Books by Patricia Cornwell Port Mortuary I hadn’t listened to (or read) a novel in the Kay Scarpetta series in some time. The detective elements and the technology was entertaining but the emoting of the main character got annoyingly overwrought. The reading by Kate Burton was quite engaging. Books by Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum Series…
Author: Penelope Gordon
Japanese English Ad Copy
2012 Nov 28 Out of context this ad copy from a 2012 Nov 27 JShoppers.com email is reasonable… but when paired with photos of the product – a medium brown puffy down coat with burnt orange lining – is amusing. From the same email this ad copy is describing another puffy down coat – only…
Big Data, Predictive Analytics
DMS = database management system; MDM = master data management; ETL = Extract, Transform, Load; EMR = Elastic Map Reduce; “Big Data means Big Analytics” Hadoop Campaign management Mass storage Unstructured vs. structured data Simple and complex event processing Business analytics Data in motion Data-driven business Data wrangling Herd data-cats Web analytics Data collection Data…
Cloud Job Titles
From 2012 August 16 TECHEXPO held in Reston, VA “Positions for: • Cloud Solution Architects • Cloud Computing Engineers • Security Cloud Engineers • Cloud Java Application Developers • Lead Engineer – Transition to Cloud • Cloud Operations Project Managers • Cloud Software Developers • Information Systems Engineers • Cloud Operations Technicians • Cyber Architects…
European Fairy Tales
Aesop’s Fables Aesop’s Fables – A new translation by Laura Gibbs Excelsior Avenue Poetry Club in Oakland California is thanked in the Preface. xxiv – reference to Syriac fables Grimm Brothers The Juniper Tree and other tales from Grimm Vols 1 & 2 The original 1973 publication of The Juniper Tree and other tales from…
Controlling Your Bookshelves
Tsundoku. | Ramana’s Musings. The following Japanese word is a very useful one-word starting point to discussing a predilection bordering on affliction – particularly in earthquake country where a full bookcase is a potential wall of projectiles. I have two methods for keeping my bookshelves in check: (1) for each book I buy I must…
The trouble with socialists
Is America becoming a ‘socialist state’? 40 percent say yes. – CSMonitor.com. – 2012 July 30 Setting aside whether or not health care reform should be equated with socialism, why do so many Americans have issues with the word socialism? Maybe it’s because those same people (mistakenly) believe that America is capitalist society (when the…
Cloud Plays Big Role in SMB
Cloud Computing Plays Big Role in Small, Mid-Sized Businesses – Messaging and Collaboration. – 2012 Aug 13 This survey would be a lot more interesting if it looked at SMEs’ adoption of SaaS products and SaaS-enabled BPO for a large portion of their non-differentiating business processes. (File sharing and email are tools rather than business…
Impediments to Infrastructure Improvements
FoodEngineering August 2012. Though this article is about impediments food manufacturers face in making improvements to their plant infrastructure, the same could be said for the obstacles that a whole range of SMEs face in improving their IT enablement with cloud computing.
Rain Barrel Bear – YouTube
Rain Barrel Bear – YouTube. At least this bear emptying the rain barrel isn’t as damaging as the flooding caused by the raccoon who shoved aside the sump pump outside the downstairs french doors. After having the basement flooded twice and replacing a burned out sump pump, we caught the culprit in the act. The…