The End of Private Cloud – 5 Stages of Loss and Grief ← There never was a private cloud, just a private mirage.
Heading to Parsippany to spend rest of week with Rob Krystyniak and rest of #teamsps.
Resuming my Marklin Z-Scale model train layout project with the kids.
Any outstanding wagers on how long until Microsoft Office for Mac support full-screen mode? My money is on never. 😕
Not being able to see free/busy times when scheduling from iOS is a real annoyance.
I’m sort of embarrassed by how sloppy my filesystem has gotten in some areas. I blame the cloud.
procps security updates cause rkhunter warnings that give pause.
Layne Kennedy's Light Over Iceland
Photographer and friend Layne Kennedy just put together this great book combining a ton of images he’s taken in Iceland over the years, many of them were on the trip that I took with Layne, Steve LeVahn and Dennys Bisogno. His photos are amazing! This book is a great walk through that wonderful place.
LIGHT OVER ICELAND by Layne Kennedy
I got special thanks on page 83 for the green laser I brought over with me. You can see my Iceland photos on my photography site.
Burroughs Fundraiser for Mazie’s school. Fun event!
Live auction time. Be careful about raising hand for photo. 😀
Daft Punk “Get Lucky” good Burroughs fundraiser tonight.
Fun to finally meet Donnie Berkholz, fittingly at the airport. Looking forward to connecting again soon!
AWS re:Invent - Day 2
Great seats for day 2 AWS re:Invent keynote by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.
The kerning on the ’ in the AWS re:Invent font could use some help.
Amazon releases RDS for PostgreSQL today! Nice!
Great to watch Werner giving AWS re:Invent keynote.
Wow. New i2 instances are crazy. New c3 instances = super computer on demand. EC2 spot market is revolutionary. Allows a model that has never been available before.
Amazon Kinesis for managing streaming data. This looks very interesting. I think Amazon Kinesis just revamped a project #TeamSPS is starting right now. Awesome. This Kinesis demo has awesome visuals. AWS Kinesis looks huge.
Werner Vogels sporting Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt now. Nirvana this morning. My guess is for tonight shirt? Foo Fighters.
Attending the Kinesis introduction session at AWS re:Invent. Kinesis for stock market data seems like such an awesome fit. I’m guessing Stephen Orban and Dow Jones are already testing. 😀 Kinesis streams != Queues.
Saying goodbye to AWS re:Invent and heading home. Really happy I came. Fun things ahead for #TeamSPS!
A giant frog is singing over an artificial waterfall. Only in Vegas.
Seriously, this should be illegal. This from the Wynn in Las Vegas.
The use of this service is $13.99 for 24 hours and will be billed to your room. Guests paying our daily resort fee will automatically have their internet charges removed from the final bill.
And no, I did not pay the fee.
AWS re:Invent - Day 1
Ready for AWS re:Invent!
Perhaps the largest dining hall ever. AWS re:Invent
Great seat for AWS re:Invent keynote.
Rob Krystyniak, @maas_8128,@zwingocom, @LukeSamaha, @scottbjer, and @pixelsnbits 👍 #TeamSPS ready for AWS re:Invent keynote!
“we are finally data center free!” quote from AWS re:Invent
9,000 attendees from 57 countries. AWS re:Invent
Amazon Workspaces. Huh.
Great to see former colleagues at Dow Jones getting highlighted at AWS re:Invent! Congrats all!
Amazon AppStream looks interesting.
Tradeworx segment of #awsreinvent keynote is mind blowing.
Terabyte of data added a day to S3.
This graph shows the power of AWS.
Attending Big Data: State of the Union session by Paul Duffy at AWS re:Invent.
Morning keynote at AWS re:Invent was great. Hit right topics. Expanded thinking.
Crap. Phone is at 12% battery already! Argh.
Love the Amazon Public Datasets and Big Open Data effort. Great stuff.
You could make a lot of $$$ selling precharged battery packs for phones at #awsreinvent.
I don’t know what’s more impressive: AWS scaling or the dining service feeding 9,000 people.
Pro tip for those in #awsreinvent dining hangar and trying to find people. The pillars have numbers.
At session about Amazon Redshift at #awsreinvent with Rob Krystyniak.
Going to Netflix Development Patterns for Rapid Iteration, Scale, Performance & Availability session at AWS re:Invent next.
Someone should make a twitter client optimized for conferences.
Netflix red, black and blue systems concept is very smart. Did something similar at Dow Jones but no blue concept.
I think it might finally be time to move all my personal web stuff to AWS.
Guys in suit coats playing ping pong at #awsreinvent Dev Lounge.
Fun running into @jondahl at AWS re:Invent!
AWS re:Invent - Day 0
Looking forward to joining other #teamsps folks at AWS re:Invent!
I’m not sure why, but I always find it a little sad to fly out at night.
AWS re:Invent iOS app could use some help. 😕 just not as useful as it should be.
Installing English → Russian dictionaries on my iPhone for trip to Kharkiv, Ukraine in a couple of weeks.
Need Dogwood Coffee beans. Stop at Urban Bean Coffee. Get a delicious macchiato. Repeat as needed.
PSA: Don’t let a wonderful Minnesota fall go by without giving Hüsker Dü or The Replacements a listen. This is what they were made for!
Person at SuperAmerica gave me free air for my tires when I asked for quarters. That’s nice.