RT @reinventyrself "He who would travel happily must travel light" Antoine de Saint-Exupery JK--Clearly, airlines lost his baggage too often
Data geek. What it usually means is "analytics geek." Or, to get right down & dirty, "stat & math algorithm & regression & prediction geek"
Enterprise data warehouse. Many assume that means enterprise-wide. I define it to mean enterprise-grade. And enterprise-scalable.
Listening 2 Camera Obscura "Dory Previn" frm "Let's Get Out of This Country." Scots sing-sngwrtr Traceyanne wrote in other country: Montana
Michigan's population decline not such a bad thing. Less heavy industry means you can see the Great Lake State's natural beauty more clearly
Medical marijuana dispensaries. If pot still a controlled substance, states should monopolize, like booze in Virginia. Dont need competition
Medical marijuana dispensaries sprouting all over. Apparently, partyitis is treatable condition, albeit not recognized by major healthplans
The Winklevoss Twins. If they have any sense, they'll do a Charlie Sheen style #Winning tour while people still give a residual shit.
I just saw the most gorgeous yellow T-bird convertible. I covet.
Recollecting the day just past is important. Collect those experiences so U can scatter them as sun sets. Dont carry nonsense into the night
Good WSJ analysis yesterday: "Underlying ORCL Growth R Questions." Vendor needs to make #Exadata revenue impact more transparent.
Listening to Joni Mitchell "Free Man in Paris" from "Court & Spark." Wonderful example of her vocal and lyrical dexterity, and layered sound
Listening to Johnny Rivers' most excellent rocking version of "Midnight Special" from his greatest. Makes me care about Miss Lucy & her man
Indeed! Great interpreter of great material. Never oversold anything. Smooth romanticism without slick or cloying. Class act.
Washington Nationals lose manager to contract dispute but continue climb out of sub".500" territory. Let them go captain-less. Pennant-ward!
WRC-TV sports anchor Lindsay Czarniak going 2 ESPN. DC mkt has distressing track record of losing gorgeous female newspeople 2 national gigs
Glen Campbell. His Alzheimer's diagnosis & coming farewell tour. Had gr8 TV show in late 60s, had memorable hits, & was uncredited Beach Boy
Adele LP "21" keeps drawing me back into its embrace. Girl's got game.
Not a bad Friday. Mashed up my smarts in various and sundry ways live for paying customers. Jammed another doc into Q2 pipeline. Relaxing.
"Meanings Do Matter: Semantic Web in Your Data Analytics Strategy," or something to that effect.
RIP Peter Falk. He acted the part of the smartest dumb detective you ever met.
Week's not complete till I sweep my inboxes, and tweet, and aweekstweet!
@rpsherman I always laughed when I heard that US military involvement everywhere was "strategic." When global hegemony is strategy, it is.
@rpsherman Clearly, the shift in services has been from body shops to brain shops. Outsourcing infra & best practices to CoE powerhouses.
Just saw the word "psychopolitics." Isn't that redundant?
@rpsherman Thanks. Definitely enjoy your stuff too. Back 2 debate: If strategy is world domination, every little move may be a tactic.
@rpsherman For solution vendors, "strategic" indicated by where they R putting their big marketing bucks. Right now, HW/SW appliances R it!
Taking refresher update briefing from Progress Software on RPM 2.0 suite for continuous #BPM visibility, sense&respond, & optimization.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Codes and Keys by Death Cab for Cutie from Codes and Keys JK--Ben should do song about "Third Normal Form RDBMS" next
Working on a quick-turnaround #SemanticWeb report for #Forrester.
Should be sequel to "Romancing the Stone," called "Governancing the Stone," focused on rules & regs to ensure it stays rolling & moss-free.
Skype. It's the next best thing to my international extended family all residing in the same house. Actually, better. We like our houses.
Did customer inquiry on operational reporting data architectures that quickly fanned out to all corners of the data management universe.
@rpsherman Netezza isn't tactical for #IBM, nor is Exadata for #Oracle or #Greenplum for EMC. All are central to respective go-to-markets
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp This The Day by The The from Soul Mining JK--The The, Talk Talk, & Duran Duran will cover Foreigner's "Double Vision"
"Osama wanted new name 4 al-Qaida 2 repair image" (http://yhoo.it/ktQMuF) JK--He'd've been bad prod mgr. Proposed 13-syllable alternative
"MSFT Drops Fees 4 Moving Data Into Windows Azure" (http://bit.ly/lWOy6u) JK--Was sorta like bank charging U 2 deposit funds into account
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Destroy Everything You Touch by Ladytron from Witching Hour JK--Imagine Bananarama gone electronica.
Social media instrumental in catching Whitey Bulger. Gives a new meaning to "Follow Friday." #FF
@rpsherman Not true. They've all shifted to focus on integrated hardware/software stacks. IBM has taken next step: all that + prof services.
"8 Ways to Keep From Being Overwhelmed at Work" (http://bit.ly/kibBdT) JK--Never schedule meetings back-to-back. Why didnt I think of that?
"Digital Eternity Feels Hellish" (http://bit.ly/jAYwEY) JK--Do this instead: sit for a one-hour structured interview about your life.
Summer slowdown in IT industry news upon us. Press release volume dropping. But always a few summer spikes of important stuff outa the blue
A night spent fending off distractions. That's how I spend my days too. At nights, it's the family. During days, it's deadline-wreckers.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Johnny Ace Is Dead by Dave Alvin from the album Eleven Eleven JK--Fine new song from the Blasters dude.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp How Lovely All It Was by Old 97's from The Grand Theatre Vol Two JK--Excellent brand-new from indie-country greats
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Almost Lost My Mind by Charlie Rich from his best JK--He had a silvery mane and a silvery tone. Very cool country.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Lightning by George Jones from Country & Western Classcs JK--Could've easily been Jerry Lee Lewis song. Rockin'
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ole Slewfoot by Johnny Horton from Honky Tonk Man:Essential Johnny Horton JK--Perfect dance song for riverboat cruise
@jimericson Black Oak Arkansas. People tempted to abbreviate it to B.O. Arkansas. Quite frankly, association with B.O. kept me at distance
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Minnesota, WI by Bon Iver from the album Bon Iver JK--Really cool jazz-country-art-ish mash with JVernon's falsetto
Listening to LaVern Baker "Jim Dandy." Actually, I'm not. But I'll quote it anyway: "Jim Dandy to the rescue. Go Jim Dandy! Go Jim Dandy!"
If my tweeting were as illegible as my freehand, every tweet would read like this: "wwojah ahaddoappa os itbial ibig datapjaslwuala cool!"
On #DMRadio, I take notes on what my fellow panelists say. It's my usual messy cryptic diagram. Cloud-y in the extreme (but not to me).
On #DMRadio , I just said "Many businesses don't want 2 B in biz of IT, unless they are explicitly IT businesses. Many happy 2 outsource IT"
Sandy Steier of #1010Data coming on now....the mute problem has been resolved...come on Sandy!!!!!
And, on #DMRadio., Sandy Steier of #1010Data.
On #DMRadio panel, me, Colleen Smith, Progress; @ydemontcheuil , Talend; Jim Green, Composite; excitable @eric_kavanagh; placid @jimericson
@TonyCarrini #DMRadio We're Jim-Nasties or Jim-Dandies, depending on time of day, caffeine intake, etc. We're mercurial buncha Jimmy-boys!
About to launch into #DMRadio (http://bit.ly/lwFCQI) on shift to services, w/ @eric_kavanagh @jimericson @ydemontcheuil
@donalddotfarmer Curious if singularities at time (BigBang) begin & (BigCrunch) end R same entropy levels. Is cosmos entropy-life symmetric?
#Karmasphere will of course be at the #Hadoop Summit next week. Great announcements in store!
Taking update refresher briefing from #Karmasphere. Joined by @mgilpin & Brian Hopkins.
@mobiusmedia I was wondering about that. I'm always up for these. Federal spending? Spending on our services? U betcha!
"MicroStrategy & Kognitio Deepen Partnership to Solve Big Data Problems" (http://prn.to/jVbSP0) JK--I'm very impressed with Kognitio breadth
Catch me today on #DMRadio, 3pm (EDT), on "Shifting to Services for Data, Software and Infrastructure." Register: http://bit.ly/wHa0T
Taking briefing from #SAP #Sybase on IQ & ASE now & roadmap. Some of this is making up for me missing the analyst summit last month.
This morning's customer inquiries ( so far): DW in cloud, operational BI & BAM, Hadoop.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Rise by Doves from the album Lost Souls JK--Group has great guitar atmospherics in a hardrocking format.
"Hey Jim, how are you?" "Busy, how about you? "Busy." "Right....better to be busy than have nothing to do, right?" "Right."
Has everybody morphed into Crococile Dundee. What's with the Aussie-ish "no worries" on the lips of every knowledge worker?
They're opening two new Dunkin' Donuts within 4 miles of my home, and we already have 5-6 in this vicinity. Dunkin's the new Starbucks.
After even a few days on the road, my email inbox looks like I've been gone a month.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Wait & See by Diamond Rings from the album Special Affections JK--From last year. Shoulda been a monster radio hit
Whitey Bulger caught in Santa Monica. That was quick. Wait...that wasn't. He's been on the lam for years.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Movin' Down the Line by Raphael Saadiq from Stone Rollin' JK--New song with early-70s soul vibe.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Underground by Curtis Mayfield from album Roots JK--1971. Artist's work entangled with early 70s in cultural memory
What's the entropy of a singularity?
Superposition. Use FM radio analogy. Station is rock & classical mutual interfere. U approach try 2 tune collapses wave funct Beatle or Bach
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast by Bill Callahan JK--Has awesome song titles. Best is "Dress Sexy at my Funeral"
New #Forrester rept: "Leverage Business Rules To Optimize Customer Scenarios: Case Studies In CRM Next Best Action" (http://bit.ly/m2KC3w)
New #Forrester report: "The Power Of Predictions: Case Studies In CRM Next Best Action" (http://bit.ly/ljLbXP)
This friggin' freezin' AC vent in the ceiling of this terminal at Logan is giving me frostbite. It is summer now, isn't it?
Just did customer inquiry re which #BigData #EDW vendor they should go with. Tough decision. Many strong players, per my Wave
#enzee I.DE.A. Winner Atos Origin: adaptive light control & vehicle navig sys. Dyn-data-driven nxt best action recomm on driver route choice
#enzee11 Nz will deliver, in 2012, ultra hi-perf all-SSD in-memory flash cache appliance with 10x perf vis-a-vis TwinFin v6.
#enzee11 Nz solution performance has doubled each year for 8 straight years. That's 250x improvement in query acceleration etc
#enzee11 Netezza R&D/engineering staff has doubled in past year.
Wanna personally thank Phil F for namedropping me from #enzee11 mainstage in #BigData "4 Vs" context. The 4th V is volatility or variability
Not likely. But he's doing a good job singing the praises of #MicroStrategy customers doing cool stuff with mobile intelligence.
The #MicroStrategy speaker, Hugh somebody, strongly resembles Morrissey of Smiths fame. But with a non-mopey visage and a non-whingy voice.
#enzee11 Hope #IBM keeps this annual conf a distinct event for #Netezza loyal customers, even if means separate track at fall IOD.
I love aesthetic design of Netezza appliances. The semi-circle patterns, the color hues & saturation, subtle textures--datacenter standouts!
I was wary but then reciprocated the "follow me" request of @ChartPornOrg . They aren't "porn." They R great research data visualizations
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp One Fine Morning by Bill Callahan from Apocalypse JK--Man with voice as plain, tough, and genuine as leather.
"Content analytics software helps companies hear voice of customer" (http://bit.ly/k88LLd) JK--Yes, yes, yes. Twitter is venting central
"IBM Aims to Bring Social Media Into Compliance" (http://bit.ly/lM2jVd) JK--Automated e-discovery on social media conversations.
"IBM's Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance" (http://bit.ly/kBqGFP) JK--High-Cap Appliance is geared to Big Data archiving.
RT @Deborah909: "Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." http://xkcd.com/915/ #xkcd
@merv Hey dude, you're a bro. I also compete with my blood bros. Same diff.
Clearly, wrenching changes in store for Greece: live a more spartan existence, adopt a more stoic attitude, clean out that messy attic.
NYTimes wastes newsprint on analysis of Weiner's handwriting, doing hard-hitting expose into his "psyche." Next installment: Ouijanalysis
Listening to The Hollies "Bus Stop" from their greatest. First 45rpm vinyl I ever bought. 1966.
Romney should run 4 president on the Democratic ticket. Wouldnt need to adjust as many of his positions as with the course he's currently on
Fought sleep to catch Florence & The Machine on Colbert. Glad I did. They did "Dog Days Are Over." Florence has one powerful throat!
@merv #enzee11 Always pleased 2 C my archrival at any industry event. Word is Gartner & Forrester are in cahoots, like Beatles & Stones
@nancykoppdw #enzee11 Pleasure to see you too Nancy. Thanks for recognizing me. I'm a totally absent-minded fool.
Just accepted Kathye Mangene as my cuz in Facebook. Hey Kathye I accepted U the moment I 1st met you, when we were 3. This is just formality
Listening to The National "Start a War." Released during GWBush admin. Not about Iraq. But partly draws its power from cultural indirection
Two young women walking, one with arm around other's shoulder. Think what you will, but even a walkby tweeter detects deep feelings.
Listening to Natalie Merchant "River" from "Tigerlily." Her elegy to River Phoenix. She calibrates her vocal to invoke maximum heartbreak.
Listening to Jethro Tull "Aqualung" from "Original Masters." Ian Anderson acts it convincingly. "Sun-streaking cold."
Listening to Henry Mancini "Baby Elephant Walk." @Shawnrog saw me do my baby idiot random walk today at #enzee11. I zone. I Zune. I zero in
Boston Common. America's first urban central park. Thank U for people's right to peaceably party.
Some cute blonde lady offered hi5 as I walked. Who the hell was that? Anyway, as I said, cute blonde lady. Hi5 couldn't hurt. Slap! Who?
Netezza bus driver out front the House of Blues couldn't believe I want to walk back to the hotel. Yeah, duh, Boston's nothing.
Summer Solstice night in Boston Back Bay with mellow weather and restaurants & bars with younger people having great times. I enjoy walking.
Walking thru Back Bay, listening to my personal uber-theme song: Arthur & Yu "Lion's Mouth." One of all-time greatest make-out songs.
Kathleen Grave of #IBM, whenever she gets on Twitter, may or may not discover that the #Forrester guy tweeted how cool she is. The Kinks!
Boston House of Blues singer did a fine job on Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." Walking thru Back Bay, listening to the real thing.
Woulda been great to party. Maybe next time Vanessa.
Partying with #IBM at House of Blues Boston, across the street from Fenway park, on nice summer evening. Doesn't get more Boston than this.
Listening to Beatles "Dr Robert" from "Revolver." Fab Four's best pharmaceutical-inspired composition. No not novocaine.
Focus groups told Bob Marley the sequels, "No Woman No Whine" & "No Woman No Interrupt," wouldnt go over well. Women dont dig Jamaican jerk
RT @msnbc_tech Summer solstice starts w/ solar storm (http://on.msnbc.com/jJu9kB) JK--With solar thunder lightning hail humidity & rainbow
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Spring and by Summer Fall by Blonde Redhead from the album 23 JK--This song is pure headlong rush blur.
Bottom line: w/out very large data sets (#BigData), we're likely to miss outliers (#LongTail) & misfire on offer targeting (#NextBestAction)
Interesting panel at #enzee. Without very large data sets (ie, #BigData), we are likely to miss the outliers (ie, #LongTail).
Not at #Forrester's Customer Experience Forum. Happening right now. Heard it's a great event. Busy at #enzee11. Also a great event.
Starting my summer on Summer Street (http://bit.ly/kYRb57). Summer schweeeet!
"82-year-old Father of the cell phone buys new smartphone every 2 months" (http://bit.ly/jLMDyF) JK--He loses them THAT often?
Nicole Laskowski (@TT_Nicole ). Sorry about the misspell. We Polish-Americans must show Solidarnosc on our surname spelling persnicketude.
Met & chatted with @TT_Nicole (Nicole Lakowski) at #enzee11. Actually, she recognized me. TechTarget reporter who calls me now & again.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Summertime Cowboy by Husky Rescue from Country Falls JK--Definitely a great summer vibe. Love whipcrack sound FX
#Forrester has a brand-new HQ building coming online soon. Still Cambridge, but further out past Harvard.
RT @cloudEq Exostar Unveils New Global Headquarters (http://eqent.me/in5SWt) JK--Really? They could barely fill the space they leased.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Sun by Caribou from the album Swim JK--The song simply radiates the word "sun" in wave upon wave of processed shine
Ummmmm....Summer solstice is right ...........NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Going to catch 2:15 panel on #BigData at #enzee11 with @shawnrog , Revolution Analytics, & Open Insights.
Caught #Aginity in #enzee11 partner showcase. Multichann #CRM mktg campgn analytics (modlng, segmnt8n, next best action) on Nz appliance.
RT @merv: #enzee11 Attivio discussion of use cases quite inteteresting, though not much Netezza content.
#enzee11 Probstein of #Attivio discussing their recommendation engine leveraging entity & transaction analysis for next-best offer in B2C
#enzee11 Listening to Sid Probstein from #Attivio re using text analytics & sentiment analysis in #BigData initiatives.
#enzee11 Spoke to #Ventraq in partner showcase. Has Nz-based analytic solution appliance 4 telcos 4 CDR-crunching customer experience optz'n
"Traveler's Vade Mecum" (http://bit.ly/itRqXM) JK--Essentially, mid-19th century tweets (http://bit.ly/lFkAEh) numbercoded for telegraph\
Now for the ritualized morning transition from hot bitter supercaffeinated to cold sweet supercarbonated. Either way, a prelunch powerdrink.
#enzee11 Michelle Chambers discussing #IBM #Netezza plans for horizontal & vertical & niche appliances for advanced analytics
#enzee11 Raziuddin says Nz will add distributed restrict optimization query later in year. Support targeted offer in #CRM next best action
#enzee11 Can execute Fuzzy Logix, Revolution Analytics, other partner, customer, & Nz stat algo libraries inside IBM Nz Analytics platform
#enzee11. i-Class now called "IBM Netezza Analytics": ability to embed complex prebuilt stat functions & execute inside Nz MPP appliance
#enzee11. Raziuddin says Nz Rep;lication GA Q3. Distrib #EDW, scale-out, cross-geog, auto local HA/DR, concurr qry exec, wkld bal cross-node
"Oracle Acquring FatWire" (http://j.mp/ky2d0f) JK--Web experience mgt. B2C interaction optz'n. Any intersect with RTD NxtBstAction strategy?
#enzee11 Raziuddin promises 5-10TB/hr load speeds in Nz Hi-Cap Appliance "by this time next year."
#enzee11 Raziuddin discussing Nz Hi-Cap Appliance 4 archive (fka "Cruiser") lo price-point (<$2.5K/TB), fast load (5.5TB/hr), hi-cap (10PB)
#enzee11 Mills doubts "uber-appliance is exactly what the market wants." Define that, Steve. Cuz it seems #IBM uber-izing its appliances.
RT @richardwinter: Steve Mills positions IBM Smart Analytic Systems (ISAS) as "flexible integrated" vs Netezza as "true appliance" #enzee11
RT @merv: #enzee11 Mills: business analytics investment will equal process automation investment. IBM has pursued with $16B ourselves.
RT @datamartist: @jameskobielus Companies invest in BI outperform, or outperforming companies invest in BI? Correllation!=Cause :-)
#enzee11 Mills shows slide showing that companies that invest in business analytics consistently outperform. Source of numbers?
Ecosystem. Occasionally, I mis-hear that as "egosystem." Every industry is personality cloud constituting vibrant system of dueling egos
#enzee11 Mills discussing #IBM big investments in Big Data frontiers: streaming, cluster & pattern-based analysis, #Hadoop, MPP #EDW, etc
#enzee11 Mills discussing Big Data challenge harnessing variable unstructured data & need to exploit it in timely, cost-effective fashion.
#enzee11 Mills shows great slide that shows IBM functional coverage with best-of-breed across all advanced analytics problems.
#enzee11 Mills discussing instrumenting business processes with smarter anaytics. Algorithms automating significant new process patterns.
#enzee11 Mills with #IBM #Netezza S-intensive value prop: speed, simplicity, scalability, smart. The hissing of Summer Solstice sibilance
#enzee11 Mills invokes the "A-word" (appliance). We're sitting here in Massachusetts, where Nathaniel Hawthorne enshrined another A-word.
#enzee11 Mills says most urgent customer requirements boil down to "rapid time to value," with simplicity & ease of deployment paramount.
#enzee11 Mills discussing #IBM massive data analytics solution portfolio. Clearly, they have best-of-breed in most categories.
#enzee11 I fully expect #Oracle to counter Mills' "only 20 reference customers for #Exadata" assertion with big blitz of ref customers
@frisco0303 That's right. How could I forget. Last year on this stage I competed with a live feed of football.
#enzee11 Mills is seriously understating number of ref customers that #Oracle has 4 #Exadata. There are many. #Forrester has spoken to many
#enzee11 Mills joined #IBM in 1973 "believe it or not." Discussing Big Blue "customer loyalty" orientation long back & Nz customer loyalty
#enzee11 Mills discussing the reasons why #IBM acquired #Netezza last year & Nz's role in IBM roadmaps.
Speaking at #enzee 11 is Steve Mills, #IBM SVP & group exec, Software & Sys, head of IBM's products biz. "New Intelligence 4 Smarter Planet"
In front row at keynote on Day 2 at #enzee11. Like this photo montage. What's with soccer balls & false teeth?
Chilling in lobby at #enzee11. Steve Mills speaks 30 minutes from now. Chatted with Ken Hausman. Ex #SAS, he's new Nz prod mgr adv analytics
Going down to event registration at #enzee11. Already had my green hotel registration apple. Already tweeted my usual daybreak nonsense.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bumper by Cults from the album Cults JK--One of those great catchy retro-girlgroup-ish new groups.
"When Hard Books Disappear" (http://bit.ly/iUpeAZ) JK--And public libraries in their traditional form must adapt or die.
Green Lantern. As kid, I was DC comix geek. Much as I consumed all that Hal Jordan stuff, always thought "lantern" a dumb Paul Revere tech
RT @socialmediacrux: If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
@Nat_Hansen On that topic, check out the great lovesong "Librarian" from My Morning Jacket's "Evil Urges" album. Nothing evil about the song
Summer solstice is 1:30-ish (eastern) this afternoon. But summer weather's been upon us in DC for a month-plus already.
"Supercomputer w/ 68,000+ CPUs is world's fastest" (http://tek.io/kPILbN) JK--Which computational cloud is petaflops champ? Who rates those?
#IBM #Netezza probably realizes #enzee11 one of last shows on #EDW industry Spring circuit pre-vacation. Competes with analyst mind drift.
Grabbed my free NYTimes & WSJ. Decided to take pass on Boston Globe. Not that it's not good. Just that there'll be residual piles l8r 2 grab
The hashtag is #enzee11. The event is #IBM #Netezza Enzee Universe. The venue is Westin Boston Waterfront. The tweeter is....oh you know.
Bon Iver "Re: Stacks" (http://youtu.be/ePatJIwB-sI). One of my fave songs from the awesome first LP "For Emma, Forever Ago" (2008).
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Lisbon, OH by Bon Iver JK--From new LP. Very cool. Justin Vernon is evolving the atmospherics with subtle colors
#HP #Vertica will make Vertica 5.0 available soon its appliance, HP Vertica Analytics System (http://bit.ly/mN13N6).
Escuchando a "El Sonido" en #KEXP, una estacion publica desde Seattle con @deejayChilly . Musica para alma y cuerpo. Viva #KEXP !!!!!!
Wow! Frank Sinatra has tracks on 831 albums (http://bit.ly/kd76BZ)
RT @NancySinatra: One more bit of news for tonight, friends: Frank Sinatra Singles are up at last. It's huge!! Enjoy! http://bit.ly/mlQEpB
Summer solstice approaching. Shortest night of year is upon us. When it's middle of night, anytime of year, still feels long. Night is deep
Try thinking of Springsteen's definitive recordings without Clemons' wailing sax. Can't, can you?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Montezuma by Fleet Foxes from Helplessness Blues JK--A desert island disc best suited to deserted cabin in the woods
RT @ForbesTech: Obama to Tweet Own Tweets (http://onforb.es/kL5If3) JK--Don't tweet any photos, please. One pol wardrobe malfunction enough
"SAP's HANA in-memory analytics engine now available" (http://bit.ly/lbW1LM) JK--Fundamental to #SAP app solution scaling & acceleration
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp She Don't Use Jelly by The Flaming Lips JK--Subtle wordplay, Wayne. See also: The Who "Squeeze Box"
"Coming soon to the Internet: The .whatever address" (http://yhoo.it/iSFIsz) JK--I'm waiting for the ".yaddayaddayadda" domain.
Amazing how productive you can be when relaxed. Amazing how productive you can be when tense as hell. Key ingredient: no distractions.
"HP's Vertica Adds Developer-level Access" (http://bit.ly/iq6zTs) JK-- #HP #Vertica 5.0: implement MapReduce thru standard SQL queries
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Nobody Knows by The Feelies from the album Here Before JK--Just makes me happy. Great groovy veteran indie rockers
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp She Walks In So Many Ways by The Jayhawks from the album Mockingbird Time JK--See previous tweet for my thumbs up
RT @djkevincole: Playing a sneak peek of the new album from @TheJayhawks on KEXP! JK--It's awesome. Thanks for playing Kevin!
Charlie at our Tysons office has the coolest hi-power stapler. I covet it.
Explained concept of "decision logic" in Next Best Action. Curious what connotations it acquires upon translation to Japanese.
Regaled my client with all the synonyms for "Next Best Action." Listened as they were either translated to Japanese or airquoted in English.
Client visited from overseas for a couple of prime face-to-face consulting hours on #CRM Next Best Action. Fairly intense few hours.
RT @vanhoosear: .@jamespbaum introduces the @Netezza High Capacity Appliance at #enzee11 JK--Such as this.
Been prebriefed on all #Netezza announcements.
Fairly busy day. Will be a fairly business travel night. A fairly busy next couple of day at #Netezza show. Busy end of quarter. Busy summer
Interviewed via email by @chriskanaracus of #IDG re #IBM
Interviewed by @Joab_Jackson of #IDG re #HP #Vertica 5.0
"Huawei Calls Charge of Government Help 'Hogwash'" (http://bit.ly/l9QrnW) JK--Curious what Han ideograms "hog" & "wash" might be.
"MapReduce could be the server's newest friend" (http://bit.ly/mAB5ky) JK--For cluster-scalable log analysis on any server.
Losing my research associate Alli Caine. But she's Ann Arbor's gain. Go Alli. Go anthropology. Hail to the victors valiant!
Working on my #Hadoop case study report. Gearing up for a #Hadoop solutions mini-Wave.
"Google Suggests Googling Yourself" (http://bit.ly/m7spAL) JK--Google also suggests you stick the results where the sun don't shine.
We need standard industry pronunciation. HAY-doop? HAD-oop? hu-DOOP? Laddie, ai've hahd it oop to hur wif 'is here uncertainty.
Wow. A NY Post editorial can be condensed to a single tweet without losing any substance or nuance. Nifty trick!
"We will have to agree to disagree." Come off it. You mean "we will have to agree to remain on speaking terms even though you're nuts."
I love when clients come a-visitin' our Tysons office. Gives me a chance to put on my best suit and pretend to be a grown-up professional.
If you're on the Beltway driving thru Tysons this morning I can see you from my 7th floor perch. Don't wave. Keep your hands on the wheel!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp To Have in the Home by Woods from Sun and Shade JK--This slightly off-key vocalist always sounds exactly on the money
@VanessaAlvarez1 Yep. But the 2060s may out-suggest the 1960s into history's dustbin. They may have invented Robo-NancySinatra by then.
Flying up to Boston today for #IBM #Netezza Enzee Universe. Catch me there tomorrow & the next day.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Theses Boots are Made for Walkin by Nancy Sinatra from Boots JK--Greatest suggestive song of late 60s
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Everything Is Everything by Jones, Gary, Hooker, Chen & California from Road From Memphis JK--Busy road. Take the bus
Rainy one. Nice & rainy. I use "nice" in the same context as "rainy" when I have no pressing need to be outdoors & there's no weather drama
Saw "Midnight in Paris." Good script, great performances, very immersive experience of the French capital across different eras.
I seriously h8 these "..World" FB games. Muchos dumb requests, e.g, "Here are 10,000 servings of Lemon Meringue! Serve these in yr cafe !"
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Walk at Night by Cults from the album Cults JK--New group with sorta atmospheric updated 60s-girl-group sound.
For the record, I want to congratulate all my fellow males on earth who have procreated for having done so. Tough job, but somebody's gotta!
Got very nice Father's Day greetings from both of my offspring. They sprung off but don't sponge off.
@StevePR104 I'm not wearing a shirt. I worry about you Steve! ;-)
Listening to Built to Spill "Mess With Time" from "You In Reverse." Another one of those personal theme songs I was tweeting you about.
Listening to Chumbawamba "Tubthumping" from "Tubthumper." One of several personal theme songs in tight rotation.
Contrary to folklore, the Norman Invasion did not involve a single guy named Norman.
Courting influence is tantamount to sucking up. Can you perform at your peak in the face of jeers?
TV commercial 4 dishwasher detergent. Set on deck of "Star Trek" like spaceship. Display disclaimer "dramatization" on screen. Gee, duh.
Media world has turned. My now-grown kids' gener8n doesnt get news from hardcopy newspapers, glossy newsmags, or slick national anchor-do's.
Univision. This will inexorably become one of the largest TV channels in western hemisphere. And influencer in US elections. Habamos espanol
Weinergate. Just shows to go you how pathetically lame a virtual political sex scandal can be. Clinton-Lewinsky: now that was non-virtual!
None of those GOP candidates has fire in belly. They have microwaves set to 50% power & are all simply reheating refried beans.
In other news apparently less important than Weinergate this past week, radiation still leaking into Japan environment. No sex angle on this
How can Facebook become a "dead social"? We simply stop looking at at. We simply stop posting to it. We're tired. It's too much nonsense.
How could Facebook become "dead social"? Some peeps overdo the "-Ville" crap, post little useful content, piss the rest of us off, we leave
How could Facebook become a "dead social"? One scenario has TweetDeck front-ending a >140 Twitter & frontending other cooler socials
Doing an #IBM event this week. #Netezza Enzee Universe in Boston. Rearranged my nutsy schedule to accommodate. Worth it. They stay on a roll
#IBM at 100. in early 60s, their 360 line of mainframe helped them leave my dad's employer, #SperryUnivac , in dust. Do I forgive them?
Father's Day is said to be top day of year for collect calls. Because, apparently, your old man is loaded. And he doesnt mind paying 2 talk
Not planning to visit a beach this summer, or, if I did, to read on it. But media putting pressure on me to do beach reading. Must succumb.
Now I think my brothers realize why I was so insistent on documenting it all while we lived it. I am still doing that. In an evolving medium
My Father's Day tribute to late dad Bill is "Best of Bill, vols 1 & 2," the scanned photos I FB'd months ago. Teenage me took most of Vol 2
Whenever somebody says "post-industrial," "post-modern," or "post-war," I notice how much industry & war we still have in the modern world
RIP Clarence Clemons. He brought sax back into the core vocabulary of rock and roll.
Julian Assange. Name fast fading into Trivial Pursuit territory. What'd he do? Invent Wikipedia? No that's not it. I'd like 2 use a lifeline
Listening to The Who "5:15" from "Quadrophenia." Roger Daltrey has the most perfect rocknroll powervoice. Never bows or cows to Moon or Pete
Listening to Alison Statton & Spike "Tidal Blues" from '94 LP of that name. She is an awesomely soulful singer-songwriter in her own right.
Listening to Weavers "Follow the Drinking Gourd." Clearly, a coded Commie message song. The "Old Man" must be Pete's dear Uncle Joe Stalin.
Listening to Crowded House "Weather With You" from their best. Perfect example of great-sounding nonsense lyrics floating on awesome melody
Listening to Clannad "Northern Skyline" from their best. Maire, unlike little sis Enya, doesnt process her vocals. A most bewitching colleen
Listening to The Pogues "If I Should Fall From Grace With God." We all did, Shane, laddie. Its called original sin. I passed CCD, dude. You?
Listening to Van Morrison "He Ain't Give You None" from "TB Sheets." Give you his Jelly Roll...Morton? Old John flogs his daily what?
What is optimization? It's the best you can hope for, under these circumstances, with these resources and constraints. The numbers prove it.
Data, analytics, & optimization. That's raw material, milling machinery, and processed result grain.
Saw cool new sports car today. Had to blink when I saw the make. Plymouth? Prowler.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Living for the City by Stevie Wonder from Innervisions JK--Great story-song.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Trouble Man by Marvin Gaye from Pimps, Players & Private Eyes JK--Awesome soul falsetto!
Customer experience optimization demands deep behavioral insights. Service providers hold a wealth of custome… (cont) http://deck.ly/~Orru9
A good editor is hard to come by. It's a matter of editing and iterating expeditiously without attitudinalizing. Fine balance 2 hit.
Boost your brain power. Keep on asking questions. Keep on questioning answers.
Those boxy stretch prom limos. Essentially, flattened horsepower-limited mini-buses. Put that way, doesn't sound so cool, eh kids?
Adam Smith called the dynamic that sets freemrket prices "invisible hand." Now it's "invisi-rithm." Unseen algorithms. Unseen hands of maths
Campaign is project. Endless campaign no longer a project. It's a program on endless loop.
Starbucks Capitol Hill. Customer has old "campaign worker" carry-on. Cant read name of campaign. Faded. No biggie. One campaign blurs 2 next
@manish2280 For sure. Entertaining a thought without accepting it is easy. Like entertaining a house guest without giving them house key.
Surefire SEO strategies? Sure. And I've got a sure thing on a pony in the fifth race at Hialeah today.
Fewer travelers watch the in-flight movies that airlines screen overhead. More fliers have portable DVD players/laptops. And own DVDs
Facebook's decline in US members reminds me of 10-15 years ago when AOL made folks quake in boots. Just sayin'
Shaggs "Who are Parents" from classic/hyperlame album #1, "PhilosOphy of the World" (http://youtu.be/4cs1BIlglzI). Tomorrow. Dads DO care
I bought Shaggs LP#2, "Shaggs Own Thing," when it came out on vinyl in early 80s. Very nice LP. Not junk. Nobody bought it.
Believe or not, Shaggs (the Wiggins sisters) did learn their instruments. This nice one, "Wheels," from LP#2 (http://youtu.be/j9ID43MWHsA)
I've just given away my fave sitcom of the 2000s. In an era of sitcom decline, "Scrubs" was my fond weekly addiction. Dr Cox was my fave!
NBC programmed "My World & Welcome To It" right before Rowan & Martin's "Laugh In." Both were highly innovative for their day. "Scrubs"-ish
My deepest memory of "My World and Welcome To It" was some hayseed philosopher who outshined William Windom's character in his family's eyes
One-season TV gem from 1969-70: "My World And Welcome To It" (http://youtu.be/lv-0P7ZZHsQ). Funnier than Thurber's original stories.
@dougmow Early AM is deliberately "unproductive" time for me. It's at the heart of my "spacing out regularly" strategy to stay balanced.
No need 2 put my dad's face in my social photo profiles this weekend. I'm his spitting image, as family reminds. Cant NOT be reminded of him
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Midnight Madness by Ill Cosby from Heartbeats JK--Seattle based DJ/producer whose pseudonym makes me chuckle.
If you're so influential, why aren't you rich? Or, if you were rich before you got influential, what's the incremental benefit of influence?
Now that we all have several years data on popular social usage, has anybody determined whether correlation btwn influence & incomes?
Curious whether people "unfollow" more frequently as get deeper into social, or less frequently. Do we follow & stay indiscriminately?
Anybody whose tweetstream resembles a mundane "wanna do lunch?" IM/chat session with close friends is "don't follow" from my POV.
We got some seriously intense, but non-flooding, rain yesterday evening in Northern Virginia. God watered the plants in pots on our deck.
I'm open to any vendor with innovative or promising #BigData approach, #Hadoop or otherwise. Lots of innovation going on.
"Massively Parallel Db Startup 2 Reap Multicore Dividends" (http://bit.ly/iICBeR) JK--Hopefully, theyll be at #Hadoop Summit, though non-Hdp
@dougmow Mine are grown-up, and only one of them is under my roof now. Her sleep--and wakefulness--habits are similar to mine.
"Visitors That Came to Stay" (http://on.wsj.com/kbhQyq JK--Viruses are in our genome. Can they be evolution's cross-species mutation vector?
"Why Transportation Has Gone Nowhere Fast" (http://on.wsj.com/ivgZ6T) JK--Biggest 20th century letdown? Collapse of personal jetpack indstry
Never thought of Vancouver as a rough-and-tumble place. But hockey team name does sound like 3 Stooges' Curly: Canuck-nuck-nuck-nuck-nuck!
My fave thing about early mornings is fact that I'm only one awake in the house. No one to disturb my paper-reading coffee-sipping reverie
@NekoCase Welcome to summer Neko. The season the bugs remind you who'll inherit the earth.
Next best action. It can be a conversation. Or an orchestration. Or an orchestration of conversations. Or conversation about orchestrations
Decisioning, decision automation, & decision management. More synonyms. Preferred term is "next best action."
Bo Derek wuz robbed. If she'd've appeared in "This is Spinal Tap," she'd've rated an 11.
Search for and read WashPost capsule article: "While We Focused on Weinergate." Contextualizes this media feeding frenzy well.
RIP Bob Banner. Veteran TV producer/director got Carol Burnett to open her variety hour w/ audience Q&A. That survives deepest in my memory
Behavior. Culture makes people behave the way they do. But you can't kick culture's ass, can you?
