Definition: When the amount of social media that everyone expects you to consume with a myriad of different, incompatible, and often annoying apps, absorbs so much of your time that your productivity drops … you decide that in the interests of your own personal sanity, you will spend more time with your family, your dog, and your friends, than dealing with {facebook,twitter,linkedin,RANDOM_SOCIAL_MEDIA_NAME} streams which steal time from the important things in life.

… whereby when I have the least time to spend on a particular task, there is an ordering of requests that I maximize the time spent on that task using the least efficient mechanisms possible. Put another way, when I am busy, more people seek more of my time to handle things that I shouldn’t need to be involved in. Or another way … simple things should be trivial, complex things possible, and yet the universe appears to arrange it self so that simple things become complex, and complex things become impossible.

For the day job. They are … well … pretty nice. What is siCloud you might ask? Well, think a very … very fast storage and computing cloud, leveraging many technologies we’ve developed. You will be hearing more about this soon. And I’ll show some numbers and pictures in another post. But before I get them up, anyone want to hazard a guess on the aggregate bandwidth and IOP rate for this system?

Have an order which is absorbing all of my cycles, and this is coupled with a nice springtime cold, and an elbow injury. Now if my dog bites me, my month will be complete. Will start posting soon, once I get the the burn-in running. To give you a sense of the size of this order, we are installing additional power and AC capacity in our lab (its happening now). We just asked our landlord if they have a larger space in this complex (its built into our lease, as we weren’t sure of our growth rates), and they really don’t have anything we can use, so we might just suffer here for another year, and build up capacity in NJ.

Looking forward to this. Our booth is smaller, but in a higher traffic area. We have 2 systems with us, a siFlash and a 60 bay JackRabbit. And we are putting together a small get-together after the show. This should be fun. I am looking forward to it. I’ll try to tweet from the show floor.

Watching the slow motion train wreck in Cyprus made me wonder exactly whom the target of the money grab was. And more importatly, whether or not the people making demands had any clue that their victory was, at best, Pyrrhic, and at worst, a serious contagion. Any financial system in operation is built upon various levels of trust, implicitly in the case of the least risky capital storage system. You know that you can trust, within reasonable expectations and parameters, that capital that you deposit there can be retrieved later.

Its called “fractured bone spur tip of olecranon”. It means I’ve got a broken bone in my elbow area. My arm is in a sling and immobilized. Got it while sparring at a karate tournament. Landed hard on my elbow due to a slippery floor. Of course its my right arm, the one I write with. I am typing this with one hand, using the hunt and pick method. Seriously need voice IO for machines.

Long ago I pondered Projects, inherently, are un-finished entities. There are missing things. There are “un-implemented features” which would be necessary for a product. Like say, an on-off switch, among other things. Products are inherently compromises between design, realities of implementation costs/schedules/complexities, etc. Software developers often get into the endless cycle of tweaking features and improving systems so that they miss target dates. We see this with larger scale projects as well, unless someone adopts the iron-fist rule on adding/tweaking versus shipping/learning/improving $version++.

No, thats unfair to things that are truly terrible. It sets a low mark … a really … really … low mark. Trying to help a relative with adding a printer. A printer that happily works under windows 7. No issues, just works. Works under Linux on my laptop here. Nothing special, just works. But windows 8? Oh … no … it … doesn’t. Drivers (the built in ones we are told to use) don’t work.

… the guy driving the car rental bus recognizes you and talks about how often you’ve been there.