Dog & pony shows are OK, but I'd like to see the ponies ride the dogs for a change. Or dog-eat-dog. Now, THAT would be a SHOW!!!!
@kimstanick Good to know I can still count on you Kim!
"What Steve Jobs Was & Wasnt" (bit.ly/pWmf9a) JK--Howard Anderson sez it. Brillilant but difficult. Makes him into Ayn Rand character
This weekend, got grass to mow, burgers to eat.
Whenever somebody asserts "[big tech solution category] is a failure," I think it's primarily their failure to research, analyze, & explain
"Oracle Eyes HP VARs In Partner Recruiting Blitz" (bit.ly/rsT9RS) JK--Agresive incursions risk inspiring sympathy 4 beleaguered rival
@kimstanick Who said anything about not tweeting? It's a pleasure for me, not work. If I wasn't having fun, I'd stop.
Three-day weekend. I'm a-gonna take it.
#AlpineDataLabs told me they really liked my doc "In-Db Analytics: Heart Of Predictive Enterprise" (bit.ly/a6NQmz). Made me feel good
#Hadoop Wave coming along nicely. @nonash88 & I getting the first draft scorecard squared away. Back 2 vdrs for reviews soon.
@jimmyfallon tweeting about #kEXP the best radio in the world! JK--Dude's got good taste. BTW, youtu.be/N799R_mDx_U
#AlpineDataLabs. Strong in-database analytics tools for EMC Greenplum, Oracle, Netezza...and, in 2012, #Hadoop.
#AlpineDataLabs was incubated in #Greenplum, spunoff in Jan 2010, before EMC acquired GP. VC funded. Impressive quarter-by-quarter growth.
Taking briefing from #AlpineDataLabs. Advanced analytics data mining tool vendor.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Let Down by Radiohead from OK Computer JK--My personal fave from their extensive back-catalog.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Redemption Song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from Uprising JK--"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery."
Actually, dont search 4 the "insanely great idea." Just search 4 stuff that floats yer particular boat. If others think that crazy, so be it
When the #kexp audio stream degrades, it starts to sound like Yello "Oh Yeah" (youtu.be/8Q7FFjUpVLg)
I'm seeing 75% discounting from list in the #EDW appliance space & sub-$10K/TB street pricing.
@loserboy son Arlie is the Ricky Nelson of #kexp. He's growing up before our ears. Listening to Ricky Nelson "Believe What You Say"
@loserboy son Arlie is the Ricky Nelson of #kexp. He's growing up before our ears. Listening to Rkcy "Believe What You Say"
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp That's Entertainment by The Jam JK--None of these experiences sounds particularly entertaining. Oh, that's the point
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1 by The Flaming Lips JK--"You know it'd be tragic if those evil robots win."
Only overlap of Apple/Jobs with my coverage areas is the devices--iPad & iPhone--which are being used for mobile #BI access & visualization
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel from Bridge Over Troubled Water JK--Rare pop hit that says word "whores."
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp You'll Improve Me by Junior Boys from It's All True JK--These Boys are going 80s lite electro-dance pop.
"Google adds cloud-based SQL database to App Engine" (bit.ly/rk9DFz) JK--Shows SQL niches in cloud computing. SQL not dead.
RT @mgperry: Steve Jobs’ Death Breaks Twitter Record. 10,000 tweets per second, a total of 2.5 million tweets (bit.ly/pJmNIk)
Gates' main legacy will be shaming billionaires into giving back their wealth to the world. Him and Buffett.
@SethGrimes I'm not worried about Gates' or any other tech exec's posthumous legacy. Their heirs have their wealth to keep them warm.
#Platfora (bit.ly/qObkZ6) . New player in the #Hadoop market. Hey Ben, now that you're out of stealth, brief me!
@SethGrimes That's my primary interest too.
@SethGrimes We're talking personalities here, not products. Windows still far & away success on PC OS front. Jobs/Apple, on "hipness" front
@SethGrimes None of them would. Few tech superstars have ever truly crossed over to cultural rockstar status. Only Jobs did, for good or bad
Detroit knocks Yankees out of post-season. Whew! Now I can doff my fair-weather-fan cap. #GoTigers
"GRACE SLICK//Famous name. Lobby face. Lowered eyes. Hair pulled back. Deep in couch. Hands in lap. Sile… (cont) deck.ly/~ZwYlO
Grace Slick Profile - CBS 08/03/09 (youtu.be/GAiQf-jQhWI) . She's still got that incredible penetrating stare & tough cool ladyhood
@supeters What? They can only make one movie about Jobs?
Let's see. Hmmm. Think Hollywood will rush out a biopic of Steve Jobs? Nah. No popular interest in the guy's life. None whatsoever.
TDWI is incredibly proactive. I'll be speaking at their Feb 2012 LV event re social BI. We're nailing all logistics far in advance.
Grace Slick & Great Society "Sally Go Round the Roses" (youtu.be/2NSy4i-5Qxw). 1966. I first heard it in 1976. Bought it right away.
What I found touching is how Steve Jobs established real friendships with CEOs of other hi-tek vendors. Can tell from tone of their comments
"How Long Will the USPS Be Around?" (bit.ly/oU72mx) JK--I suggest total privatization. Mail will flow reliably over private channels
Just as the Beatles were "just a band," Apple under Jobs was just a vendor.
"Where will the Steve Jobs tech excitement come from now?" (bit.ly/qVkFBO) JK--Get real. It'll come from other vendors, most likely.
"Microsoft tries to make Hotmail cool again with overhaul" (bit.ly/nzCcdq) JK--Get real. Nobody ever thought Hotmail cool, just free.
"With Siri, Apple's iPhone 4S gets voice" (bit.ly/nRLSMK) JK--If U're like me, 1st reaction was "Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes daughter?"
Alison Statton & Spike "Mr Morgan" (youtu.be/ASQ7n5SE91Q) Here's Young Marble Giants singer's most distinctive non-YMG project.
Young Marble Giants "Colossal Youth" (youtu.be/0s0nHuLXb0s) . Stuart Moxham's most famous project.
Stuart Moxham & Louis Philippe "The Huddle House" (youtu.be/YOYuSyNuiVE) . Welshman & Frenchman perform former's quiet meditation.
Enya "Caribbean Blue" (youtu.be/EeYL3uhYv48) One of the most gorgeous of many examples of Eithne Nà Bhraonáin's waltz-like dreamsongs
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Moya Brennan "Caidé Sin Do'n Té Sin" (youtu.be/ReWyzVfjYmg). Even a bit of mic feedback can't mar Maire's marvelous melodiousness.
One can indeed celebrate everything. Some do it thru transcendental religious yearnings. I do it thru tweeting everything that's touched me.
Junip "To The Grain" (youtu.be/QnrMLKJr7eY) . Also from "Fields." I love playing this on my Zune while walking in peace, in nature
Junip "Always" (youtu.be/BYB0iEiOuzs) . Jose Gonzales, Tobias Winterkorn, Elias Araya. From their stunning LP "Fields"
Jose Gonzalez "Heartbeats" (youtu.be/s4_4abCWw-w) . One of today's most brilliant guitar-singers, a la Jansch. Argentinian-Swedish
Pentangle "Travelling Song" (youtu.be/_q9of8OhkeQ) . Bert Jansch on guitar/vocal. Jacqui McShee & he harmonize hi-lo gorgeously. 1968
Bert Jansch "Angie" (youtu.be/RqjUWJtH88c). "Needle Of Death" (youtu.be/V-HkBak9lmM). "Poison" (youtu.be/jwH6RuBIsFY)
RIP Bert Jansch. Scottish acoustic guitar stylist extraordinaire. Warm, expressive fingering, and he sang with a richly melodic brogue.
Roadtrips work certain muscles. Workouts work others. I feel it when I'm back. In my back.
Notice how TV news zooms str8taway 2 Twitter comments on events. Seldom to Facebook, which tune into 4 human interest fluff & privacy scares
Hey vendors, cut out the public trashtalk re your rivals. Trashtalk pollutes what should should be a clear stream of solid mkt intelligence.
Let's split diff btwn Nobel & Macarthur prizes. Recognize accomplishments across all scientific, creative & biz areas. Trash the cash awards
Nobel's legacy to the world: treating any science that's not physics, chemistry or economics as unworthy of recognition; lit as the only art
I have not seen a single elegy of Jobs that mentions Macintosh or Apple II. I guess the PC era is truly over. Mass culture has forgotten.
I'm not doing #Microsoft PASS next week, but I've been prebriefed. All I can say at this moment is they're addressing #BigData
"That 70s Show" rerun. Danny Masterson wearing Rolling Stones '75 tour Tshirt identical 2 one I bought @ their Cobo gig. Eagle or hawk image
Today was nonstop phone calls, and tomorrow too. To counterbalance the 2 days of nonstop face2face I did earlier in the week.
@Forr_biz_proc: Help us improve Forrester's Biz Process Community by taking short member feedback survey!! bit.ly/p6zWrl #BPM #CRM #HRM #ERP
Hey #Hadoop vendors, your "commitment" is both 1) yer commitment of financial resources and 2) yer commitment of code back 2 Apache Hdp comm
Briefed earlier today by #CrowdFlower, which uses crowdsourcing for data classify, tag, analyze, & enrich tasks that need human judgment
Agility = enabling velocity & variety in your responses without inefficiency, ineffectiveness, friction, or fragility
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan from Bringing It All Back Home JK--Beautifully compressed serious-goofy mash
Catch me Nov 1 @ Building Business Capabilities conf, Ft Lauderdale, speaking on "Agile Predictive Process Platforms" (bit.ly/ctO0gk)
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp So Long, Farewell by Actors Playing Von Trapp Family Singers from The Sound of Music Movie Soundtrack JK--Free bird!
Hmmm....Jobs needs special recognitions at Oscars (for Pixar), Grammies (iPod), phone industry (iPhone), & CTIA (iPhone/iPad).
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Town Called Malice by The Jam from Snap! JK--Town's never been happy with name. Founded in 1682 by Jedediah Malice
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Weight by The Band from Music From Big Pink JK--Recently covered by yrs trly & @merv at #tdpug11 tweetenanny!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Punk Rock Girl by The Dead Milkmen from Beelzebubba JK--Error! "California Dreamin'" is Mamas & Papas, not Beach Boys
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Lithium by Nirvana JK--Ah, too heavy. Hydrogen is more my cup of tea.
Ah, herbal tea, herbal tea, wild as a wild berry is all I dare to be.
Jobs' accomplishments were considerable, but the mythmaking surrounding him is getting out of hand.
You know the Academy Awards "in memoriam" segment next year must absolutely include Pixar pioneer Steve Jobs.
What's the deal with Ellison & Benioff?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Will Follow by U2 from Boy JK--Theme song of social media lurkers everywhere.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Svefn-g-englar by Sigur Ros from Agaetis Byrjun JK--Essentially, spooky Jonsi howling "it's you" for several minutes
"Steve Jobs Dies. A Revolution Ends" (bit.ly/pHuDWA) JK--Um, no. The gadgetmania revolution proceeds apace. He played big role.
Vendor missed a Wave deadline because she was giving birth. That is a very good excuse. Glad her priorities are straight.
Andrew Bird "Tenuousness" (youtu.be/NB7cuA-fv4w) JK--Legacy is a very tenuous thing. "Thank the heavens for their elasticity."
Steve Jobs built good products that people like and bought in droves. Try not to gloss over his mistakes. That would dishonor his memory.
This is one of those extraordinarily rare moments in the high-tech industry when everybody suddenly pauses & reflects on someone's passing.
Eva Cassidy "Over the Rainbow" (youtu.be/7l8tB__vlsg) JK--Singer died young of cancer. She took a classic & made shine even brighter
Marianne Faithfull "As Tears Go By" (youtu.be/FhPPJ5dolxU) JK--Yes, have a good cry. You will feel better for it.
Vashti Bunyan "Train Song" (youtu.be/0AGD78mWcss) JK--1966. Ineffably sad. Feels like an autumn day when youve lost someone important
I expect that Apple will name the new spaceship HQ for Jobs. Not a tough call.
"IT industry shrinks as employer in last decade" (bit.ly/pWpjgj) JK--Wow! We really are doing much more with less (labor).
Jobs' passing now totally consumes the high-tech news cycle, pushing the Oracle & Teradata announcements out of people's immediate thoughts
Slowly but surely, YouTube is becoming my primary TV channel.
Jeff & Jane Hudson "PCP" (youtu.be/87n0F4ZdL7g) JK--Same EP as the two others I just tweeted. J&J Hudson never got their due.
Jeff & Jane Hudson "The Girl From Ipanema" (youtu.be/GKA6tx_xtFc) JK--Same EP as "Information." Samba electronica. Cuts a narcogroov
Jeff & Jane Hudson "Information" (youtu.be/BG7i8awBBfs). JK--1981. Boston duo. I bought this awesome electronica EP. Still got vinyl
Jefferson Airplane "Plastic Fantastic Lover" (youtu.be/zHC9NANKluU) JK--Computers seemed sinister in 1967. Till the hippies toked 'em
Kraftwerk "Pocket Calculator" (youtu.be/eSBybJGZoCU) JK--Converge pop computing & music. Beatles' Apple tried. Jobs' Apple succeeded
Do you think Apple will move toward a more open architecture now that Jobs has passed away?
Jobs very literally was the next Disney. Pixar is the dominant CGI animation studio, and, of course, Disney bought it. Eisner less important
Yes, PCs, MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets were on the market before Jobs & Co jumped in. But he created most distinctive brand in each
Now we will truly see Jobs' legacy. The culture of daring and innovation he established. Can it truly survive him, or has Apple now peaked?
Here's an odd juxta this week. The rollout of the iPhone 4S to yawns & comment on post-Jobs Apple. Suddenly, it's now truly post-Jobs.
For the record, though, I've never bought an Apple product. I am considering getting an iPad, though. Doesn't mean I think they're not good
Jobs. Part of what's sobering is the thought that the great people of my generation are starting to pass into history.
Jobs' funeral. I'll bet there will be an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod, and a Mac orchestrating some special Apple-centric narrative of his life.
Jobs. Spawned an industry. His surname itself was a portent of economic boom. Stoked innovation, designed new patterns for living & grooving
Sad sad sad, but, obviously, not unexpected. I was saying 2 @robinbloor yesterday that Jobs death imminent. Didnt think it would be next day
RIP Steve Jobs. A true pioneer. This is obviously a hugely sad moment for high-tech and world culture. It's like Disney dying.
Returned home to a warmer, sunnier DC than the one I left. Now, this is my kind of October day (and night)
I'm still reeling from the "appliance" religion wars of yore. True and false appliances and all that jazz.
Apparently, Ellison treating "cloud" as a religion of sorts now, with "false" ones to beware.
Herding my backlog of email into folders for later reading & disposition. I feel like corralling 'em into place w/ "git along li'l dogies!"
Yes, #Forrester certainly does. We have analysts looking at professional services. I provide the DW focus. Engage us.
The recorded female voice overhead is same as voice at DCA. Surprised they didn't process it thru a twangifier before going live in north TX
Hey airports, you notify us of flight delays. Why not also post metric of your current wi-fi latencies, scale from "schweet" to "stinx."
American Eagle plane parked at DFW. Huge crazy black propellers. Explain those.
Connecting at DFW. Riding airport skytrain. Skyscrapers on horizon. Is that Dallas or Fort Worth?
Hey airlines, please alert us at start of flight to presence of seat electrical outlets.
Vendors struggle with catchall GTM terms such as #Bigdata & #Cloud . It's to look past these and drill straight into the details.
Smack dab in the middle of the #DW #BI #DBMS industry announcement season. No shockers so far.
The founding myths of many tribes attribute some special virtue, wisdom, prowess, or competency to the founder.
Source of the phrase "speed of thought"? Perhaps a Lexis-Nexis search is in order.
@dianterry I strongly suspect that most IT CEOs have ghostwriters. Those who write their own books are rarely original in their thinking.
Remember that your social style is your style of expression, not 4 convenience of those who may or may not follow U on one or more channels
@dianterry I never claimed it's original to Ellison. It's not original to Gates either, I believe.
@dianterry What about Gates' book? Do you want to offer some thoughts on it? I never read it.
I don't know about you, but I think way faster than I type or even speak. Hence, I have plenty of pent-up thoughts awaiting expression.
"Oracle Unleashes the 'Speed of Thought'" (bit.ly/ot26zh) JK--One Oracle rep said it's "speed U can type" (or click). Not same thing
"Microsoft: Zune HD is dead" (zd.net/mRVMk1) JK--Discontinued, yes, but dead,no. My Zune HD is my trusty travel music-tweet companion
@ddelmoli And if you process and filter the data correctly, according to the most exacting quality standards, it'll perk your #BI right up!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Blonde on Blonde by Nada Surf from Let Go JK--Coolest song ever that contemplates an entire Dylan 2-disc gatefold LP
"Facebook and Netflix Test Appetite For Change" (bit.ly/pA5azl) JK--Like wedge issues in politics, wedge enhancements sow seeds of h8
My favorite Starbucks beverage is a venti plain coffee. My favorite Starbucks food is a ripe plain banana. I'm a simple man, really.
Next best action. The business proving ground for advanced math & stat. Embedded solvers for pieces of a problem called process.
Machine learning. Because your data scientists are smart, but they cant work while theyre asleep. Androids do indeed dream of electric sheep
Will be good to get a deeper dive into the #Oracle #Hadoop appliance. I'm sure they've got their hands full this week up in SF.
Listening to The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army." Jack White wields his axe like he's writing an electric vibe on the air in bold cursive.
Listening to Tift Merritt "Virginia, No One Can Warn You." Superb country-rock vibe. Ah, the tacos have arrived.
Listening to Talk Talk "Life's What You Make It" from their gr8st. Anheuser-Busch used in commercial 20+ years ago. Tonight, let it be ice T
#tdpug11 was well-run, as always. #Teradata has an awesome AR and events staff.
Listening to Sufjan Stevens "Jacksonville" from "Illinoise." At Rockin' Baja Coastal Cantina. Trying not to think of Old Hickory.
Enough fine food. Find me coarse food. Not too many courses, mind you.
Listening to The New Pornographers "Sing Me Spanish Techno" from "Twin Cinema." No hay ninguna palabra de espanol en esta cancion.
Listening to Modest Mouse "Float On" from "Good News For People Who Love Bad News." "Well we'll float on good news is on the way."
Listening 2 Jefferson Airplane "Plastic Fantastic Lover" from "SP." "The electrical dust is starting 2 rust her trapezoid thermometer taste"
Listening to Camera Obscura "James." I distinctly recall listening to this a few years ago in La Jolla.
Listening to Camera Obscura "My Maudlin Career" on a pleasant post-work evening during my career. Joggers pass me on Harbor Drive.
Most of the industry's top #EDW analysts were at #tdpug11
#tdpug11 #Teradata Graham showing DW thruput testing #s on data loading & DSS jobs on 6680 vs. 5650 re all-SSD vs. all-HDD. Great discussion
#tdpug11 #Teradata Graham: 12 SSDs (on 5650 node) outperform 188 HDDs (prior config) by "a tiny margin" on queries per min per node
#tdpug11 TASM allocates jobs among available #Teradata CPUs; TVS migrates data among available storage cylinders.
jameskobielus jameskobielus
#tdpug11 #Teradata Graham: More customers moving to 35% SSD
#tdpug11 #Teradata Graham: in data temp analysis, 20% of data on avg is hot, 40% is warm, 40% cold.
RT @teradatanews: #Teradata Unity for async, near-real-time replication across TD systems. #TDPUG11 bit.ly/qfZCUg JK--Leverages Xkoto
#tdpug11 Daniel Graham: #Teradata "will have 1-2 more generations of hard-disk-only systems" before SSD in all platforms.
@strukhoff All I remember about my SAT scores was being in 99th percentile across board. Didnt give much mind. Didnt ask others about theirs
For the record, I don't recall my Klout score, forgot to remember my Myers/Briggs four-letter ratings, & am clueless what my IQ might be.
LinkedIn suggests I reconnect with myself. Odd. Some might say I'm already too self-involved. Must keep my distance from the man in mirror
"EMC Tailors Storage Systems For Big Data" (bit.ly/pvyv17) JK--They're not alone. IBM, HP, Dell, NetApp, others doing the same.
@duncan3ross Sleep is a relative thing in conference season. Sleep is whenever your poor battered nervous system simply must shut down.
By the way, everybody, #Hadoop is in heavy eval at many companies, but only a small proportion of those have it in production. Reality check
"Oracle's Big Data Chutzpah" (bit.ly/mZZlAu) JK--Clearly, needs 2 match #EMC #Greenplum appliance that combines #Hadoop , RDBMS & DI
@duncan3ross I enjoy working. Traveling is something I often need to do to work to maximum effectiveness. I also enjoy sleeping at day's end
"Facebook Advertising Gets Faster & More Effective with Proprietary Analytic Engine from Clickable" (prn.to/r4wwRW) JK--Brief me pls
Want to thank #Oracle AR/PR for the emails with links to all zillion press releases from #oow11. Much I was prebriefed on, but these useful
This has been challenging few days. Covering one show I'm physically at (#tdpug11) & another 500 miles north (#oow11). Lots of stuff at both
"Hassle Maps: The Genesis Of Demand" (bit.ly/pZftat) JK--Cool charting of bad experiences. Thanks 2 @bpmfocus aka Derek Miers for ref
Cool announcmnts re #Hadoop #MapReduce & R at #oow11, but conspicuously missing R mentions of future of Oracle Data Miner & predictive apps
"Microsoft zapping Zune music player" (bit.ly/oi2YTk) JK--This was announced months ago. What's with the 2nd death notice?
@johnlmyers44 @merv @Claudia_Imhoff #tdpug11 Woulda called it "Tweetapalooza," but think folk-ish vibe more professional than a grungy one
Very much enjoying and learning from my conversations with #Teradata, their partners, & their customers at #tdpug11.
"Oracle rolls out 'Big Data' appliance" (bit.ly/pDKZiO) JK--For POV on "full enterprise-ready Hadoop platform," see upcoming Wave
Rain, now sun. Clouds with many blue breaks. Comforting breezes. Early October. San Diego.
My hunch is that "kumbaya" and "hakuna matata" mean the same thing. "No worries for the rest of your days." Of course, each a passing craze
@merv #tdpug11 My pleasure. It was all quite kumbayafied.
@scottswigart #oow11 I have no idea how #Oracle is pricing #Exalytics. They have not provided that detail.
Motion-sensor-driven public restrooms have spoiled us. When they're not present, we stand there like fools aw8ng water, soap, paper, & flush
If the devil's always in the details, does that mean the angels are always in cloudy abstractions?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Galang / M.I.A. by M.I.A. from Arular JK--Cute voice takes the sting out of even her most strident sentiments.
"Oracle commits 2 'parallel everything' arch for Exadata, Exalogic" (zd.net/o1apMU) JK--Notice how "faster" claims lack "than what"
"Oracle Execs Engage In Competitive 'Trash Talk' At OpenWorld" (bit.ly/oGYaRz) JK--Also referred 2 "good friends" at those vendors.
"D.C. near bottom of ‘manliest’ U.S. cities list" (wapo.st/ripfoI) JK--This a put-on? U noticed Wash Monument? Classic phallic symbol
"Earth without art is just 'eh." Thanks to some #KEXP listener whose name I didn't catch.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney from the album Dig Me Out JK--The ladies who consistently shredded it.
Speed of thought is too damn slow. I want all our electronic contraptions & contrivances to exceed our wetware's speed limits. Out-think us!
"Oracle's Big Data Appliance taps growing enterprise need, analysts say" (bit.ly/q8sK5U) JK--Expect ramped-up #Hadoop #NoSQL M&A
Narrative is hypnosis. Somebody offered that great thought at the party last night. I was so hypnotized by the thought I forgot who said it
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp 96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians JK--First 2 include punctuation in name & wield Farfisa organ like audio punctuation
Comical chatbots (bit.ly/rsLvuB) . Have to harness this force for mass entertainment. I'm serious. No, seriously, I'm serious.
Dear bot: when multiple parties DM that "I saw a real bad blog about you, you seen this?", I wonder why they care.
Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg) JK--Punk classic that became unexpected mainstream rock smash in 1991.
Lynn Anderson "Rose Garden" (youtu.be/WO4wcNVbYOQ) JK--Great country hit that hugely crossed over to popcharts in 1973.
Desmond Dekker "Israelites" (youtu.be/83Y2hv-3UCM) JK--1968. First charting of reggae song on US airwaves. It's been rare since then
The Shirelles "Foolish Little Girl" (youtu.be/8zAX5StHD6A) JK--Not a huge hit, but hugely great.
The Toys "Lovers Concerto" (youtu.be/aGDZc9bdUZM) JK--1965. The only Bach tune ever performed on "Hullabaloo." I remember this.
The Jaynetts "Sally, Go Round the Roses" (youtu.be/2PePXnXxRGE) JK--1963. Also chek out Grace Slick's great '66 cover w/Great Society
Lene Lovich "Lucky Number" (youtu.be/KnIJOO__jVo) JK--British. Grew up partly in Detroit. Greeted us at Bookie's "good 2 B home"
Split Enz "I Got You" (youtu.be/xv6oOxn1axw) JK--The Finn brothers. Essentially, begot Crowded House.
Scritti Politti "Skank Bloc Bologna" (youtu.be/8NX2L0uwn_M) JK--Noise-art late 70s incarnation. Band totally changed to pop in 80s
Pere Ubu "The Modern Dance" (youtu.be/TUf7UCnRl6c) JK--Ubu has always been the smelly stogey of acquired musical tastes. Enjoy alone
#tdpug11 Tweetananny with @merv @jameskobielus @bitterer @Claudia_Imhoff @NeilRaden @dmenningervr @williammcknight @juliebhunt @Kalido_CEO
RT @Kalido_CEO: @merv @jameskobielus swing and singing yfrog.com/kljkrxlj
Hootenanny in sight of the pineapple ship.
Only Zappa LP we ever bought, "Overnite Sensation," with "Movin' To Montana." Only Grateful Dead, "American Beauty," with "Truckin'"
A regular hootenanalyst, dontcha know!
@merv leading the analyst hootenanny.
That was a good upperbody massage at the rooftop analyst party @ Stingaree, downtown San Diego. #Teradata chose venue well. She pressed deep
Joan Baez "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (youtu.be/nnS9M03F-fA) JK--Admit guys. Your kumbaya dreams had a bit of Joan in them.
Coven "One Tin Soldier" (youtu.be/qswm7lHp7oY) JK--Get past your squeamish self-righteous "Billy Jack" memories. Just a great song.
Kyu Sakamoto "Sukiyaki" (youtu.be/mvuO0BsEEss) JK--Wanna learn Japanese so I can sing the original lyric to this bewitching melody.
Os Mutantes "A Minha Menina" (youtu.be/SEpSFOibJho) JK--Great odd psyche-samba-doowop-rock stuff from Brazil. 1968.
Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" (youtu.be/p3j2NYZ8FKs) JK--One of many great moody electropop groups from 80s Britain.
Sting "Englishman In New York" (youtu.be/d27gTrPPAyk) JK--Did anybody vet his "legal alien" claim before Mr. Stingaree released this?
Fleet Foxes "He Doesn't Know Why" (youtu.be/brZTvGIzeGg) JK--He definitely does know why, if by "he" U mean me & "why" I love the FFs
The Shins "New Slang" (youtu.be/zYwCmcB0XMw) JK--Just came down with my recurring Shins jones.
@dennishafley Assume #Oracle already got lotsa Exalytics "eval" units in customer hands, essentially free, while searches 4 sweetspot price
#tdpug11 Brobst discuss data scientist vs data ninja vs analytics developer vs quant. "Data ninja"? Teenagers, mutants, and/or turtles?
Thanks. I shoulda known. Would be easier for everybody if nomenclature referenced power of 10, e.g. Zettabyte = bytes to the 21st
Power prefixes. Kilo to 3rd. Mega to 6th. Giga, 9th. Tera, 12th. Peta, 15th. What's prefix for 10 to the 18th?
Zettabyte = ten to the twenty-first bytes. 21st power. We're in the 21st century. Easy mnemonic.
Ab Initio. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that the name is Latin for "no marketing collateral."
"This is the voice of the sand. The sailors understand. There is far more sea than sand. There is far more sea than sand." --David Thomas
San Diego Convention Center. For one week every summer this becomes Intergalactic Nerd Central.
@weckerson See you here in San Diego, Wayne. Safe travels.
#HP closes the #Autonomy deal. Now, let's see if they can do something interesting with it and other recent acq #Vertica. We shall see.
Oracle Exalytics BI Machine (bit.ly/q4oOAI). TimesTen in-mem DB + OBIEE + Essbase + SunFire server. How expensive, BTW?
Saw my bud @joemckendrick here at #tdpug11. He and I did #Hadoop Tuesday first installment with #informatica #cloudera
#tdpug11 "Attensity Delivers Real-Time Social Analytics on Aster MR Platform" (bit.ly/rsVTbV). In-db proc w/further joint dev ongoing
#tdpug11 "Teradata Automates and Simplifies Analytical Ecosystem Management" (bit.ly/q4TxoW). Unity, Data Mover, MSM, Viewpoint, DB
#tdpug11 #Teradata announces 2690 DW appliance (bit.ly/mTxrBg). GA Q1 2012. Scales up to 343 TB. In-db analytics, including R
@MrHoratioSanz #quiteDecentProposal I'm sure Demi's mulling over your kind offer, Horatio.
Interviewed by email by @chriskanaracus of #IDG re the Oracle announcements, especially the #Hadoop ones, today.
#tdpug11 Gnau notes that Aster Data database available as software package, as cloud/SaaS, and as new appliance.
#tdpug11 Gnau discussing Aster Data 5.0 with SQL-MapReduce.
#tdpug11 Gnau says #Teradata cutomer eBay has 84-petabyte data warehouse. Not too shabby.
#tdpug11 #Teradata Unity leverages the acquired Xkoto database virtualization technology.
#tdpug11 Gnau discussing #Teradata Unity performance mgt features: intelligent query mgt, multi-sys sync, always-on, in-db SQL multicast
#tdpug11 Gnau discussing many performance, resource utilization, and workload mgt advantages of new #Teradata 14 DB
RT @CurtMonash: Is ORCL NoSQL really just key-value store, w/out any sort of doc/obj model? That would be soooo 2010. #oow11 JK--Seems to be
"Oracle Optimizes Integ Btwn ORCL Apps & Oracle Exadata Db Machine & Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud" (bit.ly/nv8qSC) JK--Not RTD?
#tdpug11 Gnau discussing hybrid row- and column-based data storage in #Teradata DB v14.
#tdpug11 Gnau discussing new #Teradata DW Appliance 2690, "greener," higher performance. Teradata Columnar for hi-perf query, hi-compression
#tdpug11 Scott Gnau, pres #Teradata Labs, speaking now. "Data equity" to unlock value of customer data.
#tdpug11 #Teradata #Aprimo #AsterData will deliver targeted (next best) offers to all conf attendees while we're here. Cool. New product?
#tdpug11 #Teradata video preso has both Aster Data founders: Tasso Argyros & Mayank Bawa. Among my fave #BigData visionaries in vendor space
@mcgoverntheory #oracle #hadoop #oow11 #cio Yep. Which is why I withhold judgment on what Oracle's doing till they brief me in detail.
Dear people who program these video marketing pitches 4 conf keynote mainstage projection: tone down the boom-a-dee-booming please. Headache
#tdpug11 McDonald discussing "data scientists." In-vogue new job description that is one part multivar stat modeler, one part BI developer.
#tdpug11 Darryl McDonald speaking. Very effective speaker.
#tdpug Koehler emphasizes that #Teradata very focused on growing its consulting force. One of largest DW-focused consultilng forces in world
#tdpug11 Koehler: "first and foremost we're focused on DW." Adding "2 huge opportunities": #Bigdata (w/Aster) & marketing apps (w/Aprimo)
#tdpug11 Koehler discussing Aprimo end2end marketing solution. Available as on-premise and SaaS/cloud offerings.
#tdpug11Koehler sez marketing is key segment #Teradata going after. Aprimo is its core brand there. "Marketing in position 2 lead analytics"
#tdpug11 Koehler discussing #Teradata workload-specific DWs: Active Integr DW (6650/6680), DW Appiiance (2690)… (cont) deck.ly/~D4Okd
#tdpug11 Koehler: 2 key trends going forward: 1) analytics more important than ever, 2) data is exploding
#tdpug11 Whoops. I listed Claraview twice.
#tdpug11 Koehler discussing Claraview, Xkoto, Kickfire, Aprimo, Aster Data, and Claraview acquisitions.
#tdpug Koehler: Teradata growing on every level.
#tdpug11 Mike Koehler, Teradata CEO, discussing progress and directions for company as a whole.
#oow11 So my hunch was correct. #Oracle has jumped into the #Hadoop market with an appliance.
"Oracle Unveils the Oracle Big Data Appliance" (bit.ly/qBnGPQ) JK--Apache #Hadoop, Oracle NoSQL Databas… (cont) deck.ly/~H6FJf
#tdpug11 @markmadsen And I've trademarked "ana," so every female in the world with that given name must pay me royalties. Now.
#tdpug11 Extended video of Loblaws, Canada's largest grocery chain, big #Teradata user, leveraging #BigData to optimize loyalty program
#tdpug11 #BigData was the theme of the opening dance number. I would have preferred they orchestrate the beauty of MPP & ETL, but oh well.
#tdpug11 @NeilRaden @maslett & yrs trly wonderd why so many cute young ladies in audience. Then dance routine onstage began. Now clear why
#tdpug11 Got some bandwidth again. Keeping computer powered. Erin Redshaw, pres Partners Steering Committee, speaking. With Loblaw Cos Ltd
#tdpug11 Keynote in just a sec. Saw @dmenninger @NeilRaden @prussom @merv @maslett Mike Schiff
#Tdpug11 show begins and wi-fi goes down. Turning off computer. Will tweet from phone
Not at #Oow11 . Am at #Tdpug11 . Will be happy to comment on either. Been prebriefed on all.
RT @Lager: #oow11 "Catherine Zetta-Byte. There, I've said it." JK--And I've got a jones for some serious scalability. There, I've said it.
RT @OracleHeretic: "Wow! Joe said the "v" word. I.e. VMware" . #oow11 JK--Oh. So what? Thought had something to do with "V***** Monologues"
"Oracle Enters #BI w/Exalytics" #OOW11 (bit.ly/ruXFRe bit.ly/fQeFxT) JK--Huh? Check yr facts. ORCL been in #BI space for years
#tdpug11 Keynotes start 27 minutes from now. The Wi-Fi is good and strong. Knock on wood. You'll see plenty of content tweeting from me.
"Dead scientist awarded Nobel in medicine" (yhoo.it/qA3nl3) JK--Bigger tragedy if take away. Are good deeds null&void upon yr demise?
RIP Robert Whitaker. Photographed famous "butcher" photo pulled from Beatles "Yesterday & Today." Coolest thing is Fab Four approved it.
Now down to #tdpug11 , San Diego Convention Center. Badge pickup. Breakfast. Milling about.
@CurtMonash I've determined through ego-surfing my overseas quotations that I'm fluent in Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese.
Now with #SAP #HANA & #Oracle #Exalytics in the market, I expect #IBM #Netezza #Cognos to have an in-memory BI appliance in coming year.
Really? The capital of Idaho is pronounced "boy-see" not "boy-zee." I prefer the mispronunciation.
"Oracle rigs MySQL for NoSQL-like access" (bit.ly/ntVm9T) JK--Leverages Memcached.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor from I Do Not Want Wot I Havnt Got JK--Sounds like vendr boast. Benchmark it!
"Ellison unveils 'Exalytics' in-memory machine" (bit.ly/qLrnxv) JK--Why's #Oracle always frame perf claims in powers of ten? Real #s?
@sscdotopen Looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
Watching Ken Burns' "Prohibition" on PBS. Right now, pre-Prohibition. Post-Civil War. Dirty immigrants. LIke my ancestors.
Elvis Costello sighting at ice cream place in NW DC. WashPost reports: "he looks just like himself." Stop the presses! Rockstar actual human
See tweet just before this one.
Asti Ristorante, 728 5th Ave, SD CA. You deserve the plug, and the tip I'm inscribing with pen.
Steve Martin said something cool in article in Delta inflight mag. He said tweets are a new form of expression. Feel around the edges of it.
My tweets have only just begun to live, white lace and promises, a kiss for luck and we're on our way. Wine almost done.
Listening to Cat Power "The Greatest." Thinking of several emails I need to send.
Karen Carpenter's fate disabused me of the notion that I can truly know a singer from their voice. It's an artifice. So are these tweets.
Reporters are encouraged to call for quotes and thoughts. My mobile's in my email signatures. In another life, I put new poetry there too.
Taxi driver was serious jerk coming from airport. Good meal and this sparkly vino have brought my head back to an easy space.
"And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain."
In my oh so very humble opinion, SF's Fisherman's Wharf doesn't hold a candle, dining-wise, to SD's Gaslamp Quarter.
Saving that pinot grigio for long lazy sipping. Everything But The Girl "We Walk The Same Line."
Restaurateur asked if I'm enjoying meal. I gave a thumbs-up. J. Geils Band "Centerfold."
Saw Dave Menninger at Hilton checkin. He watched Patriot game on plane on way out to San Diego. I worked on #Hadoop Wave til battery drained
The salmon has arrived. Johnny Cash "Jackson."
Over my shoulder, a signed photo of Judy Collins. Darn. Don't have hers handy. Listening to Ramones "Oh, Oh, I Love Her So."
Wonderful, huge medieval painting on brick wall of this place. Looks like battlements. Listening to Sheryl Crow "First Cut is The Deepest"
Italian place. San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter has finest Italian food & so many choices. Swedish looking maitre d'. Listening 2 ABBA "Fernando"
Enigmatic overheard one-sided San Diego downtown cellphone convo: "I broke up with you, and, besides, I showed you those f-ing pictures."
Quiet Sunday night in downtown San Diego. Get me to the Gaslamp Quarter pronto for some fine dining. Galleries probably closed by now.
Why go to the actual shows if I have what I need in advance to do my job? Key consideration: deeper engagements face to face.
I've been prebriefed on key #Oracle & #Teradata announcmts due to hit this week at their respective shows. I'll comment when each announces
My fave pastime on flights is listening to backlog of #KEXP and #NPR podcasts. Battery lasts much longer than laptop.
Next best thing to first class is exit row with ample legroom. I prefer to eat on the ground anyway.
In the midst of an #EDW appliance price war, why is #Oracle not announcing more aggressive pricing for #Exadata or #Exalytics ?
I'm not worrying about #Oracle ability to build or sell them. But they have no strong solution push for analytic appliances.
A bit disappointed that #Oracle has not announced more industry solution appliances built on #Exadata Intelligent Warehouse #oow11
Is this Minneapolis or Anneapolis? I don't see the Chesapeake, so must be the former.
RT @MrkWlsn: Exadata, then Exalogic, Now the Launch of the Oracle BI Machine: "Exalytics" #OOW11 JK--But no Exa-NextBestAction appliances
RT @frank_dorst All Exa machines in one row: Exadata, Sprclstr, Exalytics, DB Appli, etc. Why? #oow11 JK--Missing Exalogic. DB Appl not Exa
RT @gwenshap: Customer just talked about migration to Exalogic. First time I hear about one deployed. #oow11
Thank you dear spammer for offering me a gross dinner at an unpleasant eating establishment on you. Very kind of you.
The challenge I extend 2 #Oracle re #Exalytics appliance is same extend 2 #SAP re #HANA: show me the reference customers & lemme speak 2 em
@amsounds #KEXP It's a small world. I've been listening for almost 10 years. This coming February marks it. Started when I got broadband.
#Oracle Exalytics also calls out the growing importance of the open-source alternative-- #Hadoop & #R --in the Big Data analytics arena.
#Oracle Exalytics. Clearly, their attempt to do #SAP HANA one better. The rich analytic library is just as important as the all-in-mem arch.
If we all spoke like flight attendants, we'd remember to put all electronic appliances in the off positions before leaving home.
Segway Human Transporter. The only humans I see them transporting anymore are those in the law enforcement biz.
So are they protesting in favor of a theocracy? Somehow I doubt it.
People clogging Wall Street imagine they're sending a message. If anything, their message is "we can add more misery 2 a sorry econ outlook"
When setting film in fictional foreign cntry, best 2 leave unnamed rather than giv fake name (eg Jerqistan) tht dstroys ilusion could B real
Flying to San Diego today for #tdpug . See you there.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles from Magical Mystery Tour JK--Lennon's poetic musical masterpiece.
Rick Perry & racially offensive name of his west Texas property. Watcha wanna bet never would have changed it if hadn't gone into politics?
Social media gives influence. Yeah, sure. How many people have started listening to #KEXP just because I tweet about it?
RIP Sylvia Robinson. One-half of 50s' Mickey & Sylvia "Love Is Strange." More important, godmother of hip-hop. Founded Sugar Hill Records.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Jackie Blue by AM & Shawn Lee from Celestial Electric JK--Funky new cover updating a great 70s song.
Checked out "Da Ali G Show" on YouTube. Explain to us how the guests didn't know this was a put-on from the very first lamebrain question.
Saw "Incendies" on DVD last night. Excellent 2010 film about war-ravaged lives in the Middle East--and Quebec.
If it weren't for prostitution, drugs, & Nazis, people would have no points of comparison for the things they despise.
"You Love Your iPhone." (nyti.ms/nAH6ab) JK--Comparing everything 2 drugs makes drugs seem less dangerous. Stop the madness!
When mute is on, somebody doing airquotes is quoting pure air.
CNN story on Sesame Street "making math exciting." Elmo helping toddlers get up to speed on differential calculus.
Best scene in any Woody Allen film was the one of him alone in "Manhattan," listing things that make him happy. Counterweight to anhedonia.
Morcheeba. The original trio with Skye was sort of like a turn-of-century Eurythmics. I badly want that Morcheeba back on scene.
Discovering fresh talent. Learn to appreciate each new experience on it own terms. Learn to how to feed on their enthusiasm. Learn 2 groove.
"College rock" Wazzat? Recog of period when large # of peeps formd indep judgmnts of what rocks their various lives. I prefer "indie" minded
Thinking about duality, polarity, tao, yin/yang, & good/evil. Each side evals the other & depreca8s. Hence, epistemology of who's what fuzzy
The community picnic rained out. Hope clement for reschedule a week from today. Wanna meet folks and, yes, eat.
Colony House Furniture, Arlington, goin outa biz. Notable gray bldg, Lee Hwy, visible frm I-66 near Rosslyn. Someone do something cool w it!
"Moneyball" synopsis said ballteam GM focused on onbase pct vs slug pct. Smart. Game's mostly grind, punctuated by drama. Walks&HBPs matter
First longsleeve day of season in DC. Jacket too. Zipped up. Grab umbrella. Stay indoors.
Haven't seen or read "Moneyball" but synopsis makes clear. Discover acquire & unlock undervalued assets. That's analytics, procuremt, & mgmt
She & Him "Thieves" (youtu.be/SeAgLIaHj0M) JK--My fave from Deschanel & Ward's second. The deepest vein of melancholy.
Of all my capitalism poems, this one makes me inordinately proud: THIMBLE Wee token of play, tough talisma… (cont) deck.ly/~5TShe
Small Faces "Itchycoo Park" (youtu.be/VJzcF0v1eOE) JK--It's all too fab!
Florence + The Machine "What The Water Gave Me" (youtu.be/am6rArVPip8) JK--Brilliant new one from young she of the powerful pipes.
Neko Case "If You Knew What I Knew" (youtu.be/DQHSVl5FAnI) JK--Fave brassy ladysinger now. Easy on eyes (youtu.be/HOtCEWmcunE)
10000 Maniacs "Candy Everybody Wants" (youtu.be/jORFcH5uAjM) JK--I totally want Natalie Merchant to make big brassy songs again.
