Lori MacVittie - FriendFeed

Dear @ reply spammer: You know it's the avatar that gives you away, don't you? I was born at night but not last night. Kthxbai.

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@Archimedius Blast it. I forgot to post that one on http://www.infra20.com too #infra20. My bad. Long week. :-(

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@scottsanchez That's certainly a valid answer ;-)

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@omarsultan Or they're tired of stating the obvious! :-) EIther way, I'm glad to see it.

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RT @madgreek65: Data services may help address a major SOA unknown -- data quality http://blogs.zdnet.com/service... < Great post!

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@omarsultan Thanks! I am too - and very surprised there's no "you're an idiot" type responses. ::fingers crossed::

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@wendyperilli IT's weird the skills you start to lose when you don't use them often. It feels so ... odd now. :-)

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Wow. In 1995 ODBC via Internet was a problem. Nearly 15 years later? Bueller? Bueller? http://www.networkcomputing.com/613...

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RT @quine: Target: compromised. Time to go home. << This is a very scary tweet.

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@jclouds @David_67 Ahhh... Okay, gotcha. Thanks! #aws #rds

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@jeffbarr I thought I read/heard there was a REST based interface to RDS but only find the SOAP interface. No REST?

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ANd a good comment indeed from @bmichelson on the subject. Discount power can be a powerful thing.

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@bmichelson Envelopes and stamps would be the least of your worries. I'd have to relearn how to write with a PEN! OMG!

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@csoandy Almost all medical statistics are fatally flawed because of the disparity in variables and lack of complete data.

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@mfratto Very broad. Depends on what/where we're talking about standardization, right? Some levels make more sense than others.

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@vTrooper Wow. That's actually unusual. Usually F5 is "that load balancing" company. ;-) Hmm..thinking about this one.

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@mfratto LOL. Excellent comment. so in an early market is part of fear of "lock-in" that untried vendors won't support stds as they emerge?

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@csoandy True, but the integration of comments results in it being user-generated content... But I do see your point.

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@mfratto And that changes the point how? aPhone or iPhone. Apple or BB. Both successful. Both proprietary/locked-in solutions.

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@nselby Thanks and yeah...that's the hard part, isn't it? Too often it revolves around "run my software". Need to teach basics, I think...

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New post: Is Vendor Lock-In Really a Bad Thing?: When you look at the success of some very proprietary solutions an... http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs...

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Is Vendor Lock-In Really a Bad Thing? - http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs...

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Is Vendor Lock-In Really a Bad Thing? - http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs...

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Good Friday Morning! Woot! It's FRIIIIIIIIIDAAAAAAAAAAAYY!

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Amazon to expand to APAC in 2010 http://www.techflash.com/seattle...

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RT @dmacvittie: RT @geekgrrl: Oh Em GEE! #WANT RT @leighhollowell: http://twitpic.com/p9mzv - best clipboard EVAR < Ohhh! Me want too! < I 2

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@armorguy LOL. Okay, now that one was funny. ;-)

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I am going to sum up @DavidLinthicum post on App Design Guide for #cloud http://www.infoworld.com/d... "Do what you do now, but do it better" :-)

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@AceSage Ha! Sorry - you have entered the black hole known as ORD. All bets are off. #aa

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According to Forbes, I work for the 36th Best "top performing, publicly held up-and-comers" there is! http://www.forbes.com/lists...

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