Brandon Titus

Ah, Under the Tuscan Sun. Loved that movie and yes, makes me love Italy more. - Trish R

i would love to Winter in Tuscany with Diane Lane* ;)) - Billy Warhol

ISS just flew over. I wasn't expecting it, but the darn thing is so big and bright you immediately know what you're seeing. Passed high and to my southwest before winking out right next to Jupiter. - Chris Baskind via Bookmarklet

Wish I could take a nap right now. - Brandon Titus

if this isn't accurate, then Im going to spend the rest of the day laughing based on the amount of intrigue and non traceability put in place from the source. However, it's a good source, it's not an outlandish claim, and I'm betting that it's exactly what we've written up. - Duncan Riley

Wow. I pretty much got told by Apple. Guess they can invite people to events however far in advance they see fit. - Brandon Titus

@Erica You might be right, though I suspect that they'd rather swap out a part than replace the entire thing each time (even if it's replaced more often than a regular MacBook). - flammable

"You might have noticed that iPhone applications like Mail or Contacts seem to load "instantly", while other apps (3rd party don't). Here's the secret: it has been determined that Apple is using a screen shot of the last known state of an application as a "splash screen" for the next reload" - clarke thomas via Bookmarklet

Thanks Jeremy Toeman for suggesting this website on his blog. http://jeremytoeman.com/why-im... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Scary...even more scarier to see him as the big boss - Gordon Swaby

Yes Gordon... That is scary... :D - AJ Batac ♘

Wow, he back-handed a lady. - Rodfather

One of my favorites. I had a flag like this. - Brandon Titus

I may go and buy more of these stickers at Margaritaville , before I go home - johnpiercy

"A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

While this is a tragedy I am unclear how Obama is supposed to be a factor in race relations in London. Is he really supposed to be a messianic figure on that level now? "I can't be racist anymore, the USA has a black president!" isn't really going to happen. The violently hate filled idiots hate for internal reasons and external forces rarely change them. - Soulhuntre

Uh, there may be more to this... - eggsy

Why would anyone in London give a shit enough to shoot someone? That is ridiculous. Not to mention I thought they had some pretty hardcore gun control over there. Obviously this person was up to no good before an Obama shirt was involved. I am not being Anti or Pro anything here. - Not Not Geoff Schultz

"When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Is this for real? - Jamelle

Two problems with this gadget, a) I want to make it trigger on every email, but after you solve the problems successfully, there's a window during which you can send more outgoing emails unchallenged; b) even at max difficulty level 5 the problems take only 15 seconds to solve sober - it seems unlikely that they'd take more than twice as long to solve when drunk - though I will have to verify that experimentally, I guess. - ƃuɐʞ

PC are more productive, new feature from Windows Vista. - Andrew Trinh

Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich is building a $400 million mega-yacht. Yawn, you say? You have two? OK, well, this yacht has its own submarine. And armor plating with bulletproof glass. And little boats that fit inside the bigger boat. And a frickin' missile defense system that will alert he and his crew of 70 former SAS soldiers that there be pirates in those waters. It should be noted that Abramovich's other yachts—the 377 ft. Pelorus, 282ft Ecstasea and 160ft Sussurro—all pale in comparison to the 550 ft. Eclipse, and do not include missile detection systems. You can never be too safe, right? - Morgan

Very handy collection of QuickLook generator plugins. BetterZip and TextMate integration is great! - Chris Messina via Mento

Hmmm. An ex genius I know said he made like $12 uncertified and 14 w/certification. - Brandon Titus

I remember these haha do you have the other ones? - Andrew Trinh

I know of one other, it's here: http://tinyurl.com/6mlua - xero

Ahahaha, haven't seen that one. - Mladen Srdić

I loved these, I think there was one more haha. - Andrew Trinh

Is this the Rochester event? - Paul Buchheit

We were at Mendon Ponds Park, specifically the Cobblestone house in the park. Its about 15 minutes from where I grew up (and where my parents still are) Bloomfield, NY. Basically right at the beginning of the fingerlakes. And thank you everyone!! - Rachel L Fox

Man....getting married twice is cheating! I shoulda thought of that! And heck, if I'd known I'd get to wear my dress again, I might have had to rethink my travel plans! Glad you guys are having such a great time! - Alessandra Novak

finally... - Brandon via Bookmarklet

i highly recommend the 1967 version of "Bedazzled" (with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore) if you are looking for something to Watch Instantly - Karim

Wait. Is it really out now or is this blog just restating the announcement that it will be "out by the end of the year" - Brandon Titus

I just tried on a MacBook. It's not working yet. - Rodfather

I'm surprised the blade number isn't even higher. We started deploying blades at the end of 2004 and never looked back. I would say we are closer to 50% blades, 25% virtual, and 25% standard rack servers in the data center. Now that there are dual and quad quad core blades, power 6 blades and quad 6 core servers for virtualization I would expect our blade and virtual numbers to increase at the expense of the standard racked server. When you have thousands of servers it really does make a huge difference in physical footprint. Thanks for sharing the article. - Michael Pardee

the increase in virtualization is a no-brainer. not sure about blades. as for linux, the question is projected 8% "adoption rate" at the expense of what -- are they eating market share out of some other OS (e.g. Solaris) or just growing? - Karim

@Louis Gray, we use polyserve and are extremely happy with it. Finally a distributed lock manager fir windows. Why MS didn't listen to DEC all those years ago about this I'll never understand. No more spending time trying to tune pagepool, etc. The only flaw we have found so far is the time it takes for the entire env to recover if you lose a node varies on how large you make your poly cluster. Since we centralize as much as possible in the DC we can't afford outages and polyserve has brought us a level of availability that windows clustering will never match as long as it is totally dependent on a simple heartbeat. We rarely lose the heartbeat and almost always lose rpc communication so we had to manually get windows clusters back online anyway. They are fine for hardware failover, planned maint, and rolling upgrades, but we're all about performance and availability and we had to go to polyserve to get there. - Michael Pardee

"* If you can’t find some obvious command, like Delete in a photo program, try clicking using the right-side mouse button. (On the Mac, you can Control-click instead.)" - edythe via Bookmarklet

at first i thought, jeesh, this is pretty basic and just for moms and dads. But i often see my coworkers--people in their 20s, 30s--working slowly and inefficiently on a computer because they don't know what i consider to be basic shortcuts. - edythe

I missed the debates last night. This visualization is a great way to watch it after the fact. - Alan Le

I didn't get to watch it all, so this is a great resource. Thanks for posting it. - James Williams (willia4)

This is a great site! - Aaron Krug

Very cool. - Jordan Hofker

Hahahahaah - J. Abdul-Qahhar

#2 is the best :D - Brandon

"Unfortunately, people from your past are looking for you. People you had hoped would stay forgotten. And your internet listing has made it very easy for them to find you. - jfayel