Summer & winter, same season. Few venture outdoors. Most stay inside, rely on HVAC 4 life support, moan nonstop. So humid U could shovel it. about 6 hours ago via txt
No, I don't suppose any advanced analytics vendors will take me up on suggested marketing pitch: "We make math as addictive as meth." #Enzeeabout 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
Many great laugh-out-loud lines from "Toy Story 3." Such as the Ken doll defending his manliness: "I'M NOT A GIRLS TOY!!!!!" about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
Everybody else was distracted by World Cup soccer action behind me at yesterday's #Enzee. I was distracted by pretty female fans in stands. about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
Earthquake in Ottawa? In one of our most favorite placid Canadian cities? Tell me this is a put-on, please. I count on Canada to stay calm. about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck
Twitter in its sheer ever-gushing too-muchness simply illustrates that life is a complex event stream. Don't process it. Just roll with it. about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck
Expect predominantly non-work-related tweets from me till after July 4. Novel concept that we in US like to call "vacation." about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck
Saw "Toy Story 3." Superbly entertaining film. On the fun meter, it rates well beyond infinity. about 20 hours ago via txt
President Obama's firing of McChrystal was right thing to do. Generals who publicly disrespect civilian leaders have it coming to them. 1,277,329,547,000.00 via txt
I connected SNA to in-db analytics for Netezza #Enzee, wrapped it in pred process platform, & oriented toward nxt bst ofr for #CRM. Cool eh? 1,277,329,391,000.00 via txt
Privacy protection is laudable concern. Focus of many public advocacy groups. Operational concern of #DW pros? File under "data stewardship" 1,277,328,894,000.00 via txt
Still replaying Sleigh Bells' awesome debut LP. Feels like fresh Fat Boy Slim with a phatter crunch-rock repetitive rolling synth attack. 1,277,328,155,000.00 via txt
PA/DM vendors who took issue w/ my core Wave crit weren't thinking far enough ahead. I did the analysis/synthesis. Prescient? More to come. 1,277,327,986,000.00 via txt
With analytics industry shift, many will read my #Forrester PA/DM Wave more deeply. Start with Model Dev/Val crit: multiscen, C-BO, SNA, etc 1,277,327,693,000.00 via txt
It's clear now that the agenda in #BI world has now subtly shifted toward predictive analysis. IT budgets will drive & follow. So will M&A. 1,277,327,428,000.00 via txt
I would be no more inclined to adopt personal- or job-only Twitter handle than limit face2face chats to one subj domain. I'm all/always 360. 1,277,325,604,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Hearing @CurtMonash. "SQL tasting"? Huh? Is well-written SQL like wine? Get better with age? Don't chug-a-lug that jug bro! 1,277,323,903,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. SVP D. Flaxman says one unnamed customer has petabyte of data on TwinFin 120. First PB-scale Netezza deploy I've heard of. 1,277,323,861,000.00 via txt
Interviewed by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise on #SAS in-memory grid analytics announcement. 1,277,317,589,000.00 via txt
All right & fitting that only in Boston, the most sports-mad city in US, do I have to share an IT conf mainstage with some sporting event. 1,277,316,925,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Wow, great one! Let's drive advanced predictive analytics into biz processes. 1,277,310,487,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. I go on in just a moment. Competing with World Cup. Unfair fight. I can kick their collective intellectual tail. 1,277,306,548,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. You all have my permission to refer to "unstructured data" anytime you wish. I'd be personally disappointed if you didn't. 1,277,297,442,000.00 via web
Prepping for my 11:15-11:45am (EDT) preso on social network analysis at Netezza #Enzee. By "prepping" I mean "already prepped." 1,277,297,314,000.00 via TweetDeck
World's problems tend to sprawl mischievously across siloes. Stretching grain of your thought across siloes facilitates hybrid solutions. 1,277,296,490,000.00 via txt
Read McChrystal & staff remarks to mag. Expected strategy-related comments. What I see is just immature trash talk. To reporter? They nuts? 1,277,295,540,000.00 via txt
Economy OK. Bailout monies well on way to repayment. Stimulus $ a distant memory. New financial regs coming. Crisis averted. We survived. 1,277,295,522,000.00 via txt
SinnerMan,wher U gona run 2? U run 2 de sea, de sea wasa boiling,all the long day,U run 2 de rock, the rock wasa meltin,Wher U gona run 2? 1,277,260,440,000.00 via TweetDeck
Yes, it was a long day. But technically that's cuz it was day after summer solstice. Don't pester me with technicalities. I'm an IT analyst! 1,277,258,073,000.00 via TweetDeck
A WARHOL HIKOO: The unswerving gaze/of nervy Andy was a/fixed focus fetish. 1,277,256,146,000.00 via txt
This is one of only a handful of tweets today where I didn't use the #Enzee hashtag. Oh wait (damn!), forget what I said. 1,277,244,027,000.00 via TweetDeck
Actually, the amount I tweet in a given week has everything to do with volume of actual news in that week. #Enzee is deep news feed! 1,277,241,094,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco sez they'll partner w/ established data integration vendors to deliver promised appliances. Won't build own ETLT. 1,277,241,016,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco sez hi-dense hi-cap "Cruiser" archiving/DR/BAR appliance will have one-third to one-quarter query speed of TwinFin 1,277,240,953,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. Refreshinig lack of chest-beating "we're faster" competitive DW appliance benchmarks. Or disappointing. Depends on your POV 1,277,240,764,000.00 via TweetDeck
Hmmm...I've generated 94 tweets so far today from & around #Enzee. That includes my few off-topics. Hopefully, you're enjoying it all. 1,277,240,585,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: technology areas: rotational disk declining in importance: SSD on the rise: price-perf improves rapidly 1,277,240,325,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: technology areas: solid state vs. rotational disk storage trends: evolution of SSD & flash 1,277,240,281,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: Unified Info Access Appliance #Attivio. Content mgt & digital asset mgt repos. 80% enterprise info non-relational 1,277,240,241,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: Data Integration Appliance (ETLT, DQ, cleansing, xform, in-db), Marketing Automation Appliance 1,277,240,143,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: marketing optimization appliances: drive marketing campaigns with adv analytics 1,277,240,107,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: hosted apps or pre-built appliances for specific purposes: "data integration appliance" tied to TwinFin-like sys 1,277,240,075,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: "Mantra2": monitor more hetero DBs, more events w/ long-term storage ("Mantra Vault") in TwinFin/Cruiser 1,277,240,042,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: replication server for continuous access and support load-balancing cross-TwinFin nodes 1,277,239,891,000.00 via TweetDeck
My tweet rate tends to spike during industry events in my core coverage area--as is fairly obvious. 1,277,239,850,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: unified enterprise platform: data replication, unified audit compliance security, unified cross-Nz-platform mgt 1,277,239,797,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: extending i-Class SDK: lang (perl, C#, .NET,etc), PMML) open source linear solvers for optimization 1,277,239,747,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee "distribution-aware query processing": optimize query against single S-blade for very narrow data set (e.g., single customer) 1,277,239,229,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco: Focusing on supporting "micro-analytics" for operational BI decision support w/ very-low-latency tricklefeeds 1,277,239,072,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco "Cruiser" appliance: 4 S-blades per appliance, 12 disk arrays, each 12 2-TB serial-att SCSI load up to 10-TB hour 1,277,238,961,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Francisco discussing yr-end plans for "Cruiser" hi-density hi-cap (10-PB) lo-cost archival/BAR/DR/multi-temp appliance. 1,277,238,874,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Nsight: higher (industry apps), deeper (advanced analytics), unified (platform) with hi-cap hi-perf, scalable, wkld mgt 1,277,238,583,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee announcements mostly incl partners: Composite, Fuzzy Logix, EnterpriseDB, Attivio. Even i-Class has strong prtnr orientat'n 1,277,237,932,000.00 via TweetDeck
Carbohydrates. I've got nothing against carbs. It's those hydrates I can't stand. Well, for starters, they get lodged between my teeth. 1,277,236,547,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Session over. Still sitting here. I'm listening to Wilco & Billy Bragg doing "California Stars" on PA w/Marryanne #Attivio. 1,277,235,248,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee#Attivio on "unified info access appliance.” JK--Paves way for full "enterprise content warehouse." New paradigm a-birthin' 1,277,233,952,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee#Attivio on "unified info access appliance.” All content retained in appliance. Powerful semantic search. Not yet available. 1,277,233,856,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee discussion with partner #Attivio on "unified info access appliance. Extract entities, concepts, classifications, sentiment. 1,277,233,715,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. TwinFin i-Class. Hadoop-compatible MapReduce class hierarchy. Planned HDFS-Netezza bidirectional connector. 1,277,231,835,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. TwinFin i-Class. MapReduce Hadoop support. Liberal definition of "key-value pair." 1,277,231,766,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. TwinFin i-Class user-defined analytical processes. More than UDF. Multi-language. Execute independently. Rich metadata. 1,277,231,432,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Deep dive on i-Class adv analytic architecture. Packed room. I guesstimate 300 people paying rapt post-lunch attention. 1,277,231,156,000.00 via txt
RT @Staten7 @jayfry3: "Nick Carr’s “Shallows” book on how the Internet hurts our brains" JK--DNS causes migraines. TCP/IP a known carcinogen 1,277,230,347,000.00 via TweetDeck
Would be tragic if alphabet dropped longtime sponsorship of Sesame Street. Can't imagine raising kids to read & write in hieroglyphics. 1,277,230,113,000.00 via TweetDeck
Descartes' radical egoism: "I think therefore I am." Didn't make leap to radical egotism: "I think I am, therefore you better believe I am" 1,277,229,199,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. i-Class/TwinFin: Capacity crowd in this large conference room. People standing along walls and back. Huge customer interest 1,277,222,331,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. i-Class/TwinFin: Chambers discussing what's bundled into i-Class, vs. what functions are premium add-ons. 1,277,222,223,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. i-Class/TwinFin: "Analytics without constraints": scalable perf, appliance simplicity, MPP analytics, flexibility. 1,277,222,126,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. i-Class/TwinFin: SAS/Access connectors & SAS Scoring Accelerator. In #SAS EM, auto-gen SQL & UDF for scoring in TwinFin 1,277,222,035,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. i-Class/TwinFin: nzAnalytics Starter Kit w/ high-perf scalable data prep, data mining, & pred analytics functions out of box 1,277,221,839,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. i-Class/TwinFin: user-def analytic proc in any suppted lang; run independent of DB; run longer than query; in protected mode 1,277,221,758,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. i-Class/TwinFin: in-db analytic libs: NZ (data prep, data mining, pred an, spatial), open source (R, sci analysis), custom 1,277,221,481,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. Forthcoming Netezza i-Class (on TwinFin) with deep, extensible stat library for adv analytics. Michelle Chambers speaking. 1,277,220,881,000.00 via TweetDeck
RT @sandsP "similar discussions here at IDC biz analytics conf" JK--Widespread recognition that predictive muscle sustains strong businesses 1,277,220,576,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee This event is evangelizing in-db advanced analytics to broad biz market. Netezza's strategic focus means DW game is changing 1,277,220,331,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee session on advanced analytics & NZ i-Class. "Why is advanced analytics not more widely adopted?" JK--Steep learning curve. 1,277,220,181,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. I'm excited re Pursway for SNA & Attivio for unstr info on TwinFin. When will NZ partner ship soc media analytics appliance? 1,277,217,440,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee leveraging partnerships very shrewdly to build solution portfolio. Composite for Virtualizer, Enterprise for Migrator, etc. 1,277,217,141,000.00 via txt
Enterprise-grade DW platform needs strong fed/virtualization layer, because very few analytics environments are or will be 100% centralized. 1,277,216,679,000.00 via txt
#Enzee session on new #Netezza Virtualizer. GA Q3 from Netezza. Hetero federation of NZ & non-NZ. Existing Composite licensees can access. 1,277,216,487,000.00 via txt
#Enzee session on new #Netezza Virtualizer. Excellent demo, packed room, strong interest. Showing distrib federated joins, inserts & queries 1,277,216,266,000.00 via txt
#Enzee session on new #Netezza Virtualizer. This vendor is differentiating in #EDW thru full-blooded federation, with partner Composite. 1,277,215,980,000.00 via txt
Predictive analytics panel at #Enzee#BBBT. Challenges & pitfalls facing companies? JK sez develop cadre of smart business analyst modelers 1,277,214,496,000.00 via TweetDeck
Predictive analytics panel at #Enzee#BBBT. Predictive analytics at e-Harmony: predicting compatibility along how many dimensions? 1,277,213,122,000.00 via TweetDeck
Predictive analytics panel at #Enzee#BBBT. Apps (cont.): crime prevention with geospatial analytics. JK--Call that interdictive analytics. 1,277,212,740,000.00 via TweetDeck
LIstening to predictive analytics panel at #Enzee. They're defining the term, differentiating from data mining and core BI. 1,277,212,370,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. I'm waiting to see if they have plans for incorporation of columnar, in-memory, all-SSD, and cloud. 1,277,203,895,000.00 via TweetDeck
Turn on TV, Montel telling tale of lady "who got ripped off, her story's not too typical, but it's all that real." Thanks for wake-up alarm! 1,277,203,034,000.00 via TweetDeck
A high-performance tweetie has one arch-nemesis: an even higher-performance putty-tat. I did, I did taw dat putty-tat! 1,277,169,882,000.00 via TweetDeck
Math geeks occasionally do the math. Not to get a good grade. But to scratch a numerical itch. 1,277,169,788,000.00 via TweetDeck
On a good week I'm well over 200 tweets per week...works out to I'm 10x the average output. 1,277,169,702,000.00 via TweetDeck
I follow 1,692 tweeters, who produced 87 tweets over past 24 minutes. That's avg 0.002 tweet/min/tweeter. Or 3 tweets per tweeter per day. 1,277,169,640,000.00 via TweetDeck
Been listening to Sleigh Bells "Treats." Immediately grabs & doesn't let go. Very textured percussive roll of rock & vox electronica. 1,277,168,677,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Flaky cellular signal forces me outside to tweet & call. All for best. Staying cooped in conf ctr conducive to the blinkers. 1,277,168,344,000.00 via txt
Why's US city named 4 that English town, & that 4 St. Botolph, & what's his/her great distinction? Why no big shrine 2 Botolph in Boston? 1,277,167,683,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. New focus on math geeks sorta ruling. Accountants key to commerce for ages but rarely rule. Nor will predictive slide rules. 1,277,167,111,000.00 via txt
Petroleum spill in ocean is biodegradeable. A transient mess. Probably going too far to think of it as a black blizzard. Or is it? 1,277,166,837,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Notice how the message all predictive analysis. Moved well beyond supporting core commoditized #BI & #DW requirements. 1,277,166,513,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee is an advanced analytics event. And U thought this was just vendor that ships hi-performance DW appliances. Stand corrected! 1,277,165,754,000.00 via txt
A FREEBIE HIKOO: Enter to win new/gadget. To use, need to patch/it. Repeatedly. 1,277,165,734,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. This "numerati" discussion provides impressionistic discussion of stat & ling analysis for DW pros. Old topic, new audience 1,277,159,306,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Stage Twitter podium doesn't seem to be updating. Keeps lazy me from near-real-time eyeballing of sentiments in this room. 1,277,158,593,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Stephen Baker. Put odds on mathematical model of humanity. JK--Predictive soc ntwk analysis. That's market forecasting. 1,277,157,263,000.00 via txt
Netezza #Enzee. Stephen Baker, author of "The Numerati," mentions need for "mathematical modeling of humanity." Social network analysis? 1,277,156,984,000.00 via txt
Enjoying Day 1 of #Enzee. Outdoors it's Day 1 of summertime. Indoors the A/C is cranked up to a wintry blast. Feel a blizzard coming on. 1,277,154,311,000.00 via txt
On main stage of Netezza #Enzee, many users and partners discussing business importance of predictive analytics. 1,277,150,490,000.00 via TweetDeck
Baum of Netezza #Enzee discusses NEC partnership. Partners built InfoFrame "screamer": Netezza DB accelerator on NEC hardware. 1,277,149,232,000.00 via TweetDeck
Baum of Netezza announces next gen of TwinFin: TwinFin i-Class with advanced analytics libraries bundled. #Enzee1,277,149,127,000.00 via TweetDeck
Baum of Netezza announces Cruiser, later in '10, for retention & archiving, "lowest-cost DW per TB" on market...up to 10 PB in one appliance 1,277,149,083,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Jim Baum brings out customers Con-Way Freight, Demand Media, Major League Baseball, & Premier Health for testimonials. 1,277,148,054,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee. I see Twitter stream displayed on podium in front of Jim Baum. Is it static or live feed? Where are my tweets? 1,277,147,858,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Jim Baum discusses Nsight: vision/goal/roadmap for predictive analytics & agility. Universal access & mgt, flex provisioning. 1,277,147,786,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Jim Baum stresses partnerships. says has over 350 customers, with around 450 TwinFin racks installed. 1,277,147,697,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee Jim Baum highlights continued growth. Stresses need for simple "it just works" DW platform. 1,277,147,650,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee keynote: Jim Baum, president, says 700 attendees. Key partners: Attivio, MicroStrategy, IBM. 1,277,147,609,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee keynote about to start. Video intro highlights case studies of complex computations serving optimized transactions. 1,277,147,508,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee keynote just about to start. Video highlights "intelligent economy" theme. Complex analytics. Big data. Social media. 1,277,147,389,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza positions i-Class platform as adv analytics DW appliance with multiple programming support--including but not limited to MapReduce. 1,277,144,106,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza they're seeing very strong customer interest in social network analysis. I speak on that very topic on Day 3 #Enzee. Hope to see U! 1,277,143,974,000.00 via TweetDeck
Netezza #Enzee attendance higher than ever this year. Customers excited about i-Class & R programming. Keynote less than hour from now. 1,277,143,902,000.00 via TweetDeck
Was just interviewed by Mark Brunelli of SearchDataManagement.com on the impact of social media on data quality. 1,277,142,916,000.00 via TweetDeck
Why suddenly do I have a powerful urge to hear any of the Royal Guardsmen's novelty songs about Snoopy & the Red Baron? Strange. 1,277,122,002,000.00 via TweetDeck
Bought the debut album by electro-distortion-rock duo Sleigh Bells. Copied it to my Zune. Listening to it for first time now. In an airport. 1,277,121,637,000.00 via TweetDeck
Where the new influence economy is concerned, all power to DW appliance vendor who provides deepest embedded social media analytic libraries 1,277,079,180,000.00 via TweetDeck
What I see brewing in the advanced analytic appliance market is rivalry on which vendor provides deepest embedded/bundled stat libraries. 1,277,079,100,000.00 via TweetDeck
Maybe it's just me, but I've always felt George Lucas' high point as a director was "American Graffiti." Realistic story with laughs & jams. 1,277,076,471,000.00 via txt
Which historical figures were lefthanded? How can we know for sure? When did people stop suppressing & stigmatizing their sinister side? 1,277,066,323,000.00 via txt
Tomorrow's summer solstice. Today's heat & humidity feel like dogdays advance blast. Days like this condition us to need for full blast A/C. 1,277,044,324,000.00 via txt
Russell Brand. He will obviously become megastar. He has makings of classic Hollywood heavy. I sense he's sitting on massively sad backstory 1,277,043,866,000.00 via txt
Agile dev for business analytics. That continuity of focus must be on business agility: ability to gracefully steer vehicle in any azimuth. 1,277,043,656,000.00 via txt
Agile dev. Wheel metaphor potent. Grips the road & turns to advance. Destination can be milestone. Or middle distance: continuity of focus. 1,277,043,373,000.00 via txt
Pure caffeine. For its full force, finish your coffee. Then brush teeth, scrape tongue, rinse mouth, gargle. Now breathe slowly & evenly. 1,277,043,123,000.00 via txt
CBS "Sunday Morning" interview of Bill Gates & his father. Name another tech titan whose family--any member of it--you can name. 1,277,042,967,000.00 via txt
Leading DBMS vendors put out informative mags on solid glossy paper. Flimsy, flat pulp rags would defeat prime purpose: instill confidence. 1,276,998,777,000.00 via TweetDeck
View my tweetstream and you'll see that I stream them in themes. Some are contiguous. Others sporadic. Gives mine "greater than sum" texture 1,276,998,458,000.00 via TweetDeck
It's with that long-tooth perspective that I observe my kids venture into their careers. An old man remembers how shaky U feel starting out 1,276,997,948,000.00 via TweetDeck
All of which gives me greater confidence that at age 51, when feel totally over-my-head on alternate days, I may actually be onto something. 1,276,997,745,000.00 via TweetDeck
It also freaks me out to re-read my senior honor's thesis in economics from U-Mich (1980). I knew more at age 20 than give myself credit for 1,276,997,561,000.00 via TweetDeck
Today 20 years ago I published Network World buyer's guide on "LAN DBMS." Surprised how much I knew before I actually knew anything. 1,276,997,414,000.00 via TweetDeck
Today 20 years ago I published Network World buyer's guide on "LAN DBMS" products. Fascinating detailed snapshot of industry pre-Internet. 1,276,997,313,000.00 via TweetDeck
Father's Day approaching. I don't ask for much from my grown children. I'm just happy to see them all grown up & occasionally ask my advice. 1,276,996,038,000.00 via TweetDeck
Predictive social mobility. Configure me with optimal traveling companions to make trip more fun & set stage 4 next best phase of my life. 1,276,971,641,000.00 via txt
Predictive mobility. Forecast likely conditions in traveler's likely path so path & conditions can be rearranged on fly 2 speed safely there 1,276,971,301,000.00 via txt
Human genome project. Follow-on should be massive social network graph analysis to illustrate our species-wide mitochondrial connectedness. 1,276,970,612,000.00 via txt
DNA analysis shows Europeans, east Asians, & native Americans have common ancestor. Central Asian, not Caucasian. Kazakh Kyrgysz Uzbek Tajik 1,276,970,249,000.00 via txt
Caught Tony Blair on Charlie Rose last night. Smart, articulate statesman could have cushy retirement. Why torture himself w/ MidEast mess? 1,276,969,982,000.00 via txt
Problem w/ VH-1 now is like problem with MTV from start. Music format just lame pretext 4 lamest reality programming VH = Vixen Houseparties 1,276,969,383,000.00 via txt
Many cable channels taking liberties with once-distinct formats in desperate ratings gambits. Let's just assign them arbitrary call letters. 1,276,968,747,000.00 via txt
Haven't detected any GOP strategy for plugging an undersea oil gusher, except perhaps jamming buncha tea bags down there. 1,276,968,382,000.00 via txt
