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yak shaving: Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

Your corporate culture and values... in 128 slides or less

Culture (2009) from Reed Hastings

Great truck art: is it coming or going?

Audi: not a car, but the birth of confidence

"Having data is not enough. You have to show it ways people enjoy and understand" - Hans Rosling

What are BOSH and BOSHDB

What is BOSHDB?

BOSHDB is a community-driven BOSH release repository

What is BOSH?

BOSH can be best described as a system to create and maintain large, complex distributed systems. Or small ones. Or somewhere in between. BOSH was created to deploy and manage Cloud Foundry, VMware's Platform-as-a-Service offering. At release though, it became a generic tool that's invaluable to those managing complex systems. It can deploy and manage everything from a single Apache server to, well, something as complex as Cloud Foundry.

This is a much better Hobbit song (from HISHE):

switch backside triple cork 1440

Puppet Labs Takes $30 Million VMware Investment!!!! http://readwrite.com/2013/01/25/puppet-labs-takes-30-million-vmware-investment-some-strings-attached

Beauty in tragedy

Source

MAKE. IT. STOP. PLEASE.

After watching this, I never want to own a 911

WTF? You have to take the rear bumper off to do any work on the engine, or replace the air filters? Thank you but NO!

Some cloud humor for your day

HP Offers 'That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About'

@daisy with the new 49ers Stadium, do you have to change your byline to "Daisy does Santa Clara"?

Back to the Future on the water in SF

Github now has 3 million users, which means 3 million people who can code. Can you? #DONTFEARCODE

OH: "If you want to go fast, go by yourself. If you want to go far, you need other people to join you on the journey". This holds true for cloud partnerships too!

"Glas" Foundry ?!

Reminds me of Depeche Mode's "Behind the Wheel"

I need a database that drops ACID like a BOSS

ACID is an acronym for:
• Atomicity: All parts of transaction complete or none complete
• Consistency: Only valid data written to database
• Isolation: Parallel transactions do not impact each other’s execution
• Durability: Once transaction committed, it remains

Skill with an iPhone? I wish I had some...

keyboard shortcuts explained

If you're into cats and apple products, this is why YOU NEED AN IPHONE 5

How to make Twitter interesting

Trust Fall: U R DOING IT WRONG

This is how "breaking bad" and "the wire" win over audiences: hypnosis

Guys Night. It's time to have one of these

And then this happened: "Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life on the surface"

This had to be done.

The future is all about "apps" and that which accelerates app development/deployment

The future is all about "apps"... and under those apps, are the tools and platforms that enable businesses and developers to quickly turn ideas into prototypes into product. 

The future of apps is PaaS - platforms upon which applications can be quickly built, scaled and managed.