few more cents

Wondering, how would longest tweet in history look like?

Bite on this http://twitter.com/taylorbuley/status/2554264719

Cool hack, Taylor. Find more info on how he did it here.

As they say, getting it right is expensive, getting it fast is cheap. One more instance of leading bloggers not caring for the validity of the news.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/once-again-twitter-trending-topics-polluted-by-spam/

Mike, Mrs. Slocombe’s pussy is not impressed!

The Agenda was -

• Virtualization, an alternative IT environment
• High Availability – Always on Technologies in SQL Server 2008
• An introduction to Cloud Computing – Azure services

Nischay spoke on Virtualization. It was all about Hyper-v & a bit on how System center of win server 2008 would help in virtualizing Profile, Application, Desktop & Presentation. I was more interested in Desktop virtualization, which Hyper-v fares badly when compared to Vmware Workstation which pretty much supports every OS on earth. Find out comparison sheet here.

Next session was on SQL Server 2008 by Amit. It was a brilliant presentation. He knew very well what he spoke & did demonstrate hands-on. He presented stuff on Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, Database Snapshots etc..

Following sumptuous meal was the session on Azure by Tulika. This was the session for which I was there for. As it says in the agenda it was just an intro & nothing interesting turned out of the presentation.

The event also had a lab to check out the technologies discussed.

Give away, also included a cool 2GB thumb drive. Thanks Microsoft!

I bet you cannot get more innovative. Watch this ad for Samsung LED. This is my second post referring to Samsung’s marketing initiatives. The first one was building superfast computer with their SSDs.

Check this video from Samsung guys.

Google is super intelligent, so should Youtube be. Google has the most sophisticated algorithms on earth. Lets see.. One of friend forwarded me the links to “Battle At Kruger” video. Quite impressive. I just followed the related video links suggested by Youtube & landed here. Well, the video is on “Buffalo vs. Lion”. The interesting part is the related videos recommendation for this video. How is a “Buffalo vs. Lion” video related to “Chicks giving Blowjob”? You be the judge.

This is the link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BtMuSjnGcY

Below are the screen shots that I managed to take. I tried the link with several pcs in our office, got the same recommendation. So, dared to post this blog.

Click on the pic, to see full image.

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Blow after blow for google. First marking the whole web as malicious & now gmail outage. I remember this quote from a movie: “You find out how much you love some one, only when you loose them”. I experienced this in both cases – unavailability of google search & gmail outage. Finally they have found what triggered the very news making outage. The root cause of the problem was a software bug that caused an unexpected service disruption during the course of a routine maintenance event. Want to know in detail what went wrong… refer to this postmortem report.

What happens to the 99.9% SLA for Google Apps? Well the subscribers get a 15 day extension of the service as a compensation. Not bad Google!

What does credit crunch mean? Well.. any rotting dictionary would help you find it. But what is the reason for current Credit Crunch? Sub prime… Non Performing Collaterals… fed’s policies… liquidity crisis… CDOs… ARMs… WTF? Any article helping you understand the reason for current credit crunch will pound your ears with these jargons. I bet you’ll loose your interest before you get even one of these concepts clear. Isn’t there a single soul on earth to explain this in layman’s terms? Well, seems that someone has heard you. I found this video on credit crunch. The creator has super simplified the content. After seeing this video, even my granny started an eloquent rhetoric on the crunch with her pals.

All credit goes to the creator of the video. Awesome job mate!

WTF, google screwed big time.