural piece. Don’t currently have a strong opinion else #
@italylogue we have sunshine, but I still need a pick me up… #
@edsai tell them you’re that guy with black hair and purple shirts, not the other way around. #
First exposure to Katamari Damacy and all can say is – huh? #
It’s Saturday. I wish my body would learn to sleep in. #
@chrismevans But apparently they still got their chicks for free. #
@vdotw @nonstick @lskrocki I’ll be making strawberry and/or kiwi caipirinhas for tonight’s guests. #
We donated a 60million helicopter to this operation. Could we not afford to buy a tape measure? #
8 (!) years ago: Farewell to Buffy #
“I wish you could have been facing Dr. Tim as we singers were… I have never seen a human being so giving and focused” #
@ditucci Congratulations! #
A vane Osama bin Laden shown in new videos – excuse me, CBS? He was on top of a building indicating wind direction? #

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@SniperWulfzen Cool, looking forward. #
I guess the Sun-Oracle blog migration is happening #
So much for non-drowsy medication. #
@NickKristof Lord, spare me your Believers. #
My mother’s day indulgence (but I”ll do it other days, too): hot bath and home-mode sugar scrub. Catch is, I now have to clean the tub. #


First attempt at a strawberry Caipirinha. Not bad. #
@bubbva Good luck. At least it sounds as if it will clear up on its own. #
dammit, San Francisco, be warmer! #
@edsai Our cutest booth bunny 😉 #interop #joyent #
fingers crossed for Ross #
@NomdeB @riccardo_iommi it’s good news – job interview. #
Reminder-Joyent Webinar w/ KDDI Cloud as a Business with @jasonh on 5/17/11 at 10:00AM (PST). Learn more and sign up http://bit.ly/lE3gsQ #
@sh1mmer As director of training, I am very interested in your idea of pirate classes. Curriculum will be forthcoming? #
enjoying watching @maddow get her snark on at the GOP’s expense. It does not take a village, it takes a Boehner. Schadenfreude is fun. #
@alecmuffett Well said, sir. #
@alecmuffett V’ir yvxrq fbzr bs uvf rffnlf, ohg ur’f n ovg bs n juvare ba Gjvggre #
@sogrady wolcome back #
@edsai Ah, this is your fault for getting married during conference season. 😉 #
RT @Schlomo: My new endeavor is a sponsor of http://bit.ly/dviYaA You going to be there? – No, but probably some folks I know will be. #
quick experiment: cleaned up YouTube’s machine-generated captions to create good (English) subtitles – vmstat: Scope  #

Very proud of my daughter. The fruit really doesn’t fall far from the tree. 😉 #
RT @sintaxi: motherfuck! both Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player are restricted to the United States. – Dying from not-surprise. #
YouTube – WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN – Special Edition Recut  #

@rob_ellis umm… why? #
Feeling schizophrenic. And so am I. #
Well played, Dr Seelig – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart #
You’re gay, driver’s license denied – in Italy #
Its amazing how well society can work when you trust to common sense and civility instead of legislating everything #
52% of Silicon Valley start-ups launched by immigrants, many highly educated products of Stanford, Berkeley, others  #
Um thanks but I really don’t want to be the mayor…  #


@NomdeB @vdotw the also boughts are, um, unusual #
Well, apparently I am not going to get much done today. All systems decidedly NOT go. #
Hoisted a glass to a dear departed. Now I’m all maudlin. #
@GodlessAtheist It’s his heaven, not theirs. #athiesm #islam #
@jeffreytaylor He’d have a very good point. #
Some cultural practices such as genital mutilation or foot-binding or bride-burning are too brutish to defer to. #
Gingrich raised Lutheran, became Southern Baptist when he entered politics, converted to Catholic – call that faith?  #
@NomdeB Now there’s something a person can truly believe in. #
Ikea furniture doesn’t love me anymore. I have multiple injuries, and for the first time had to take something apart because I screwed it up #
@pborenstein No, but I managed. Had to. #
@jeffreytaylor Glad to be there for you #
saw them perform in Brisbane – too fun! – Jambezi, Australian Marimba Dance Band #

my own video of Jambezi #
going to have to switch to actual mouse and use it right handed – trackpad RSI is left hand #
@jscarp yes, when I remember to look at it #
@italylogue meet @cachafla , a colleague. He wants to know where to eat in Portland. What was the name of that Thai? #
@italylogue Dammit, now *I* want to come to Portland again! 😉 #
Who decided that showing slides and hearing a voice online is an effective way to learn? Personally, I learn from PEOPLE. With faces. #
Intel Cloud Builder Webinar featuring Joyent’s Bryan Cantrill on 5/19 at 11:00AM (PST). Learn more and sign up here  #
I call BS: who is Social Media Holdings and how can they claim copyright on a school orchestra playing (I think) Elgar?  #

YouTube apparently accepts dubious copyright claims from this mysterious entity – anyone know more? http://bit.ly/kAhbS3 #

And high schooler playing trombone disputed by the Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society. Official notification from YouTube. WTF? #
This may include content that is owned or administered by these UMPG Publishing Another school event. Classy, folks. #
@webmink Thanks, may do. I’m testing the YouTube dispute process, just because I’m stubborn. #
I’m tellin’ yo ass, yo – you blow! #
RT @ClusterTech: JOYENT & CLUSTERTECH ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE #
@vdotw @nonstick Although the photographed models used in HR training are often unintentionally hilarious… #
okay, that’s enough Ikea pounding and screwing for a while… #
@urbanturbanguy I’m pretty boring, really – my social life is mostly eating out or inviting friends in. #SanFrancisco #
@thepartycow Nah, not attracted to blonds. #
feeling homesick for Mussoorie #
@bubbva you’re on! #
RT @HumanityCritic: RT @Jason_Pollock: Wanna feel old? If they remade Back to the Future now, they would be traveling back to 1981. – AAGGHH #
Small living space = think 3x about buying stuff I won’t use often. A hand blender wd make baking easier, but I only bake ~every 2 months. #
Home improvements: minor ikea hack to create a tall dresser from 2 short ones #


@NomdeB Cool, will watch it. Tenzing’s son Gautam is in Bhadwaj’s latest, 7 Khoon Maaf, from a Ruskin Bond story. All in the family. #
@edsai Whatever that was, you apparently inhaled it #
@StopBeck Oh, Glenny. There are so many places that metaphor could go… #
@hemantmehta Italians worry about Friday the 17th. Hmm, I lived 17 years in Italy… #
@NomdeB lant time I tried to speak Hindi, problem seemed to be that my accent was far better than my vocab, so people wd chatter away… #
Umm… does Adobe not support Acrobat on the Mac anymore? Can’t find a try or even a buy. #
@fitzage I don’t see a Mac version on that page #
@fitzage cs5? #
@fitzage I need to trial Acrobat standard, not pro #
@pborenstein @fitzage So it would cost me 450 to Adobe to work around a dumb limitation in Confluence. Gah. #
apparently wasted 5 in the Mac app store on a pdf tool which does not even have standard cut-and-paste capability #
@RossellaLaeng you might want to follow FiatUSAhttp://twitter.com/#!/fiatusa #
@flexrex A bit more than that, thanks. We may have a solution… #
@tpenta No block, just a (probably bogus) copyright notice. I want to know whose rights are being infringed. Arranger? How cd they tell? #
@tpenta That’s a possibility, but at that poor sound quality, how cd they know? YouTube notice gives NO detail. #
I love to dance, but not to the kind of music they play in clubs… Dr Hook -You Make My Pants Want To Get Up And Dance  #

@ORCL_Infrared looking forward to seeing some Snorcle peeps there! #Dtrace #Solaris #
@anildash Yes! #binladenporntitles #
Friday afternoon, time to rock: LOS LONELY BOYS { SENORITA }  #

@jeffreytaylor Sweetie, you are going to Paris! Think of original brie, and cassis aperitifs. #
@jeffreytaylor I’d be right there with you… #
@jeffreytaylor When you get back you have to try the foie gras at Osha Thai – excellent. If you’re not sick of foie gras by then. #
Evening snack was toasted bread with Major Grey chutney and aged gouda. Just finishing off a half glass of zin to wash it down. #
I guess I’m allowed to brag now (and I’m gonna do it anyway): my daughter starts work on Monday… at Apple! #
@pborenstein yes, but on that score, a flight attendant job would have been more useful! #
I come from a short line of religious skeptics: The Hundred Years’ War #
@jeffreytaylor damn you and your biz class. No more showers at LHR for the plebs, that I can find. #
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@ebertchicago OMG they got Aishwarya Rai’s name wrong #
Habemus Papam – com’e’? Qualcuno l’ha gia’ visto? Mi sa’ che mi piacera’. #
Ok, that’s the first time I’ve seen an online clothing store where the models walk around. It’s a bit unnerving. myhabit.com #
Apparently there’s some mass athletic activity going on in SF today. I prefer less crowded forms of exercise. #
@NomdeB yes but the captioned seemed to think Rai is her first name! #
Traffic is a mess bc of Bay to Breakers, and weather about to get nasty. Good day to stay home. #
@postsecret it’s been that time for a long time. Are you marrying her or buying her? #
.@RickWarren What about the know it all theories in various sacred texts? All far less modest in scope than Freud, Marx or Darwin. #

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.

 

Deirdré Straughan on Italy, India, the Internet, the world, and now Australia