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The Twitter Diaries: September, 2011

October 1, 2011 Deirdre Straughan Leave a comment

(In reverse chron order.)

DeirdreS: RT @johnnysunshine: Got the #SmartOS build source out the door. Now it can be both used *and* built ( and custom …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119932288225124352

2011-09-30 23:36:46

DeirdreS: Time for video editing and tequila.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119918638479319042

2011-09-30 23:36:12

DeirdreS: @bdha We just nurture and custodiate it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119918496170770432

2011-09-30 22:30:04

DeirdreS: @maltron You’re coming? Yay! Please join us TuesdayÂ (I need a list of people flying in to make sure I invite everyone)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119901852669181953

2011-09-30 21:45:42

DeirdreS: @lucaconti @zite I’m not on Facebook to talk to brands. I go there for the people, and am getting fed up with the branding & advertising.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119890690388922368

2011-09-30 21:35:47

DeirdreS: @willsnow Aww, sorry to miss you. You can have a beer at Joyent whenever you’re back.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119888194547359744

2011-09-30 21:08:31

DeirdreS: @ryancnelson tell me someone is filming that!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119881333756538880

2011-09-30 20:18:20

DeirdreS: How to create a Virtual Machine in SmartOS – SmartOS Documentation – SmartOS Wiki
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119868701934751744

2011-09-30 19:53:50

DeirdreS: RT @mranney: @bcantrill finally got a Voxer test cluster on Joyent.

Cloud Analytics: holy shit. So good. I hope this makes you all r …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119862538757341185

2011-09-30 19:46:18

RT @_Apistia_: #Science. It works.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119860640797040640

2011-09-30 18:15:32

DeirdreS: @mayureshnirhali Great!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119837800257437696

2011-09-30 17:45:59

DeirdreS: @mayureshnirhali Coming here? If so, please join us! Â Would love to see you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119830364649832449

2011-09-30 17:22:16

DeirdreS: updated: SmartOS-Illumos-OpenIndiana Events – SmartOS Documentation – SmartOS Wiki
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119824393504440320

2011-09-30 17:06:06

DeirdreS: @old_sound Thanks for buying!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119820326292045825

2011-09-30 17:05:07

DeirdreS: @vTexan As long as you’re not all hat and no cattle #OOW11 #OOWHunt #EMCOracle
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119820078098292739

2011-09-30 16:36:50

DeirdreS: RT @lapsu: What I’m hearing at #surgecon is I should be using something called node.js & put it in the clouds. Did I get that right? – yes!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119812960427323392

2011-09-30 16:29:27

DeirdreS: RT @JIMF2113: New, friendlier version of SmartOS (with instructions) at smartos.org Check it out
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119811100849086464

2011-09-30 14:46:46

DeirdreS: RT @rosso: Saw recipe for “carbonara” made with short pasta & feta cheese that would induce strokes in most of my Italian friends.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119785263294713856

2011-09-30 14:40:27

DeirdreS: @lkateley Pick any Cantrill
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119783671648628736

2011-09-30 06:11:05

DeirdreS: @JeremyWeir Cute, but… the Ark is myth, the Titanic actually set to sea.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119655485069721602

2011-09-30 04:37:23

DeirdreS: @myinnervoice Hey, are coming to the party for our irrelevant OS? 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119631906206793728

2011-09-30 04:11:04

DeirdreS: @alexnobert And he didn’t even bring the cheerleaders. #surgecon
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119625281932759040

2011-09-30 04:10:23

DeirdreS: RT @alexnobert: It’s probably too early to call but I am feeling confident: @bcantrill won #surgecon.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119625111023263745

2011-09-30 04:04:49

DeirdreS: @DEVOPS_BORAT So… coming to our party next week?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119623708083109889

2011-09-30 03:56:10

DeirdreS: @jasonh “Friends don’t let friends use Linux” ?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119621533906898945

2011-09-30 02:22:38

DeirdreS: @faseidl You get to see @timminchin live? I am SOOOO jealous. He needs to come to San Francisco
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119597993690284033

2011-09-30 02:19:47

DeirdreS: @pborenstein I rarely tried “Cuz I said so,” and we’re not even Jewish (well, maybe the Tiemanns were forcibly converted back in Bavaria)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119597276481069057

2011-09-30 02:17:00

DeirdreS: @cwebber that would certainly be one example!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119596577626132480

2011-09-30 02:16:43

DeirdreS: @jamesdotcuff thank @johnnysunshine for that one, and for today’s new release
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119596505576382464

2011-09-30 00:26:42

DeirdreS: @jamesdotcuff hadn’t read your blog yet, but I will be sure to chastise you as appropriate. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119568816681385985

2011-09-29 23:41:38

DeirdreS: RT @gregkorgeski: Onion’s #CongressHostage is neither funny nor exaggerated if you work with desperate REAL ppl w/o healthcare…”let th …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119557476382277632

2011-09-29 23:36:48

DeirdreS: @ingenthr will bs great to see you!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119556261116256256

2011-09-29 23:36:02

DeirdreS: @hudsonette @thepapertyger @jenmontfort umm… Own several
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119556069776310273

2011-09-29 22:41:50

DeirdreS: RT @riccardo_iommi: @DeirdreS @bcantrill as a service, BCaaS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119542426917539840

2011-09-29 22:38:25

DeirdreS: RT @fabiorapposelli: RT @BradCasemore: @fabiorapposelli — Ellison and Berlusconi have a few things in common. < I’d say more than a few
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119541568637120512

2011-09-29 22:09:17

DeirdreS: I get extremely irritable when I see good equipment treated badly.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119534236070969344

2011-09-29 21:21:57

DeirdreS: RT @JonWChicago: Those Joyent boys woulda been huge in Vaudeville ! #surgecon
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119522324545417216

2011-09-29 20:48:23

DeirdreS: Meanwhile, back at the ranch, visitors are taking souvenir photos of @brendangregg
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119513876457992192

2011-09-29 20:46:27

DeirdreS: @jamesdotcuff Depends who you give it to.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119513390405263360

2011-09-29 20:44:02

DeirdreS: I think we need to start charging for @bcantrill ‘s presence at conferences.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119512784483528704

2011-09-29 20:42:05

DeirdreS: RT @xaprb: Moderating a panel at #surgecon tonight: Pushing Big Data to the Cloud #VoltDB #Hadapt #OmniTI #Joyent #SEOMoz http://t.co/4B …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119512292357447681

2011-09-29 20:41:43

DeirdreS: Someone said to me once, apropos of a @bcantrill video, “You’re going to edit that, right?” Hell, no – that would take the fun out of it!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119512197679419393

2011-09-29 20:40:09

DeirdreS: @alexis_gil that’s how we roll. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119511803666501632

2011-09-29 20:16:46

DeirdreS: RT @jtimberman: What if tech conferences didn’t have public wifi available at all, and people attending actually sat and listened to the …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119505919850713088

2011-09-29 19:50:53

DeirdreS: Getting shots (@ AITC) http://t.co/Cr4NHQZW
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119499409036820480

2011-09-29 18:55:13

DeirdreS: Updated Docs! How to Use the SmartOS ISO Image – SmartOS Documentation – SmartOS Wiki
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119485399855935489

2011-09-29 18:50:20

DeirdreS: RT @mvidallopez: #SmartOS Update. Great! Now with persistent setup on boot! Â #illumos #opensolaris #in
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119484170916478977

2011-09-29 18:28:05

DeirdreS: @ingenthr Are you in SF next week? Would love to see you at the Solaris reunion
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119478568098070528

2011-09-29 18:20:42

DeirdreS: @metadaddy Fantastic! Looking forward to seeing you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119476711418101761

2011-09-29 18:11:31

DeirdreS: @pelegri Will you be joining us at the party? Love to see you!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119474402017542145

2011-09-29 17:38:15

DeirdreS: SmartOS Update!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119466030044155904

2011-09-29 17:32:56

DeirdreS: RT @bdha: We’re going to meet up during the after party tonight to organize the SmartOS minihackathon. People should just find a Joyeur
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119464689242607619

2011-09-29 17:26:24

DeirdreS: @jasonh imagining you and/or @davidpaulyoung in a Santa suit…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119463045763301376

2011-09-29 17:25:50

DeirdreS: RT @sergiusens: Just awesome Â #fb
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119462902469111808

2011-09-29 17:15:39

DeirdreS: @rod11 …who happens to be a friend of our own @jamesaduncan
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119460342383382529

2011-09-29 17:14:56

DeirdreS: @TheOnion #CongressHostage story is both funny and painful precisely because these whackos are actually holding us ALL hostage.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119460160505786368

2011-09-29 16:50:50

DeirdreS: RT @joyent: Nekkid Tech #2 â€šÃ„Ã¬ â€šÃ„ÃºBack to the Futureâ€šÃ„Ã¹ w/ Level3 and @edsai talk cloud vendor lock-in, build vs buy, big data, open cloud- ht …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119454093990313984

2011-09-29 15:55:45

DeirdreS: @bcantrill Invite him to our party, as a start. 😉 #surgecon
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119440235171033088

2011-09-29 15:17:17

DeirdreS: @bcantrill Even in Baltimore, isn’t it a bit early for a drinking game? #surgecon
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119430553593323520

2011-09-29 15:09:53

DeirdreS: @metadaddy Joining us at the party?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119428692278652929

2011-09-29 15:01:02

DeirdreS: Is it just my bias, or are a lot more people talking about and using DTrace lately?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119426465791098880

2011-09-29 15:00:25

DeirdreS: RT @johnnysunshine: Life is like UNIX. Powerful, but confusing & frightening to newcomers. Also old men with beards understand it best.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119426308949286912

2011-09-29 14:28:01

DeirdreS: Whether you’re an old Solaris hand or new and want to learn, please join us next Tuesday evening in SF for beer and talk:
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119418155922759680

2011-09-29 14:26:53

DeirdreS: RT @bsousapt: wow…this #openindiana box is smoking fast …resilver in progress since 1.44T scanned out of 10.7T at 810M/s
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119417871905472512

2011-09-29 14:26:30

DeirdreS: @MUCOSUG illumos lists: there are wikis for illumos, oi, smartos. Need regional lists?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119417773347704832

2011-09-29 14:20:18

^ The invasion begins (click to enlarge)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119416212437467136

2011-09-29 05:49:49

DeirdreS: Yes, it’s weird, but this is the closest thing I have to a Home
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119287745725206528

2011-09-29 04:39:45

DeirdreS: RT @audi22: Strange, I haven’t seen any outrage in my Twitter timeline over this.

Now I have. I’m outraged.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119270112963477504

2011-09-29 01:43:32

DeirdreS: RT @NewYorker: A cloud computing cartoon of the day: Â – Uh oh.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119225766268506113

2011-09-29 01:40:36

DeirdreS: @richlowe Possible, but so far my hunch is that it’s a different demographic.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119225030184939521

2011-09-29 00:54:28

DeirdreS: @lderezinski You say that as if there’s anything wrong with eating and sleeping. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119213417109270528

2011-09-29 00:53:57

DeirdreS: @noebie Thanks – it’s still a top result for Italian slang on Google, and cited in wikipedia – much to my amusement!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119213290432901120

2011-09-29 00:44:40

DeirdreS: Tonight’s dinner will be Indian… with a bunch of Italians. Yes, it’s still all about Countries Beginning with I. But first, some editing..
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119210953245081600

2011-09-29 00:27:23

DeirdreS: RT @ryancnelson: Joyent folks are at #surgecon ! Please say hi, if you’re here too. We’re friendly!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119206601935699968

2011-09-28 21:51:42

DeirdreS: @johnnysunshine …left over from node knockout. Those kids didn’t know how to drink. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119167421918613504

2011-09-28 21:51:13

DeirdreS: @johnnysunshine There’s about as much again still in boxes.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119167300447371264

2011-09-28 21:00:11

DeirdreS: RT @alexis_gil: Discovering Joyent’s #smartos . Such a bright proposal. Â – Thanks!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119154458797146113

2011-09-28 20:57:19

DeirdreS: Do we really need anything else for a party?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119153737280389120

2011-09-28 20:48:12

DeirdreS: @wayfaringrob Glad you’re all in one piece.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119151442140467200

2011-09-28 20:35:56

DeirdreS: @MissyByte Â KVM on illumos– but I’m biased. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119148357930319872

2011-09-28 18:42:49

DeirdreS: @ryancnelson @bdha I leave it in your very capable hands, just let me know how to tell people where to find you #smartOS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119119889620410368

2011-09-28 18:10:57

DeirdreS: RT @3rdEden: The commercial version of Observer will be deployed on @joyent’s amazing cloud offering. Cheaper, better, faster than AWS. …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119111870379593728

2011-09-28 16:22:40

DeirdreS: @bdha I was waiting to hear from you and @ryancnelson about that
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119084620624044032

2011-09-28 16:22:06

DeirdreS: RT @joyent: Join Steve Tuck, GM Joyent Public Cloud for an Overview on the new Joyent Public Cloud on Tues 10/4 at 10AM PT/1PM ET http:/ …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119084475425632257

2011-09-28 14:24:34

DeirdreS: @willsnow Excellent, be great to see you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119054900779945984

2011-09-28 14:23:47

DeirdreS: SmartOS-Illumos-OpenIndiana Events – at Surge this week: @bcantrill and @dapsays speaking, & SmartOS mini-hackathon! http://t.co/nEYWZ8Fp
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119054700518707201

2011-09-28 03:15:00

DeirdreS: RT @joyent: Beer+ KVM + ZFS. Join @bcantrill, @brendangregg 4 Solaris Family Reunion at Joyent HQ 10/4 – 6 pm. http://t.co/oouX7ZUB
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118886398978830336

2011-09-28 03:06:43

DeirdreS: @willsnow It is indeed!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118884312039964672

2011-09-28 01:10:58

DeirdreS: Alasdair Lumsden of OpenIndiana at LOSUG â€šÃ„Ã¬ SmartOS.org http://t.co/pxLh9wTG
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118855180946112512

2011-09-28 00:00:37

DeirdreS: RT @samj: BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: “The Collapse Is Coming…And Goldman Rules The World” – YouTube http://t.co/LIXqOKVl &l …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118837477992710144

2011-09-27 23:02:20

DeirdreS: @lderezinski glad to hear you’re still alive and kicking!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118822811702804480

2011-09-27 22:53:11

DeirdreS: @willsnow gonna come to the party? Would love to see you http://t.co/LF3nLJ7y
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118820508593700865

2011-09-27 20:39:15

DeirdreS: RT @sdtuck: “Cloud” Fireside Chat with Jason.A. Hoffman http://t.co/n1feBwFu via @lanyrd
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118786804596998144

2011-09-27 20:15:22

DeirdreS: “had Oracle added DTrace probes to their enterprise products, we couldâ€šÃ„Ã´ve saved a lot of heartache with a one-liner.” http://t.co/th2HIQqD
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118780792993353728

2011-09-27 19:58:25

DeirdreS: @dexterous Would love to, but won’t hawe time this trip #Pune
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118776526199193600

2011-09-27 19:53:01

DeirdreS: @darrencrawford I have participated in smuggling an ostrich: http://t.co/5Akpr1vv #MonkeySmuggling
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118775166380675072

2011-09-27 17:43:56

DeirdreS: Listening to Nino Rota to drown out office chatter. Seems somehow appropriate.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118742684620955648

2011-09-27 17:34:48

DeirdreS: @davewiner All we have to do is ignore them. The beauty of twitter is that this is easy to do, unlike any other media.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118740385504825346

2011-09-27 17:22:48

DeirdreS: @_alram By that logic, a lot of Parisian men would look pretty odd. #TalesOfParisSubway
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118737367061364736

2011-09-27 17:21:33

DeirdreS: @darrencrawford $5 per monkey? Pretty sure I can get them cheaper in India, but the freight will kill us.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118737051704246272

2011-09-27 16:25:34

DeirdreS: ” DTrace provides insight into the guests in a way that just isn’t possible with any other virtualisation platform” http://t.co/vU78mxZB
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118722959824273408

2011-09-27 16:12:07

DeirdreS: RT @SolarisSIG: Slides from Alasdair’s OpenIndiana 151a and KVM demo are up at http://t.co/ZuwRBQBa #openindiana
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118719574945435649

2011-09-27 15:40:50

DeirdreS: @AnastasiaAshman @NomdeB Always glad to meet another ex-expat!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118711702442352641

2011-09-27 05:56:09

DeirdreS: @bubbva Well, please let the others know if they don’t already, And break a leg!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118564562231492608

2011-09-27 05:53:10

DeirdreS: @bubbva You guys coming to the reunion? We’d lowe to see you all #solaris
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118563812248002560

2011-09-27 05:33:39

DeirdreS: @gnat Well then you’re both good parents. Glad the boy is watching – Joss would approve.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118558899493281792

2011-09-27 05:32:12

DeirdreS: RT @HackerNewsFP: Using DTrace to debug a Node Knockout winner http://t.co/qG0oiEht
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118558537004756992

2011-09-27 05:21:57

DeirdreS: Ack. Dude. Facebook is not “the cloud”. The Cloud’s My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem – Alexis Madrigal- The Atlantic http://t.co/ml34e4te
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118555955884593152

2011-09-27 05:20:01

DeirdreS: @bdha Oh damn now I’m gonna have to buy it all the sooner. Trying to save it for my trip!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118555471270522880

2011-09-27 05:19:22

DeirdreS: RT @gnat: And so it begins. Ms 9 and Mr 12 watching S01E01 of Buffy. – Which proves you’re a great dad!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118555306648276992

2011-09-27 04:02:20

DeirdreS: Twilight Zone San Francisco: “Why Is Everybody Here?” – YouTube http://t.co/w06NFk11
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118535921531498496

2011-09-27 03:11:41

DeirdreS: @timoreilly Is anything interesting being said? #zeitgeist
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118523174357966848

2011-09-27 02:35:15

DeirdreS: RT @lewellyn: Crap. @oracle killed pkg.opensolaris.org without warning. This is… “bad”. 🙁 Anyone have a mirror of the 134b repository? :/
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118514005185798144

2011-09-27 02:30:14

DeirdreS: @lderezinski Good luck – we’ll be thinking of you!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118512743543357440

2011-09-27 02:29:46

DeirdreS: @substudio Maybe she’ll turn out to be the psycho one #panam
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118512624622243841

2011-09-27 02:29:20

DeirdreS: RT @robertoames: Nice article from @economist on #Facebook and sharing it all. The graphic is perfect! http://t.co/JG4pgUPn
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118512517952716800

2011-09-27 00:47:39

DeirdreS: RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: Source of Oracle is tell me latest version of PostgreSQL can be able download from mysql.com.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118486927379922944

2011-09-27 00:13:16

DeirdreS: @missbhavens Two great shows in their day. Tho I watched a few episodes of Maude a few years ago on DVD, and found it not that interesting.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118478272366526464

2011-09-26 23:56:56

DeirdreS: @missbhavens I didn’t think you were even old enough to remember Maude #jeopardy
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118474161969565697

2011-09-26 23:41:32

DeirdreS: @darrencrawford Now, now we haven’t actually done the monkey benchmark yet. Who was supposed to get the monkeys? #MillionMonkeys
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118470290316599296

2011-09-26 23:40:56

DeirdreS: RT @almightygod: Thank you @HemantMehta for interviewing me on Friendly Atheist: http://t.co/tHBGMdgR
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118470138562486272

2011-09-26 21:23:56

DeirdreS: “Now, Berlusconi is determined to shut Italyâ€šÃ„Ã´s bloggers up” – Italyâ€šÃ„Ã´s Fascist Style Blog Gagging http://t.co/sqZAtOrE
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118435660129517568

2011-09-26 21:11:37

DeirdreS: RT @jamesdotcuff: @bcantrill @joyent no kidding! we are due to meet Jason soon: your latest “KVM foo” is pure “unadulterated bmc” at its …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118432559494463488

2011-09-26 21:08:57

DeirdreS: @jeffreytaylor I’ve just lost all my geek cred. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118431890477809664

2011-09-26 21:00:52

DeirdreS: @jeffreytaylor you’ll have to explain that one to me
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118429853988032512

2011-09-26 20:58:03

DeirdreS: @dboyll got it visible on FF, thanks! #sparc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118429147721764864

2011-09-26 20:54:15

DeirdreS: @ben I couldn’t see it wih Chrome, can with FF
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118428191584030720

2011-09-26 20:51:47

DeirdreS: @riccardo_iommi I can hear, but not see. ??? #SPARC #oracle
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118427569929461760

2011-09-26 20:50:10

DeirdreS: RT @SAGEProgram: The Gap Year: Breaking up the “Cradle to College to Cubicle to Cemetery” Cycle – NYTimes.com http://t.co/WK17BCKe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118427163274919936

2011-09-26 18:47:29

DeirdreS: RT @jhk24: Congrats to Ed Saipetch’s blog BreathingData.com for being named top 100 cloud bog!!! http://t.co/00nR7bdx
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118396289221271552

2011-09-26 18:29:01

DeirdreS: Clarification: New & future family members are very welcome at the Solaris Family Reunion – please join us! bit.ly/mYKWer
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118391640883855360

2011-09-26 16:24:58

DeirdreS: RT @brendangregg: new post: Observing Observer: A Cloud Analytics Case Study http://t.co/FgSgs7N4
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118360424264646656

2011-09-26 16:13:50

DeirdreS: No matter how much we try to make it just about the money, capitalism runs on relationships. Corporations underestimate that to their peril.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118357620758282241

2011-09-26 16:07:51

DeirdreS: @urbanturbanguy I am working directly with an agent I’ve used for years in Delhi, http://t.co/BuBdRciv – do it all be email
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118356117058363392

2011-09-26 15:00:34

DeirdreS: Register now for the Solaris Family Reunion, October 4th at Joyent: bit.ly/mYKWer #solaris #opensolaris #smartos #illumos #openindiana #oow
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118339182497247233

2011-09-26 02:46:13

DeirdreS: RT @PeterGalvin: I just reviewed: ‘DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD (Oracle… via @amazon http://t.co/S1 …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118154376568246273

2011-09-25 22:07:33

DeirdreS: @kusor Enjoy!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118084247197192192

2011-09-25 21:31:44

DeirdreS: @JoeMyGod “But he’s played a President of the United States”. That is all I need to know about Fox “news”, thank you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118075234980073472

2011-09-25 21:30:31

DeirdreS: I could do without this massive headache.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118074931236974592

2011-09-25 21:29:39

DeirdreS: @kusor Cool, where are you going? I’m just working on my old website with lots of info…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118074710478176256

2011-09-25 21:27:10

DeirdreS: @kusor Congratulations!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118074085023555584

2011-09-25 21:05:45

DeirdreS: â€šÃ„Ãºmy father canâ€šÃ„Ã´t understand how anyone could see beauty in a place of such poverty and squalor.â€šÃ„Ã¹ Seeing Beauty http://t.co/QzcMyHoc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118068695879790592

2011-09-25 20:44:06

DeirdreS: â€šÃ„ÃºDonâ€šÃ„Ã´t you have anything else?â€šÃ„Ã¹ she asked mournfully. â€šÃ„ÃºIâ€šÃ„Ã´ve been making change all afternoon.â€šÃ„Ã¹ http://t.co/UWqzjB5U
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118063246212218880

2011-09-25 20:05:07

DeirdreS: @apperceptions These ravioli? http://t.co/KcMtWsiw
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118053435743535104

2011-09-25 19:28:55

DeirdreS: a better question may be, “How bad was the world in the past?” http://t.co/xOQNDvvy
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118044326273097728

2011-09-25 19:18:48

DeirdreS: @smaffulli I’d like to invite you and OpenStack folks: Solaris Family Reunion, October 4th at Joyent: bit.ly/mYKWer
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118041782213812224

2011-09-25 19:03:29

DeirdreS: don’t look if you’re hungry: Website Photo Bin: Food http://t.co/BhQOij3T
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118037928067874816

2011-09-25 18:11:58

DeirdreS: @wattersjames Depends – who do you want to toss them at?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118024961830039552

2011-09-25 18:11:31

DeirdreS: SmartOS news for today: http://t.co/EmeKtjhe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118024850240585728

2011-09-25 18:07:57

DeirdreS: RT @Graftolistic: Installing #KVM and Creating a #Debian VM in #OpenIndiana 151a http://t.co/Ay7WJOKt
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118023952613392384

2011-09-25 16:53:47

DeirdreS: Crowdbooster may turn out to be something I’d actually pay money for. Thanks @sogrady for putting me on to it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118005286815535104

2011-09-25 16:48:16

DeirdreS: @sevanjaniyan Wouldn’t fit!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/118003899213946880

2011-09-25 16:14:01

2011-09-25 07:15:58

DeirdreS: what I was doing 7 years ago:
Moving House in Italy http://t.co/gJ7A9mJR
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117859873919737856

2011-09-25 05:53:59

DeirdreS: is it just me or is this a strange juxtaposition? http://t.co/FRVVjq4e
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117839242121580544

2011-09-25 05:36:13

DeirdreS: Emergency: I am out of chocolate!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117834772008546304

2011-09-25 04:49:30

DeirdreS: @jonasthaler snort
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117823014502006784

2011-09-25 04:47:35

DeirdreS: @jonasthaler Surprisingly, I managed to miss that particular disaster, glad you did, too.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117822531704074240

2011-09-25 04:15:50

DeirdreS: @jasonh Hard to choose between Puss and Grover: http://t.co/IY2rPmXh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117814542339289088

2011-09-25 03:47:21

DeirdreS: RT @bdha: My (very) rough notes on booting a kvm branded zone on SmartOS: http://t.co/UwOMgw7j Will need a guest dataset already configured.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117807374118555648

2011-09-25 00:42:14

DeirdreS: Giggling.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117760788478967808

2011-09-25 00:21:39

DeirdreS: @scottmcnealy Hey, daddy of us all – come along for a beer? http://t.co/rAwCYRCt
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117755607666262016

2011-09-25 00:14:05

DeirdreS: a random buffet of photos of Italy posted on my site over the years: Website Photo Bin: Italy http://t.co/jfKEy14K
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117753703863291904

2011-09-25 00:11:06

DeirdreS: This bell pepper pasta sauce is smelling awfully yummy…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117752953649102848

2011-09-24 17:42:22

DeirdreS: any SmartOS folks in Delhi Oct 17-18-19? Or Bombay 27-28? Would love to meet up. (Sorry, no Bangalore this trip.)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117655125677441025

2011-09-24 17:37:36

DeirdreS: I don’t have many flan surfaces at home, so my bed is covered in piles of papers to be filed. It’s that kind of Saturday.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117653925636739072

2011-09-24 16:59:08

DeirdreS: @mfernest If only more of the world would practice that.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117644246789521409

2011-09-24 12:46:43

DeirdreS: Dang it, I keep trying to offend all these people on FB and they still won’t go away! 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117580720905535488

2011-09-24 03:24:58

DeirdreS: @missbhavens Bacon salt?!? WANT!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117439352212172800

2011-09-24 02:17:12

DeirdreS: Too bad the Folsom Street Fair doesn’t take place closer to Fleet Week. Much to celebrate this year.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117422301095538688

2011-09-24 22:28:03

DeirdreS: @professor__x We would be very happy for you to come!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117727020246515712

2011-09-24 20:37:19

DeirdreS: what Ross was doing 4 years ago at Woodstock: Orphan Kids http://t.co/3etqzNPM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117699153684992000

2011-09-24 20:23:08

DeirdreS: Thoughts for an upcoming reunion: what I wrote 10 years ago About Woodstock School http://t.co/qpRJCura
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117695581794738176

2011-09-24 20:03:33

DeirdreS: @rattay I read that as “scratch the itch of my peoples’ thang”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117690656817819648

2011-09-24 19:50:17

DeirdreS: @adrianco Hope you’ll be able to join us for the Solaris Family Reunion, October 4th at Joyent: bit.ly/mYKWer
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117687317195538432

2011-09-24 19:35:32

DeirdreS: Register now for the Solaris Family Reunion, October 4th at Joyent: http://t.co/3Kxlh0vr
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117683604099825665

2011-09-24 19:25:33

DeirdreS: @pelegri good idea! #Solaris
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117681094219931648

2011-09-24 19:08:08

DeirdreS: @chrisridd Flat! (Don’t have too many flan surfaces, either. Probably a good thing.)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117676710761213952

2011-09-24 19:03:21

DeirdreS: SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, Oct 4th – Solaris Family Reunion at Joyent in San Francisco http://t.co/jQVjl0hc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117675507318919168

2011-09-24 17:42:29

DeirdreS: @LusciousPear Umm, doing what with them?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117655156522352641

2011-09-23 23:16:12

DeirdreS: updated with downloadable slide deck: Video: Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS â€šÃ„Ã¬ SmartOS.org http://t.co/rQpjpDko
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117376748735315968

2011-09-23 22:35:30

DeirdreS: “we seem to be witnessing a fraying of the bonds of empathy, decency, common purpose. People fail to see each other” http://t.co/Bj7GHRWE
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117366505292824576

2011-09-23 22:28:49

DeirdreS: @strlen Can’t join tonight, but I will virtually commiserate
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117364825637650432

2011-09-23 20:12:22

DeirdreS: RT @obscurebug: @DeirdreS Regarding bmc, possibly Brownian motion? @bcantrill – made me laugh so hard I started coughing!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117330485725761536

2011-09-23 19:36:56

DeirdreS: RT @storming: A DIY book scanner. Pretty cool. http://t.co/LwOhp98r – want! (and need)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117321569574993920

2011-09-23 19:36:07

DeirdreS: .@jonasthaler your quips deserve more followers, and it’s #followfriday, so… People, follow Jonas! He plays the accordion.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117321361675923456

2011-09-23 18:32:32

DeirdreS: RT @ryah: In case you were wondering what libuv actually does, I added a list of features to the README: http://t.co/yDbOJdAB #nodejs
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117305360888508416

2011-09-23 18:30:23

DeirdreS: awesome article: SmartOS: virtualization with ZFS and KVM [LWN.net] http://t.co/3Jo0NB7i
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117304822050471936

2011-09-23 18:26:04

DeirdreS: @jasonh If I didn’t know you were working hard, I’d say you’re having too much fun. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117303734303854593

2011-09-23 18:16:56

DeirdreS: My calendar is full of others’ travel plans, so I can keep track of who I need to see.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117301436936753152

2011-09-23 18:12:32

DeirdreS: New Video: Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS â€šÃ„Ã¬ Bryan’s talk at the KVM Forum http://t.co/rQpjpDko
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117300330378702849

2011-09-23 17:09:16

DeirdreS: RT @ryah: OH: they replaced some existing LDAP proxy with ldapjs, and got a _70x_ performance increase (they triple checked) – Just… Wow.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117284409740230656

2011-09-23 16:01:42

DeirdreS: @jonasthaler Whatever you’re agreeing with, I probably do too. Nice to see you out on the ‘webs!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117267402454081536

2011-09-23 14:46:43

DeirdreS: OH: “bmc == bryan moving constantly” (a videographer’s experience of filming @bcantrill )
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117248535505813505

2011-09-23 06:49:41

DeirdreS: RT @hydra35: SmartOS: virtualization with ZFS and KVM http://t.co/z22hPcPy
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117128486409351168

2011-09-23 05:35:43

DeirdreS: what I was actually doing 8 years ago: Scuola Guida: Learning to Drive in Italy http://t.co/jbp6V2BI
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117109869168967680

2011-09-23 05:35:08

DeirdreS: (written) 8 years ago, about events much longer ago: Benares: The Distilled Essence of India http://t.co/9LQrmOGe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117109724444491776

2011-09-23 01:36:09

DeirdreS: Another GOP debate? Right, off twitter for the night. Really, you guys give these dolts way more attention than they deserve.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117049582176833536

2011-09-23 00:43:47

DeirdreS: @bcantrill Musical deck chairs on multiple Titanics?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117036402000138240

2011-09-23 00:23:49

DeirdreS: The creanivity of comment spammers often leaves much to be desired, but sometimes I’m tempted to let one pass for sheer loopiness.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117031379572756480

2011-09-22 22:38:27

DeirdreS: @redtwitdown FWIW, it appears that’s there’s quite a bit of convo about us in places I can’t get to. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117004861664534528

2011-09-22 22:37:41

DeirdreS: @redtwitdown Yeah, I agree, but these analyst types do it for money. If it’s any comfort, I couldn’t read it either.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/117004669800284160

2011-09-22 21:54:34

DeirdreS: “As S&Pâ€šÃ„Ã´s analysts noted, resistance to the structural economic reforms that Italy so desperately needs is rife” http://t.co/VDVPV8OG
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116993817105797120

2011-09-22 21:52:06

DeirdreS: @mmcallen Normal is way overrated
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116993198383050752

2011-09-22 21:51:30

DeirdreS: RT @joshaber: There aren’t many websites that wouldn’t benefit from bumping up their font size.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116993046008172545

2011-09-22 21:30:29

DeirdreS: Beginning to look forward to my 1st real vacation in years: “home” to India for a Woodstock School reunion, haven’t decided what eles yet…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116987755455713281

2011-09-22 21:23:09

DeirdreS: RT @the451group: Joyent goes open source to help service providers take on AWS: The company has open-sourced its SmartOS cloud op… htt …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116985911253794816

2011-09-22 20:31:08

DeirdreS: Dear Facebook: I don’t want or need to to be my everything. Stop trying so hard, it just makes you look pathetic.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116972823125307392

2011-09-22 18:35:26

DeirdreS: RT @badnima: Next time, Reed Hastings should hire Woot CEO Matt Rutledge to write his blog posts. http://t.co/vKOTturS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116943705914621952

2011-09-22 18:32:59

DeirdreS: RT @twiki: what motivates us: http://t.co/vyFk7wLx – #opensource #community “When profit gets unmoored from purpose, bad things happen.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116943087208636416

2011-09-22 15:43:22

DeirdreS: Taxi driver was speaking a north Indian dialect, now on cable car dropping off French tourists in Chinatown. Ah, San Francisco!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116900403421003776

2011-09-22 05:09:47

DeirdreS: RT @ahl: new blog post examining a recent RAID-6 recovery paper; does flash require new RAID algorithms? http://t.co/xe8pKyZf
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116740957306753024

2011-09-22 05:02:10

DeirdreS: The reason the US is alone among comparable countries in doing this is that it is the most religious of those countries http://t.co/f7vPIBVP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116739041046704128

2011-09-22 04:47:08

DeirdreS: RT @Revkin: Unreal: Seismologists on trial for manslaughter for failing to predict ’09 Italian quake: http://t.co/2OJGnUMy via @msnbc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116735256471678976

2011-09-22 04:40:19

DeirdreS: Gutsy wrangler, huge horse save boy from charging grizzly – http://t.co/nPmTYyPO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116733541114576896

2011-09-22 04:02:28

DeirdreS: @mformento Fino a quando? Mi farebbe piacere vederci.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116724017217540096

2011-09-21 23:15:01

DeirdreS: First Public Cloud in Taiwan Powered by Joyent Â¬Â´ Joyeur http://t.co/87OcD5VM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116651674550009856

2011-09-21 22:08:42

DeirdreS: @redtwitdown @richlowe ack, sorry – try now
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116634988446883840

2011-09-21 22:01:34

DeirdreS: SmartOS coolness: Tuning the IO Throttle http://t.co/6Eh2lXPs
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116633192232005632

2011-09-21 20:38:05

DeirdreS: Oh, look who’s on Percona.tv: http://t.co/jbhJktVo
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116612183156203520

2011-09-21 19:49:35

DeirdreS: @rosso Joyent by default ONLY offers SFTP, while the nice WP GUI for adding themes, plugins only offers FTP. Have to do it manually.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116599978079686656

2011-09-21 18:55:20

DeirdreS: RT @lewellyn: Using #HP servers and want to run #illumos #OpenIndiana? http://t.co/nYVVl1n5 will tell you how to get a functioning insta …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116586323271368705

2011-09-21 18:54:25

DeirdreS: @pperezrubio maybe this will help? http://t.co/JAh3QBfI #Openindiana #PXE
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116586091905159168

2011-09-21 15:48:54

DeirdreS: “students familiarize themselves with the information beforehand so class time can be spent helping them understand” http://t.co/pqNFFIyF
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116539407888171008

2011-09-21 15:12:55

DeirdreS: RT @bdha: And my SmartOS system is in production!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116530349718245376

2011-09-21 01:14:48

DeirdreS: Words about Al http://t.co/AmBU5PUP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116319431726084096

2011-09-21 00:43:06

DeirdreS: No idea what this says, but it /looks/ impressive http://t.co/AOZ0AiLq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116311453857890304

2011-09-21 00:20:59

DeirdreS: @izs I’m probably not, either,but… I actually did something sorta kinda resembling that today.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116305888880500736

2011-09-21 00:17:47

DeirdreS: @joelhousman but, you know, it’s all electronics, and if you’re good at computers, you must be good at the rest… no? Me, neither.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116305082047406082

2011-09-21 00:08:29

DeirdreS: RT @brendangregg: blunt! â€šÃ„ÃºI donâ€šÃ„Ã´t care if our commodity x86 business goes to zero … we are phasing it out.” – Ellison http://t.co/wi9E4SxL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116302744842813440

2011-09-20 23:23:19

DeirdreS: Online Rage and Community Moderation http://t.co/R0beu0Xq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116291377960202242

2011-09-20 23:16:48

DeirdreS: @avbelow SF? We should meet this time! #California
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116289735374290944

2011-09-20 23:00:34

DeirdreS: RT @old_sound: Please comment on this issue for adding DTrace support to Redis: http://t.co/1pKyc9vs
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116285652559085568

2011-09-20 22:37:06

DeirdreS: @Zee Very dangerous for men. If you don’t accompany your woman, she will select large heavy complex items for you to carry home and assemble
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116279745401978881

2011-09-20 22:12:57

DeirdreS: @rosso is there a way to get sftp support for theme etc installs from the GUI?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116273668736294913

2011-09-20 21:54:33

DeirdreS: “their son has a job but refuses to leave home and wants his clothes washed and his meals prepared.” http://t.co/nH5HgeS2
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116269036857344001

2011-09-20 20:55:03

DeirdreS: Realtime Multiplayer NodeJS http://t.co/NrSaoq5z
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116254065876410368

2011-09-20 18:14:56

DeirdreS: http://t.co/48mYa6y9 14 of 27 countries in European Union had public debt exceeding 60% of their gross domestic product at the end of 2010
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116213769130082304

2011-09-20 18:06:25

DeirdreS: @dizzyd should not be, let me check. Can you DM me your username?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116211627916922880

2011-09-20 16:42:04

DeirdreS: RT @anddam: dtrace ownz you http://t.co/DXsMJYP3
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116190397780340736

2011-09-20 15:25:36

DeirdreS: @lkateley No, indeed. The idea is to remind people of the culture that made Solaris great, in hopes that it doesn’t get lost.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116171157023113216

2011-09-20 07:57:11

DeirdreS: RT @oracleopenworld: 13 days to #Oracle OpenWorld. > http://t.co/SYMWJVZC !
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116058308196057088

2011-09-20 06:19:27

DeirdreS: @richlowe Not topical AFAIK, just that @brendangregg and I have been talking about the desirability of preserving Solaris culture & history.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116033712130498560

2011-09-20 06:13:00

DeirdreS: @richlowe We’re strolling down Solaris memory lane… for a reason. Or two or three.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116032089849200640

2011-09-20 05:31:42

DeirdreS: RT @wattersjames: @vambenepe did you hear the joke about Mark Hurd’s Cloud API? its only command is ‘terminate’
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116021695311134720

2011-09-20 05:29:23

DeirdreS: “you screwed up, but your mother still loves you (unless, of course, her home directory is on jurassic)” http://t.co/K2i87BXT
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116021114018336768

2011-09-20 05:07:09

DeirdreS: “put it back today, 20 of your (current) friends will be running it tomorrow” http://t.co/DRUvpQVk
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116015517139083264

2011-09-20 04:50:32

DeirdreS: @mformento E che ci fai nella mia zona? Benvenuto!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116011334423949312

2011-09-20 04:49:46

DeirdreS: RT @ChrisCoons: Now that DADT is behind us, it’s time to go get DOMA, don’t you think? #dadt
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116011141712449536

2011-09-20 04:19:28

DeirdreS: ” I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Or maybe there’s no obligations now…” http://t.co/tnMxB3AT
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116003515796697088

2011-09-20 04:09:27

DeirdreS: @NomdeB That did cross my mind!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/116000997352022016

2011-09-20 02:16:14

DeirdreS: umm… why is there a gigantic LED screen hanging outside Moscone West showing video (like cam) of a hotel maid cleaning a room?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115972506711621634

2011-09-20 01:05:37

DeirdreS: (hey’ I don’t “treat myself” very often)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115954733100961792

2011-09-20 01:05:14

DeirdreS: and I just received this and like it muchly, thanks Leslie Lum for the recco! Mini Ruche Bag by jennyndesign http://t.co/y4OMneTd
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115954638540390400

2011-09-20 01:01:56

DeirdreS: Whoever is responsible for the existence of bourbon, I thank you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115953805144760321

2011-09-19 23:33:46

DeirdreS: @Kim_Cameron did you try support@joyent.com ?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115931620221001728

2011-09-19 23:29:22

DeirdreS: RT @BreakingNews: S&P lowers Italy credit rating – Bloomberg http://t.co/7KgteqLN
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115930511515459584

2011-09-19 23:28:43

DeirdreS: @acarvin I would assume that if you are speaking you’d tweet that yourself if appropriate, and not need them to write it for you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115930349799874561

2011-09-19 23:24:47

DeirdreS: SmartOS News â€šÃ„Ã¬ SmartOS.org http://t.co/kyo7dLhr
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115929356492226560

2011-09-19 23:15:34

DeirdreS: RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: Source of Facebook is tell me that most requested feature by users is ‘Fuck this’ button. They may able launch at f8. +1 !
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115927039592239104

2011-09-19 22:55:53

DeirdreS: @flexrex cool!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115922083472613376

2011-09-19 22:48:36

DeirdreS: @fitzage geez, we just can’t get rid of you #fb
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115920250784055296

2011-09-19 22:29:31

DeirdreS: “what matters
Is the blame,
Somebody to blame.
If that’s the aim,
Give me the blame” – YouTube http://t.co/KQoX9mq0
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115915449300033536

2011-09-19 21:45:54

DeirdreS: I need a drink or 5, starting right about… now.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115904474605813760

2011-09-19 20:20:11

DeirdreS: RT @mickael: @monkchips @reillyusa @jasonh unfuckable sounds much better than previous Oracle Linux ads
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115882900104286209

2011-09-19 20:18:34

DeirdreS: RT @badnima: Thought provoking article on why Netflix HAD to split up the DVD vs Streaming business http://t.co/xVbkLXFJ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115882496897454080

2011-09-19 20:09:26

DeirdreS: @codepo8 Lots of info still lacking, but I’ll be glad for feedback on what’s there (and needed).
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115880198758608897

2011-09-19 18:19:44

DeirdreS: AT&T customer service are always great on the phone, but I wouldn’t have to call so often if their website wasn’t so confusing.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115852590155177984

2011-09-19 15:54:53

DeirdreS: @dizzyd please email support@joyent.com – they’ll be glad to help
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115816138235064320

2011-09-19 15:47:25

DeirdreS: @sh1mmer What airline in this? My experience in that you usually can, tho sometimes codesharing messes things up.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115814260050894848

2011-09-19 15:45:54

DeirdreS: RT @monkchips: @reillyusa smartOS is unfuckable software. its clean. cc @jasonh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115813876204965888

2011-09-19 15:45:40

DeirdreS: RT @BearRanda: @DeirdreS Hi Deirdre! Tom Lenk has a new film seeking support http://t.co/HPICZWlG, would love some help or a RT! 🙂 Than …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115813815773446144

2011-09-19 15:19:55

DeirdreS: @mxcia Aww, thanks!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115807335942848512

2011-09-19 15:19:26

DeirdreS: @old_sound @melanierenzulli I don’t think it exists in Italian, either.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115807213896994817

2011-09-19 06:19:39

DeirdreS: .@storagebod Also FYI we want to work together with OpenStack. Even turns out that my counterpart over there is an old friend, @smaffulli
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115671376194576385

2011-09-19 06:17:01

DeirdreS: RT @antoniovieiro: @melanierenzulli @dangeroustype @DeirdreS It’s “trasnochador” actually, see http://t.co/cSTqeK5c – thanks! A useful word!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115670710239772672

2011-09-19 06:14:51

DeirdreS: Hmm. Where else could we use games to solve real problems? Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists http://t.co/X5JNSufw
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115670168864174080

2011-09-19 04:56:09

DeirdreS: “if you rate or review a movie on Qwikster, it doesnâ€šÃ„Ã´t show up on Netflix, and vice-versa.” http://t.co/G6n3FaK3 – are you F’in kidding?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115650363150962688

2011-09-19 03:48:10

DeirdreS: RT @Graftolistic: cloning a #KVM virtual machine using ZFS in #openindiana http://t.co/oUhSwfgd
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115633254601728000

2011-09-19 03:47:47

DeirdreS: ooh, screenshots! Installing RHEL 5.5 and Fedora 13 in OpenIndiana 151a KVM | Gray Matter Boundaries http://t.co/s8K0PJsM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115633157193203712

2011-09-19 03:28:36

DeirdreS: “People who are unhappy about their marriage have a Hobson’s choice… between a bad marriage and no marriage at all.” http://t.co/XYwThOn2
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115628328370704384

2011-09-19 02:41:49

DeirdreS: http://t.co/O9SEY3qV Religion and nerds
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115616554456055809

2011-09-19 01:55:28

DeirdreS: @missbhavens According to the parties in question, naturally!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115604892810346496

2011-09-19 01:35:29

DeirdreS: RT @melanierenzulli: *swoon* RT @dangeroustype: Found a cool Spanish word in a Borges poem. Transnochadores: those who have stayed up al …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115599863244271616

2011-09-19 01:28:45

DeirdreS: So… I’m a horrible mother, an unsatisfactory daughter, was an ungrateful wife. At least my aunts seem(ed) to find me a pretty good neice.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115598168699310080

2011-09-18 22:20:52

DeirdreS: @dave_miner yes, I’ll be around
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115550884489994241

2011-09-18 19:33:38

DeirdreS: @storagebod I think we’re all on the same side here. SmartOS is new; community, docs, etc need time and input to grow, we’re working on it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115508801196666880

2011-09-18 19:23:21

DeirdreS: “a society only thrives if you allow people to give the best of themselves.â€šÃ„Ã¹ the Affliction of Comfort – NYTimes.com http://t.co/0BSpbWcK
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115506210249244672

2011-09-18 19:02:48

DeirdreS: Ugh. FB is for friends and family – people who are popular with /me/ – not the likes of Michael Arrington.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115501039100239872

2011-09-18 16:03:05

DeirdreS: @goMarielle @acarvin depends on their ages. I grew up with images of Vietnam war on TV, knowing my dad could’ve died there. Did me no good
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115455813971230721

2011-09-18 03:50:00

DeirdreS: @melanierenzulli That depends very much on whose hands!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115271326725443584

2011-09-18 03:38:17

DeirdreS: RT @purisubzi: Interviewer: So why do you write these strong female characters?

Joss Whedon: Because you’re still asking me that question.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115268376653348864

2011-09-18 03:36:20

DeirdreS: @AjeyGore Please keep us informed!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115267888193085440

2011-09-18 02:33:17

DeirdreS: “biology is ‘local’ — the ‘same’ biological processes in different places have different ‘effects’ on people.” http://t.co/x4lsF5Yh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115252020658700288

2011-09-17 22:15:41

DeirdreS: “the wiretaps throw doubt on Berlusconi’s claims that he has never paid for sex” http://t.co/lz36MHYb
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115187191583485952

2011-09-17 22:06:43

DeirdreS: RT @Zee: A useful rape analogy http://t.co/6PQP9IIW
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115184936058761216

2011-09-17 22:02:20

DeirdreS: @melanierenzulli I don’t think I could stop laughing through the “harmonizing energy” part. #Want #travel
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115183831820152832

2011-09-17 21:59:30

DeirdreS: RT @iamsrk: 3am just launched ra.one with happy meals with mc donalds and a lil g.one gift to go with it. Yippee http://t.co/ulWw3zaX
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115183118662635521

2011-09-17 21:39:35

DeirdreS: My neighborhood is already filling up with red. At least it means that a lot of old friends will be in town.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115178107559882753

2011-09-17 21:34:14

DeirdreS: RT @koenvervloesem: LOL RT @sjvn: A simple explanation of why one should use the Oxford comma. http://t.co/Hz91AmIX 🙂 #Writing
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115176760794038273

2011-09-17 21:33:43

DeirdreS: @kusor Ack! Glad at least that you won’t be going to your wedding with casts or stitches.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115176632070848513

2011-09-17 20:12:58

DeirdreS: @storagebod that, and more!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115156311838171136

2011-09-17 16:15:46

DeirdreS: RT @alecmuffett: There are some forms of computer misuse and “hacking” in which one can fairly delight http://t.co/1nXwOeg5 ( via http:/ …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115096618897899520

2011-09-17 16:03:52

DeirdreS: @storagebod Give us some time – right now it’s more DIY than pret-a-porter
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115093621635678208

2011-09-17 16:02:44

DeirdreS: RT @praetoriuss: Artikel âˆšÂºber #SmartOS, http://t.co/Sy23vtUe -“The trend of flagellated nerd OS seems to be broken.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115093336368492544

2011-09-17 15:52:31

DeirdreS: @jasonh I like your new profile pic!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115090766602317824

2011-09-17 15:52:09

DeirdreS: @kusor All ready?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/115090672268230656

2011-09-17 05:21:11

DeirdreS: @LusciousPear Can’t quite read it? #joy #ministry #fb
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114931883657281536

2011-09-17 04:50:17

DeirdreS: RT @timbray: Yow. Live reportage from Reno race disaster from Gosling: http://t.co/SFOoFNGO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114924108520751105

2011-09-17 04:38:53

DeirdreS: “compassion is out of fashion â€šÃ„Ã® indeed, lack of compassion has become a matter of principle” http://t.co/AkoWlSGP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114921238702456833

2011-09-17 00:37:42

DeirdreS: @reiger good to know!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114860544451821568

2011-09-17 00:37:32

DeirdreS: @fitzage @benr embarrassingly, that ad is one of the Google ads on my site. Someone targeting Joyent and/or cloud keywords.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114860500969459712

2011-09-17 00:36:38

DeirdreS: @italylogue I had my 40th birthday weekend there, it can sleep ~20 people, if they like each other. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114860278147059712

2011-09-16 22:36:55

DeirdreS: @italylogue or if you want a whole house, we have spent many happy times here: http://t.co/eHqJ4jsn #italy #travel
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114830149630951425

2011-09-16 20:19:08

DeirdreS: …meanwhile, the pigeons stare accusingly: What about US? Everybody wants something from me…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114795473889533952

2011-09-16 20:18:20

DeirdreS: finally cleaned and filled the hummingbird feeder after months. The poor little guy can’t seem to believe his good luck.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114795271556304896

2011-09-16 20:17:14

DeirdreS: @lderezinski Aww… don’t feel bad, it’s not actually all that exciting.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114794997752147968

2011-09-16 20:16:06

DeirdreS: @old_sound no, not a all. You should go for it! I just thought this video might be helpful to you as background: http://t.co/UoGlkv5l
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114794712824692738

2011-09-16 20:07:44

DeirdreS: @tomcoates Try Dan Kalshan, Financial District
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114792604998180864

2011-09-16 20:06:20

DeirdreS: @atl at SF HQ? Quite a few of us. #joyeurs
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114792252865388544

2011-09-16 20:05:50

DeirdreS: @old_sound (I mean that to be helpful, not snarky!) #ConFoo #dtrace
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114792126600052736

2011-09-16 20:05:36

DeirdreS: @old_sound You found Brendan’s video about MySQL, right? #ConFoo #dtrace
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114792066319519744

2011-09-16 17:52:32

DeirdreS: RT @RobvanDyck: Watch this video. Why Uniserve uses Joyent as our cloud provider – 1 Billion Page Views Per Month! http://t.co/BAs7KZ8Z …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114758582788030464

2011-09-16 16:28:00

DeirdreS: RT @atl: Yes, @joyent’s new price regime looks great, but it’s their API that has me really impressed: http://t.co/MhM3ODb9
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114737305541017600

2011-09-16 15:58:54

DeirdreS: RT @HenrikJohansen: In my world a knight in shining armour is a geek carrying @brendangregg ‘s Dtrace book …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114729986170175488

2011-09-16 15:58:23

DeirdreS: RT @jgeurts: The @joyent cloud prices are really compelling… going to have to keep that in mind
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114729856058662913

2011-09-16 10:00:43

DeirdreS: RT @HAL9000_: You know, if Dave had said “Sudo Open the Pod Bay Doors” I would have let him in.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114639843673387008

2011-09-16 05:10:49

DeirdreS: It’s been an intense 48 hours or therabouts. If I can sleep for the next 8 or 9 that would be good.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114566890453606400

2011-09-16 05:10:03

DeirdreS: RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: In devops we bring A game only when production machine is down. For rest of crap we do is B- game more than enough.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114566694298599425

2011-09-16 04:20:43

DeirdreS: @lewellyn actually we have quite a lot of wine left over…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114554279993425920

2011-09-16 04:19:37

DeirdreS: @jamescmcpherson just drunk tweeting
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114554004784164864

2011-09-16 03:37:28

DeirdreS: Sometimes it’s just about helping conversations happen
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114543397724880896

2011-09-16 03:31:57

DeirdreS: I may spend the next 24 hours mostly drunk. Is that ok ?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114542009154404352

2011-09-15 23:52:37

DeirdreS: If you’re stuck inside the cable car is much like any other commute. Except full of tourists
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114486812659032064

2011-09-15 22:24:49

DeirdreS: DTraceBook site is back http://t.co/jpsOxzDz
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114464716558045184

2011-09-15 22:17:33

DeirdreS: starting to think about my trip to India in October for the Woodstock School (and my class’) reunion. Going home!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114462887786971137

2011-09-15 22:08:36

DeirdreS: RT @BronxZooHBadger: HONEY BADGER DONT CARE!!! RT @HuffPostComedy Honey badger narrator gets a book deal! http://t.co/nqALUoBt
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114460632526487552

2011-09-15 21:19:00

DeirdreS: RT @sogrady: spinning up a test @joyent machine. possibly related: we happen to be in the market for a colo replacement.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114448153775833088

2011-09-15 20:54:06

DeirdreS: RT @chorrell: Awwww yeah, we got an API now! http://t.co/k5CfiTmH
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114441886508396545

2011-09-15 20:21:32

DeirdreS: RT @old_sound: It should be illegal to run production services without DTrace
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114433689814974465

2011-09-15 19:09:57

DeirdreS: RT @CloudTopics: Joyent Cloud takes on kingpin Amazon: Joyent pitches its revamped Joyent Cloud as a faster,… http://t.co/qKWt7VqQ Clo …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114415676785045504

2011-09-15 18:27:00

DeirdreS: Wow, perks of blogging! I’ve just been invited to be on a panel on women and travel at a corporate event, in NOLA. Expenses paid. Cool!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114404867304464384

2011-09-15 18:13:30

DeirdreS: Much sleepy…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114401469272309760

2011-09-15 17:55:52

DeirdreS: Wow, “my” community is evolving more rapidly than I could have imagined. Hang on for a wild ride!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114397033539977216

2011-09-15 17:41:56

DeirdreS: @shawnferry it may be there is no one left there who actually knows how to remove the old stuff.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114393523683471360

2011-09-15 17:41:16

DeirdreS: @pnbersch which new site do you mean?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114393359602290688

2011-09-15 16:44:01

DeirdreS: wow, just realized some old video of mine is still on Oracle Media Network http://t.co/00tHiCPJ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114378951073337344

2011-09-15 09:12:00

DeirdreS: RT @badnima: The New Joyent Cloud is Live! http://t.co/6AqphzGr
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114265198164058113

2011-09-15 09:10:10

DeirdreS: RT @rosso: Every time I think I want a bigger apartment, I thank goodness its size forces me to throw out crap I don’t need. – Amen!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114264735645577217

2011-09-15 09:08:56

DeirdreS: RT @joyent: Joyent arms cloud for death match with Amazon http://t.co/hiVSzfcF via @regvulture. Typically outrageous quotes from @jasonh. 🙂
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114264423954255872

2011-09-15 09:08:45

DeirdreS: The Observation Deck Â¬Âª Standing up SmartDataCenter http://t.co/7KUafG4b
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114264379683373057

2011-09-15 08:46:44

DeirdreS: @3rdEden thanks! I’m very happy about it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114258837694976000

2011-09-15 08:11:07

DeirdreS: @fitzage I hope we all can.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114249872886087680

2011-09-15 08:08:15

DeirdreS: RT @kirkwy: Next on the conference roadmap: “Replacing The Linux Kernel with Node.js” /cc @timfox @michaelklishin @monadic @old_sound
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114249154871562240

2011-09-15 05:48:20

DeirdreS: @ajkeen Sounds as if the teller is insecure about his own ability to deal with women who aren’t repressed by culture and law. Contemptible.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114213940938027008

2011-09-15 05:00:26

DeirdreS: @NomdeB @mtuckerb Yes, I assume the “Mom” reference is meant to make us think of the kids but, hey, dads get killed more often…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114201889222049792

2011-09-15 04:41:47

DeirdreS: This has been stuck in my head all evening. Now you can have it, too! http://t.co/5BLBZt7O
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114197192633364480

2011-09-15 04:34:31

DeirdreS: @mtuckerb I’ve got new allergies to soy and peanuts, which makes a lot of SF’s great Asian food off limits – augh!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114195363778412544

2011-09-15 01:35:41

DeirdreS: @lewellyn Oh, go ahead – I don’t set much store by “appropriate”.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114150362755235840

2011-09-15 01:22:49

DeirdreS: When a crime report speaks of a victim as a “mom”, is that supposed to make the event more tragic than if it happened to a mere “woman” ?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114147123418775552

2011-09-15 01:10:26

DeirdreS: @italylogue And not just for college – high school and gap year too! http://t.co/NGPxZl0B
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114144006841180160

2011-09-15 00:07:24

DeirdreS: @edsai Dammit, I was already hungry! #cloud #smartos
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114128142884548608

2011-09-14 23:51:49

DeirdreS: RT @ryancnelson: THIS DOGFOOD IS DELICIOUS! – I believe “We drink our own champagne” is the preferred phrase. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114124220082040832

2011-09-14 23:41:32

DeirdreS: (finally) Introducing Your SmartOS Community Manager â€šÃ„Ã¬ SmartOS.org http://t.co/WaiRqZzT
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114121633115025409

2011-09-14 22:43:38

DeirdreS: @bubbva I’ll be fine in India, the part of Asia I tend to spend more time in anyway
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114107061687689217

2011-09-14 21:52:39

DeirdreS: .@smaffulli …and somehow I’d missed that you are now my counterpart at OpenStack!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114094232473567232

2011-09-14 21:48:07

DeirdreS: RT @aliciafremling: No one likes a fearmonger who spreads lies @TeamBachmann http://t.co/dBCAnVP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114093093652926464

2011-09-14 21:44:45

DeirdreS: @smaffulli We’re very open to that, I’ve been lurking around to try to understand what would be needed.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114092245719855104

2011-09-14 21:33:24

DeirdreS: Countdown to the No Compromises Cloud http://t.co/tLy27Buf
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114089387708514304

2011-09-14 20:43:42

DeirdreS: a mesmerizing guitar solo: Alex Britti ‘Intro’ – Unplugged – YouTube http://t.co/mxwNgn6g
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114076882005278720

2011-09-14 20:32:43

DeirdreS: @adityapatawari heh. If you’d like to doc what you run into, we could include that on wiki.smartos.org
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114074118684540928

2011-09-14 20:31:53

DeirdreS: RT @bdha: @vandergoog @joyent But it works! @ryancnelson is modding up SmartOS as well. Hackathon at #surgecon!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114073909090979842

2011-09-14 19:20:03

DeirdreS: @adityapatawari Or you could use the brand-new OpenIndiana distro which does include many of those things…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114055830898343936

2011-09-14 19:08:36

DeirdreS: @smaffulli seen my new job? http://t.co/5FsiJqT
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114052948459405312

2011-09-14 17:46:00

DeirdreS: learning to live with a food allergy is a bitch. And, it turns out, being allergic to soy while living in the US is a real problem.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114032159299354624

2011-09-14 17:41:47

DeirdreS: “on the surface weâ€šÃ„Ã´re a transportation company, but there are so many ways to look at our data” http://t.co/ua2eGod – true of so many cos.!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114031099491004416

2011-09-14 17:34:26

DeirdreS: bought season tix for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus http://t.co/456d5u3 – Stephen Schwartz conducting songs from “Wicked”? Of course!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114029250226561024

2011-09-14 17:03:18

DeirdreS: oi_151a Release Notes – OpenIndiana – OpenIndiana Wiki http://t.co/6aYjSs3
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114021416646615040

2011-09-14 17:02:32

DeirdreS: RT @scottherson: Bay Area Execs – still a few spots open for tomorrow (thurs 9-15) nights Joyent Cloud Celebration and Launch Party – pâ€šÃ„Â¶ …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114021220432875520

2011-09-14 16:57:14

DeirdreS: spent an hour and a half over breakfast talking about one of my very favorite things: Woodstock School (I could have gone on much longer…)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/114019887084609537

2011-09-14 14:28:51

DeirdreS: events listing for SmartOS-Illumos-OpenIndiana http://t.co/q7X9pa7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113982545925902336

2011-09-14 14:21:45

DeirdreS: RT @kbeninato: Elizabeth Warren – “I’m Running” http://t.co/5uzSVRc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113980758862995457

2011-09-14 05:25:29

DeirdreS: .@CTOPathScale The whole truth is that many people I like & respect are still at #Oracle, and I wish them well. But we all miss #Sun. A lot.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113845802182520832

2011-09-14 05:23:03

DeirdreS: this time last year: How the DTrace Book Got Done http://t.co/gn1ftQM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113845193328959488

2011-09-14 05:21:33

DeirdreS: 2 years ago, something for you football fans: Halas Hall, Home of the Chicago Bears http://t.co/QUPXgm5
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113844812511318016

2011-09-14 05:19:36

DeirdreS: 5 years ago: Sunday Hike: Canete to Tabia Dasci http://t.co/NrMI0Z7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113844325246451712

2011-09-14 04:04:12

DeirdreS: @KatieS http://t.co/ffYyX1Y
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113825349351112704

2011-09-14 04:02:39

DeirdreS: @llcrowe @nonstick Not right soon, but I’m assuming you’ll both be around for a while?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113824958240657408

2011-09-14 03:55:13

DeirdreS: @llcrowe @nonstick Hey, we need to all get together!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113823086641553408

2011-09-14 03:50:08

DeirdreS: RT @snare: @toliman yeah 🙁 I’m running OSol on my NAS at home, gonna give SmartOS a go I reckon.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113821807383019520

2011-09-14 03:45:23

DeirdreS: RT @openindiana: Happy First Anniversary! OpenIndiana is 1 year old today 🙂 And to celebrate, oi_151a is now out! http://t.co/msbUbPS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113820611284975616

2011-09-14 00:57:05

DeirdreS: @peteryorke Thanks! You, too, on both counts.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113778260525064193

2011-09-13 21:13:37

DeirdreS: RT @bubbva: Was glad today that @DeirdreS archives things! Her video helped me to get into advanced class at Voice One! – glad to help!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113722023099908098

2011-09-13 20:36:56

DeirdreS: RT @jamescmcpherson: @DeirdreS http://t.co/d9eG0n9 – I know someone who will want to see this – @NomdeB
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113712790149148672

2011-09-13 19:01:22

DeirdreS: Just got around to buying an album I’ve loved for years: Mozart Horn Concertos
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113688739200507904

2011-09-13 18:36:34

DeirdreS: RT @old_sound: Just applied to the ZâˆšÂºrich Canton for a license to open The Church of DTrace. #convert
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113682500542398465

2011-09-13 18:18:42

DeirdreS: RT @WinnieWongSF: Helping my fave Texan look for sublet in SF for next few months. Msg me if you have any leads. Pref move in mid-Sept, …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113678001488662528

2011-09-13 16:22:04

DeirdreS: @NomdeB If I did that, quite a few people would be getting thumped this morning. None of them within reach, however.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113648648776204288

2011-09-13 16:08:41

DeirdreS: Woke up irritable and twitchy from dreams far too close to reality.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113645284373954561

2011-09-13 01:32:14

DeirdreS: @JoeMyGod I hope each and every one of those cheering audience members gets to experience being uninsured in this country. #CNNTeaParty
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113424717280591873

2011-09-12 22:32:41

DeirdreS: RT @izs: @3rdeden Really, it was @brendangregg who saw the smoking gun in cloud analytics. Solving it was a trivial one-liner.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113379533444485121

2011-09-12 21:44:17

DeirdreS: @othiym23 We-ell… hasn’t been tried yet, could be an interesting challenge!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113367352678170624

2011-09-12 21:31:29

DeirdreS: The more I read, the more I feel I don’t understand… <sigh>
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113364128130793472

2011-09-12 21:30:09

DeirdreS: @othiym23 install Ubuntu as a guest in SmartOS and see if he/she notices. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113363793085595649

2011-09-12 21:16:33

DeirdreS: @joelhousman Dose that include everyone in Wash-ington? I’m all for that.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113360372194488321

2011-09-12 21:15:48

DeirdreS: Network Awesome: Sita Sings the Cosmic Freakin’ Blues http://t.co/yLL74Vx
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113360184046399488

2011-09-12 18:30:00

DeirdreS: OpenIndiana build 151a due Wednesday 14th September http://t.co/d4KM9dH
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113318459387023361

2011-09-12 17:59:48

DeirdreS: RT @koenvervloesem: cool, I’m running the best hypervisor on the best filesystem now 🙂 http://t.co/fgmANaJ #kvm #zfs #smartos
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113310856397332480

2011-09-12 15:57:20

DeirdreS: Mammo center running late because all the equipment got shut down over the weekend and had to be rebooted. And I haven’t had breakfast…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113280037985320960

2011-09-12 15:17:55

DeirdreS: Ladies in the waiting room passing judgement on the “celebs” in magazines: “Hollywood is nothing but a cesspool, no morals, nothing.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113270120171839488

2011-09-12 13:55:59

DeirdreS: @riccardo_iommi probably faithful to their men was intended, but people believe that the two go together.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113249498804916224

2011-09-12 05:21:44

DeirdreS: The FB ad for “single men looking for faithful women” has appeared several times too often. I’d never be interested in a man that insecure.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113120084184141824

2011-09-12 05:18:00

DeirdreS: RT @reiger: Apartment hunting since will probably be in SF longer. Yikes, have a week and nothing is available. Anyone know anyone looking?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113119145289203712

2011-09-12 05:17:47

DeirdreS: @MathSimon You’ll definitely get SmartOS, though you’ll have to put up with the rest. I tweet all over the map.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113119088733196288

2011-09-12 05:12:15

DeirdreS: @bdha We called our daguhter “the beast”. People thought we were unnatural parents.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113117699370004480

2011-09-12 05:08:57

DeirdreS: @timbray Oh, some get far more than that!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113116869057187840

2011-09-12 04:48:37

DeirdreS: Also found my dad’s account, which he never used. Just as well. He didn’t catch on that “the bear” has a different connotation nowadays.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113111751565905920

2011-09-12 04:47:46

DeirdreS: As usual, puzzled by some of my Twitter followers – what do you people expect from me?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113111536704307200

2011-09-12 04:26:17

DeirdreS: RT @NomdeB: Love this RT @TheEconomist An unusual bit of English has been spotted in China http://t.co/XMpUFiu >One for @englishwhirled
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113106131768983552

2011-09-12 04:22:58

DeirdreS: only at Woodstock School would you get a production of Brigadoon with Tibetans playing Scots… http://t.co/5ACRFA9
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113105294426517504

2011-09-12 03:12:20

DeirdreS: RT @joelhousman: Borders STILL can’t get rid of them: http://t.co/43FxZDb
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113087518592876544

2011-09-11 16:47:46

DeirdreS: 8 years ago: â€šÃ„ÃºHousewives, who should be cooking, are burning.â€šÃ„Ã¹ – Pirating Music http://t.co/OfVxJEN
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112930340942774272

2011-09-11 16:23:41

DeirdreS: RT @kitt: I cry today not for the loss of the lives ten years ago, but for the loss of my country since then.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112924282975301632

2011-09-11 04:05:50

DeirdreS: @corey_latislaw sounds as if the problem is hers!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112738596431200256

2011-09-11 02:15:15

DeirdreS: that was a very good dinner, if I say so myself
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112710765768749058

2011-09-11 01:37:42

DeirdreS: Like so… http://t.co/GtmbZk9
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112701317033631745

2011-09-11 01:34:30

DeirdreS: making pasta with squashes and peppers from the farmers’ market
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112700513614708736

2011-09-11 22:08:17

DeirdreS: Yes, I still do videos, but this week’s were internal-only. http://t.co/KWslnTa
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113011002953572352

2011-09-11 22:01:46

DeirdreS: @NomdeB what game? #tivo #dangeroustimetobeontwitter
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113009361915351040

2011-09-11 22:01:33

DeirdreS: RT @pancrazioauteri: Microblogging works: many people at IBC show already knew me because of posts on #Twitter and #Linkedin. #ibc2011 # …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/113009309469782016

2011-09-11 21:23:37

DeirdreS: dang, I have a lot of photos… Deirdre’s Photos | SmugMug http://t.co/Ht6ZbqK
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112999761744900097

2011-09-11 20:42:30

DeirdreS: RT @dlsspy: Since I added dtrace probes to erlang, every mystery we’ve ever had is answered with a smug “this, obviously” http://t.co/qO …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112989415688773634

2011-09-11 20:19:56

DeirdreS: fighter jets in the sky is not something I want to see on this particular date
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112983734667583488

2011-09-11 18:49:46

DeirdreS: a nice day on Lake Como in 2004, with my dad and Ross: http://t.co/nRoPD2F
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112961046607699968

2011-09-11 17:15:46

DeirdreS: @trine She’s got her own language, too!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112937389076393984

2011-09-10 21:39:04

DeirdreS: @old_sound you know there’s a book, too, right? http://t.co/X2wIvpO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112641263181889536

2011-09-10 21:37:58

DeirdreS: http://t.co/IB5d9it
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112640984831115265

2011-09-10 21:29:08

DeirdreS: @old_sound got some videos that may help with that: http://t.co/0rlQCZD
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112638764844720128

2011-09-10 21:28:38

DeirdreS: @kvegh thanks. I was sure of it, my management not always so much. 😉 But I persevere, and the world is catching up.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112638639007219712

2011-09-10 17:42:26

DeirdreS: RT @GuloGuloDesu: I hate #Oracle, and I miss #SUN. So now I’m running #OpenIndiana…. – that correlation seems to hold for many.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112581711975555072

2011-09-10 17:37:25

DeirdreS: and this: Videoblogging for Sun: By the Numbers http://t.co/9Pczeoq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112580449808822272

2011-09-10 17:36:58

DeirdreS: ~2 years ago, I published: FISL Interview: Using Video to Communicate About Open Source http://t.co/D0mD47x
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112580337699270656

2011-09-10 17:35:06

DeirdreS: and, indeed, she did not (stay in Italy): Indian Schoolkids http://t.co/qBwBTuh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112579866175602689

2011-09-10 17:33:01

DeirdreS: â€šÃ„ÃºIâ€šÃ„Ã´m not staying in Italy when Iâ€šÃ„Ã´m grown up,â€šÃ„Ã¹ she says. â€šÃ„ÃºItâ€šÃ„Ã´s boring.â€šÃ„Ã¹ http://t.co/dTUTfkU
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112579340549636096

2011-09-10 17:02:33

DeirdreS: RT @brendangregg: The zones:::nsec_waitrq kstat was crucial today in tracking down a perf issue. It’s in #smartos (thanks Jerry)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112571676352454656

2011-09-10 01:12:34

DeirdreS: @PeterKretzman the founder went to Woodstock School, this was my first chance to see them live. Cool!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112332604686082048

2011-09-10 00:24:22

DeirdreS: Project Bandaloop http://t.co/y4Pm23n
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112320472913428480

2011-09-10 00:13:28

DeirdreS: @LusciousPear we gonna manage to meet this time?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112317732648779776

2011-09-09 23:56:37

DeirdreS: I’m at Mint Plaza (1 Mint Plaza, 5th St, San Francisco) http://t.co/TRX0TpS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112313488751341568

2011-09-09 21:37:45

DeirdreS: @richlowe Doesn’t my open source street cred require that I have a frothing opinion in the matter? 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112278545664978944

2011-09-09 21:31:27

DeirdreS: Feeling irritable and itchy all over. This may be due to allergies, or to reading about copyleft licenses.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112276957756006400

2011-09-09 20:10:37

DeirdreS: Is Silvio Berlusconi the worst leader of a major country in the world? – By David Rothkopf | David Rothkopf http://t.co/0OftxMz
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112256616644100096

2011-09-09 19:52:00

DeirdreS: @jbouvier get past the front page on http://t.co/5FsiJqT and that changes. We try to feature unmuzzled engineers: http://t.co/UVVLKc3
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112251931476508672

2011-09-09 18:49:22

DeirdreS: @rbanffy Giving away billions in worldwide healthcare qualifies.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112236168451588096

2011-09-09 18:47:28

DeirdreS: RT @raichoo: Religion does not always correlate with ethics. Get over it! http://t.co/gZhNSAB /via @gedankenstuecke
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112235689365606400

2011-09-09 17:34:59

DeirdreS: If I ever use the term “super excited” in any forum or context, please assume an impostor. If it’s really me, just shoot me.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112217450912825344

2011-09-09 17:08:20

DeirdreS: @NomdeB At the moment, carries some grim irony for me.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112210742735945728

2011-09-09 16:55:28

DeirdreS: I guess I’ll have to spend the weekend offline and out of range of any media. I lived thru 9/11 once, don’t need to relive it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112207505165262849

2011-09-09 16:33:11

DeirdreS: @PeterKretzman “Baited breath” kinda grosses me out.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112201897187868672

2011-09-09 16:32:40

DeirdreS: @NomdeB http://t.co/afN947g
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112201768468877312

2011-09-09 16:21:17

DeirdreS: @PeterKretzman http://t.co/aEmr58v #handbasket
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112198901393653762

2011-09-09 16:21:08

DeirdreS: @sriramnrn Please do. I think I’m reading everything in realtime now, but if you feel ignored, make sure I’ve seen it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112198862780899328

2011-09-09 16:11:46

DeirdreS: RT @tusharpokle: Curious about no.de’s excellent Solaris platform? Download it – http://t.co/ehoxyId Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112196506043420672

2011-09-09 16:11:13

DeirdreS: @sriramnrn Not yet, waiting to see if there’s need for separate channels outside the Illumos ones. I don’t want to needlessly fragment us.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112196367178403840

2011-09-09 16:10:21

DeirdreS: Thanks Atlassian for the free Confluence Open Source license for SmartOS.org! Get one for your Open Source team here: http://t.co/CHNmI96
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112196150521630720

2011-09-09 15:25:14

DeirdreS: RT @bakadesuyo: What can help bond you and your partner closer together? How can you keep the flame burning? http://t.co/t4CJBmq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112184796419076096

2011-09-09 14:40:27

DeirdreS: RT @robinbloor: He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112173526882074626

2011-09-09 14:29:32

DeirdreS: Feel guilty about taking a taxi to something I could normally walk to. OTOH, no longer own a car.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112170780594417664

2011-09-09 03:54:58

DeirdreS: @chorrell only ~40 mins, cuts off without warning
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/112011083681763328

2011-09-09 02:02:58

DeirdreS: 8 years ago: Changing Names: Italian Women Keep Their Own Upon Marriage http://t.co/bDdpElo
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111982901414985728

2011-09-09 01:48:09

DeirdreS: RT @agiletortoise: If health insurance wasn’t tied to employment, there’d be a whole lot more people creating their own jobs.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111979170858414080

2011-09-09 01:33:08

DeirdreS: 8 years ago: Another Rite of Passage Completed http://t.co/i3Jg9XI
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111975391039733760

2011-09-09 01:00:25

DeirdreS: So wha Intel event is coming up at Moscone Center? I can see the logo going up on Moscone West from my window.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111967159017672704

2011-09-09 00:58:59

DeirdreS: @sh1mmer They didn’t tell you about the Fishworks Mariokart obsession. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111966798689214464

2011-09-09 00:20:14

DeirdreS: Going home to eat anchovies and stinky cheese, possibly on garlic bread. Why, yes, I /am/ sleeping alone tonight – why do you ask? 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111957047024685056

2011-09-09 00:01:48

DeirdreS: @RoxioSupport CD Spin Doctor
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111952407507906561

2011-09-08 23:18:47

DeirdreS: @RoxioSupport OMG, that stupid product name I came up with as a joke is still in use?!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111941582923644928

2011-09-08 21:38:58

DeirdreS: I did community before it was cool… 😉
Wayback Machine: r o x i o | Roxio and Our Customers: Let’s Talk http://t.co/3rNtUa5
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111916463606071296

2011-09-08 21:32:57

DeirdreS: RT @mcavage: Just published my manifesto on LDAP and ldapjs: http://t.co/z34SHJL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111914948757696512

2011-09-08 19:39:52

DeirdreS: “learners better understand concepts through simple drawing, sets the stage for innovative and divergent thinking” http://t.co/JhkLQyj
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111886490291798016

2011-09-08 18:51:19

DeirdreS: RT @gsyoungblood: Finally getting around to posting screenshot of #openindiana KVM installing OI 148 as a guest. http://t.co/fp2GTpx #oi …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111874272292634624

2011-09-08 16:10:58

DeirdreS: “The work we do is for the rest of what we want: the stuff that makes life fun, meaningful, and purposeful.” http://t.co/y9IMkFG
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111833919451705344

2011-09-08 14:59:17

DeirdreS: @LusciousPear Only time I’ve used them, the car got pulled over by a cop half a block before he reached me. That took a while.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111815878919733248

2011-09-08 14:58:29

DeirdreS: @sogrady Yes, but… I have a feeling we were a lot more schooled in real life, somehow.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111815678025142272

2011-09-07 23:29:01

DeirdreS: what I need today: 7000 CaffâˆšÂ® http://t.co/VjzTTZ0
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111581769412784129

2011-09-07 23:00:35

DeirdreS: @jasonh Maybe he’s practicing for the cancelled roadshow?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111574614760624128

2011-09-07 22:59:16

DeirdreS: RT @BrianAGBonney: Developing the next great Web app? Why not test drive Uniserveâ€šÃ„Ã´s Free Cloud Beta for 2 months? http://t.co/ODaAClh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111574281401536512

2011-09-07 22:55:09

DeirdreS: @missbhavens You should run a B&B, but with cocktails instead of breakfast. Or maybe FOR breakfast. I’d totally stay there. #1
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111573246004043777

2011-09-07 21:32:24

DeirdreS: @ben Well of course. We have a cunning plan…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111552422937235457

2011-09-07 20:55:31

DeirdreS: The exhaust port is just there… http://t.co/zPeTdEM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111543139197652993

2011-09-07 19:29:55

DeirdreS: @jacques An important competition hinges on that!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111521597755621376

2011-09-07 16:45:29

DeirdreS: @lattera Thanks, we are considering it, as mentioned, but no timeline as yet.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111480216169365504

2011-09-07 16:41:30

DeirdreS: @bici effing hackers. Thanks, fixing.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111479212464025600

2011-09-07 14:01:12

DeirdreS: @Joanmarie I’m so sorry.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111438872499585024

2011-09-07 13:59:54

DeirdreS: RT @ZackFord: I absolutely love this reparative therapy for monosexuals: http://t.co/6SdkZvQ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111438546971271168

2011-09-07 05:03:42

DeirdreS: 7 years ago: Il Capriolo: A Wonderful Restaurant in an Italian Alpine Village http://t.co/ouwWLdG (with video)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111303608875757568

2011-09-07 04:49:16

DeirdreS: @NomdeB Oh, dear. Glad all are ok.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111299974922387456

2011-09-07 01:35:50

DeirdreS: @sintaxi Looking forward to seeing you both!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111251294664130560

2011-09-06 22:54:45

DeirdreS: @davidpaulyoung Give ’em the old razzle-dazzle…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111210756816650240

2011-09-06 22:20:03

DeirdreS: @elijahwright That’s just handwaving, only fancier. 😉 #jazzhands
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111202023281655810

2011-09-06 21:29:52

DeirdreS: RT @surgecon: Surge2011 tickets going fast-don’t miss Google, Yahoo!, Boundary, Joyent, Message Systems, Cloudant, SEOMoz and more. http …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111189397281579008

2011-09-06 16:24:19

DeirdreS: @jacques Hey, come find me when you have a break!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111112500170334208

2011-09-06 14:30:52

DeirdreS: Maybe I can have my brain back now…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111083949446541312

2011-09-06 14:14:37

DeirdreS: @ryancnelson we’ll get that captured somehow #smartos
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/111079862256676864

2011-09-05 16:24:42

DeirdreS: @NomdeB I need one of those
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110750211483254785

2011-09-05 16:00:52

DeirdreS: Outside a highway motel in California, an old woman in a sari gathers flowers on a brass tray for the morning puja.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110744213766934528

2011-09-05 14:42:41

DeirdreS: RT @rcade: In a politician’s comments about God, substitute “Zeus” for God to make sure you’re not missing out on how alarming they sound.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110724536357486592

2011-09-05 04:10:49

DeirdreS: RT @comay: “Goodbye to All That”; this long-but-necessary article made me angry, despondent, fearful, overwhelmed yet motivated. http:// …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110565524110446593

2011-09-05 03:24:43

DeirdreS: RT @caseymckinnon: Google’s birthday present to Freddie Mercury is amazing!!! http://t.co/Pu60o4u
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110553921453436928

2011-09-04 15:23:39

DeirdreS: @dottavi And many more don’t report it… #cernobbio
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110372457805914112

2011-09-04 15:12:02

DeirdreS: RT @bdha: http://t.co/kaXHFuT # Got @joyent’s SmartOS up and running happily on a zoomy Oracle box. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110369536225710081

2011-09-04 15:11:45

DeirdreS: @antoniovieiro Exactly, SmartOS underlies and enables the magic cool stuff we do in SmartDataCenter, tho SDC adds some magic of its own.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110369464222105600

2011-09-04 01:37:38

DeirdreS: I’m not going to write them down, either. I’ve spent most of my life being his audience. Time to be the protagonist in my own story.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110164584203165697

2011-09-04 01:36:21

DeirdreS: Dad was a storyteller, but he didn’t write down his stories, no matter how often I begged. He thought there’d be time – he’d live forever.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110164260679716864

2011-09-04 01:17:50

DeirdreS: RT @GodlessAtheist: Christian Charity http://t.co/ONHChwQ #atheism
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110159601193848833

2011-09-04 00:20:40

DeirdreS: @LusciousPear All in all, the week sucked beyond the telling of it. The only upside is that I never have to do that again.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110145214311702528

2011-09-03 23:46:45

DeirdreS: Two different people called my dad a Socialist at his funeral. No one was offended by this.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110136680547233794

2011-09-03 23:45:37

DeirdreS: This is not the kind of chocolate chip cookie I wanted, but I may have distractedly added too much flour. Drat.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110136395040960512

2011-09-03 23:41:41

DeirdreS: @mvidallopez appunto
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110135406745497600

2011-09-03 23:32:53

DeirdreS: Dadâ€šÃ„Ã´s Funeral http://t.co/cAL3rv6
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110133188659118080

2011-09-03 23:21:05

DeirdreS: @hudsonette “The filly did it” – I like that
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110130219163201536

2011-09-03 23:16:25

DeirdreS: @hemantmehta depends, were you on commission?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110129046817472513

2011-09-03 21:57:15

DeirdreS: I guess I should eat something more than just toast and coffee…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110109125131780096

2011-09-03 21:53:37

DeirdreS: @pborenstein you might have a point there… #fb
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110108209456496640

2011-09-03 20:58:30

DeirdreS: @sogrady Thanks, Crowdbooster is indeed interesting, though I probably make them work a littel harder – not your typical marketing tweeter
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110094338293370880

2011-09-03 20:46:30

DeirdreS: doing some digital housekeeping, rescued this Gallery: Torino, January 2008 http://t.co/c18f6J2
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110091320302911488

2011-09-03 18:53:06

DeirdreS: I’m at Whole Foods Market (399 4th St, at Harrison St, San Francisco) http://t.co/UW0cdMv
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110062779406368768

2011-09-03 18:14:50

DeirdreS: @alanc We won’t be there, either, but that’s due to pover outage + holiday. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110053152811782144

2011-09-03 18:13:43

DeirdreS: RT @melanierenzulli: RT @GirlFuturist: Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law: http://t.co/yMpUhbM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110052869033558016

2011-09-03 15:15:04

DeirdreS: you’d think the hackers could be a bit respectful and not take my site down for no good reason while I’m writing about my dad’s funeral
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/110007910288994304

2011-09-03 10:46:03

DeirdreS: .@ryancnelson hack-day at Surge conf in Baltimore. #smartos – I like this idea, who all is going?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109940211118641153

2011-09-03 10:12:04

DeirdreS: @bdha I’d love for you to share modding tips on the smartos site.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109931657657712640

2011-09-03 09:44:29

DeirdreS: “Consider how a country would amend the Constitution to outlaw daily private behavior.” http://t.co/S2EanxI
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109924717187698689

2011-09-03 04:19:24

DeirdreS: @sogrady [firstname]@joyent.com – thanks!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109842908580020224

2011-09-03 04:18:03

DeirdreS: Now a 3sday weekend to decompress and get my brain in order to get back to normal life… whatever that is.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109842566169624576

2011-09-03 04:16:24

DeirdreS: @sogrady Sure’ I’m always interested in measuring.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109842152992944128

2011-09-03 03:11:21

DeirdreS: Cider http://t.co/mBdVRHV
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109825781621997568

2011-09-03 03:00:04

DeirdreS: @llcrowe Dim sum and beer for me. I would like to find good hard cider in the US…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109822943667830784

2011-09-03 02:48:19

DeirdreS: Back home, feeling very surreal. And I seem to be shedding hair. WTF is up with that?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109819987342000129

2011-09-03 01:23:11

DeirdreS: @milouness Well, if you can’t think of a better occupation…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109798560576442368

2011-09-03 01:16:29

DeirdreS: @silveira We look forward to hearing how you like it!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109796876575981568

2011-09-03 00:13:13

DeirdreS: Now that that is over, I hereby resign as family travel agent. So very over that.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109780954234621953

2011-09-03 00:06:22

DeirdreS: @lskrocki thanks, glad to be back. Never want another week like this again.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109779231080333312

2011-09-02 23:47:27

DeirdreS: I’m at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) (SFO Airport, San Francisco) w/ 176 others http://t.co/HP6LDQX
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109774470075527168

2011-09-02 09:16:05

DeirdreS: @udomsak http://t.co/iIQ7jqj #Joyent
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109555183914188800

2011-09-02 09:05:43

DeirdreS: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN EYE HOSPITAL AND IT’S FOOTBALL ACADEMY – YouTube http://t.co/D13QFKq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109552573350031360

2011-09-02 07:28:13

DeirdreS: @bdha The dreams I remember are all weird, I guess that’s normal for dreams
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109528036684218368

2011-09-01 22:02:05

DeirdreS: This awful week will end with 12 hours in a middle seat on a United flight. At least at the end of it I’ll be HOME.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109385563316031488

2011-09-01 21:02:33

DeirdreS: @LisaBloom maybe that was the warning – brace yourself!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109370584231718912

2011-09-01 20:54:40

DeirdreS: RT @bgorda: RT @HPC_Guru: Congratulations Rich Brueckner, on the first anniversary of taking over @insideHPC http://t.co/EOW4iLo #HPC
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109368597457010688

2011-09-01 17:58:43

DeirdreS: The Bamboo Casket http://t.co/XSzBJuG
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109324317644427267

2011-09-01 17:22:10

DeirdreS: Back in London, flying back to SF tomorrow. Completely drained.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109315122459197440

2011-09-01 22:28:57

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Words about Al

September 20, 2011 Deirdre Straughan Leave a comment

Ruth at Al’s Farewell

31 August, 2011

Thank you all for coming today to be with Al …..

When I was trying to plan this Farewell to Al, my brain went into overwhelm several times with the most spectacular episode occurring on Friday night – I wanted to make sure everything was perfect for his send-off to his next big adventure, that we could together somehow today sum up the essence of who he was and what was important to him in life – I wanted to do things in the right order, make it all flow perfectly, tell the right stories, have the perfect music, the perfect readings, make sure family and friends didn’t repeat stories, etc, etc, After my meltdown on Friday, I realised that this was impossible and that if Al had been in the room with me, he’d have been saying, “Come under my arm and have a cuddle for a few minutes and don’t worry – trust yourself, you’ll know what to do.’

So I woke up Saturday morning and I DID know what to do ….. we were going to get together in one place around Al, we were going to play some of the music he loved, hear from some of the people he loved, listen to Rabbi Shulamit grant his last request ….. and then, we were going to go back to our house, sit out in the sun if it’s a nice day, eat and drink, talk about him some more and probably cry – at least I know I will – and after today we’ll go on carrying him in our hearts and keep on remembering things he said and did – funny things, touching things, irritating things.

So, that’s what we’re going to do!

We all know that – in no particular order – he came from New Orleans and loved the place and was devastated after Katrina, that he went to Vietnam as a civilian, that he lived and worked all over the world with impoverished people to help make their lives a little better, that he loved his American and English family and friends, had a very strong set of values about right and wrong, was passionate about books, theatre, musicals, that he taught himself guitar, loved history and politics, was a true socialist, loved Asia, always had 5 books on the go, was a walking encyclopaedia – although strangely enough was not always right!, loved shaggy dog stories, hated exercise apart from high adrenalin activities like parachuting, scuba diving, and trekking in the Himalayas, that he loved to tell stories – usually more than once! –

That he overwhelmingly curious and was a seeker all his life……..

We all know that Al always introduced me as his “third and last wife’, that the night I met him in Jakarta at a theatre group, he came up to me and said “You’ve got to come out and have dinner with me “, to which I replied “Why’ to which he replied “Because I’ve always wanted to go out with a woman I could look in the eye!â€ So I did. We danced all night – as usual I lost my shoes in the crowd which he eventually found, we ended up in a sweaty heap in the middle of a huge traffic roundabout under a statue of Rama and talked all night.

We were together for 24 years and as you all know we had a good many ups and downs about numerous things. This last 4 years when I looked after Al was a hard time for him and me, but it was also a very special time. We often said that even though a lot of things had seemed to fall apart we felt blessed in that we could be together right then. I remember one particular afternoon shortly before he passed away when we were having a cuddle and just being quiet. We started talking about what true intimacy and connection with another person was and we decided that that was what we had at that moment …… and it felt like the best thing in the world …..so peaceful.

Al was a fighter always looking for the next way to fix his body ….. one of the last doctors he talked to in Oxford was refreshingly blunt – he said – go out there and live your life! Al asked if it was ok to go sailing now and the doc said “do it’. The next Monday we went up to the Northampton Sailability club – a place with specially adapted boats for disabled people and we went out in a 2 person sail boat. It was a calm day and he loved it. The following Monday we went again – this time the sky was almost black and the water dark grey and the wind was gusting. We sailed away from the pontoon hanging on for dear life. We never did quite understand the ins and outs of the sails and the wind (but Al would tell you he did!) but Al was in his element – I was more than a little terrified. We decided to try and go in after an hour. He turned to me and said, ‘doesn’t it say a lot about our relationship that we can now do this together as a team’. I agreed and told him I loved him. I’m so glad he had that day – he was walking on air, excited and connected to life again. That is how I will remember him, doing a goofy grin and being my lovely Bear.

Rossella, Al’s granddaughter

I find myself once again on an airplane to London, coming to the end of a great journey. Except this time, it isn’t my own.

Al was never the granddad that could teach me to ride a bicycle or swim; and due to the distance between England and all the places I’ve lived in so far, our visits weren’t as frequent as either of us would have liked.

I do however have terrific childhood memories of a lovely cottage in the countryside with a big garden to explore, cats to chase, cakes to eat and best of all: a squeaky staircase leading to the cosiest bear cave I’ve ever set foot in.

My grandfather was always a rebel, something I learned at a very early age when he let me sit in the front seat of a tiny, yellow convertible. “But my mommy says I’m too small to sit in the front!” I guiltily admitted. “Well, we just won’t tell her then, will we?” he readily replied, teaching me a most valuable lesson: mothers’ concerns become quite irrelevant when it comes to riding in a convertible with a wonderful man.

There was also a certain play-doh bucket behind his favorite chair in the living room.
Those were the days when he and Ruth were smokers and rolled their own cigarettes. It took me years to finally realize why rolling a cigarette out of what was in the play-doh bucket had to be our little secret, and to this day it tickles me to realize how hopelessly hippy he was.

A true child of the sixties, he spent his lifetime seeking knowledge and thrill across the world; appreciating life in its every crazy aspect.

In the past years granddad and Ruth’s has been the home base for all of my life changing journeys. I would visit them on my way TO somewhere and then again on my way back.

Unfortunately I’d be so overwhelmed with emotion (stress from the impending departure or recovery from culture shock) that I’m afraid I wasn’t very present and willing to sit down, listen and empathize with the phase of life they were going through. My grandfather on the other hand would seem to know exactly where I was coming from. Whether I was wrapped in Indian fabric or heading to the outskirts of Sydney to ride horses, he would have an appropriate speech prepared on life and how glorious it is. Nothing would phase him, in fact it all seemed rather normal to him at time when maybe other people didn’t quite understand the logic behind my decisions.

Most importantly, granddad thrived on knowing all about my life. I’ve never met anyone else who would call me to his room, slap the empty side of the bed and exclaim “come here! sit down! tell me about your life”. I took it for granted, and I now realize: as simple of a request as it may seem, how often does it actually happen?

There wasn’t one judgmental bone in his body. Every sentiment or concern I expressed was completely valid and precious to him.

It’s hard in times like these to gather one’s thoughts about life, death, how we feel about losing someone and what they meant to us.

I am a confident person, however my biggest fan and confidence booster is now gone for good and I know I’ll miss the little things. I’ll miss the bed where I would sit and talk if I wanted to, or observe his latest grand project in the making while he sketched away on a pad, groaning from time to time and asking Ruth to bring him something to eat – preferably something sweet.

I’ll miss the simple pleasure of sitting in a living room together watching television, sharing a meal

It may not have been a conscious effort, but his sense of adventure and, really, lack of fear led up to what became a novel worthy life story. This obviously rubbed off on my mother, and eventually and unsurprisingly, me.

I am twenty-two years old and I have lived in four continents, worked a variety of jobs and had my heart broken one too many times. I know this is a lifestyle I probably wouldn’t have adopted had it not been for my grandfather, and although it has its downsides, I’m quite convinced the best is yet to come.

Ian, Al’s son

Eulogy for a Character:

I’d like to start with a definition.
Char.ac.ter
1- the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person
2- an outstanding person: one of the great characters of the century
3- an odd, eccentric, or unusual person: he’s quite a character

Yes these are all things that could define my dad. Actually I’m pretty sure they had to make up those definitions to define him! He was indeed a character who had character. I’d almost be willing to bet money that the character of â€œMost Interesting Man in The Worldâ€ was modeled on my dad.

They also say a man can be defined by the friends he has made and the family who loves him; having met many of his friends and being part of his family I can easily see what made my dad such a character.

I have not had the good fortune to know my father as well as many of his friends and other family members and much to my regret I did not get to spend nearly as much time with him as I could have wished for, but that made me value the time I did have with that him much more:
Sometime during my junior high or early high school years I got to spend one summer with my Dad back when he was living in Reston Virginia and it was one of the best times of my life. I don’t remember all of the details, my memory of days gone past is fuzzy at the best of times, but I do remember going white-water canoeing on the Upper Potomac at one point. However, my clearest memory was the day he took me to an Airshow and I got to go up for a ride in a rebuilt Stearman Biplane, an Aerobatics Biplane and me with a horrific fear of heights. It was an experience that was both terrifying and exhilarating and a memory I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. Looking back through the years I can say with honesty that that was one of the few points in life where I ever felt truly alive and I love my dad even more for giving me that experience.

It’s been a very long time since that fond memory and though I only got to see him one other time after that I know that he spent every day doing his best to live, right up to the very end. And that I think was his greatest quality; showing others how to live.

Forgive me a bit for descending a bit into geekery here, but I am what I am and I think dad would be tickled by the analogy; In a recent episode of Doctor Who, “Vincent and the Doctor” in which the Doctor and his companion Amy Pond shared an adventure with the tormented Vincent Van Gogh. At the very end of the episode the Doctor is comforting Amy when she thinks that nothing they did for Vincent made any difference in the end and the Doctor says; “Life is a series of good things and bad things, I believe we added quite a bit to his pile of Good Things.”

And that is what dad did for me and for all of us, he added a lot to all of our piles of good things.

Nancy, one of Ruth’s oldest friends and, for the last 17 years, Al’s friend, too

Ruthie has asked me to say a few words about Al, to remember him by – as if we could ever forget.

Ruth, of course, has known Al for ever and a day, they’ve been adventuring together for 24 years, overseas, in America and in England. I got to know him when he came to live and work here, as the husband of my very dear friend.

And when I sat down to think about him, I always saw him with Ruth. Al and Ruth, Ruth and Al. So this is a tribute to Al – and to Al and Ruth.

What was Al like? He was big, he was untidy, he lived with Ruth – and he loved her.

He loved to talk and to eat and to play – with his family and his friends – and especially with Ruth.

He loved politics, he read history and he devoured the news – and he and Ruth would spend hours talking about the world and everything within it.

He loved religion and philosophy and big ideas, and he wrote and he googled and emailed and he talked – and he saved his most insightful and most intimate thoughts for Ruth.

He sailed and he played guitar and he read book after book – and he did everything with enthusiasm and he liked doing everything best – with Ruth.

Ruthie was his greatest fan, his strongest supporter, his beloved wife. He simply adored her. They drove each other mad, they made each other laugh, they loved each other through and through. We all know that about them, that is Al – and Ruth.

Al was a socialist and an admirer of the NHS. In recent years he spent a lot of time admiring it up close and personal as he suffered from increasing ill health. But I think it’s fair to say that many of the nurses and doctors who looked after Al admired him too – for his determination, his will and his fight to keep going.

He loved life and he loved Ruth and he didn’t want to leave her – but in the end, despite Ruth’s wonderful care, the hospital’s ceaseless cure and his own strength of will, he died, in peace – with Ruth – as always – by his side.

It is my privilege to speak today, in memory of a fine man, who had a wicked sense of humour and a big heart.

As family and friends you’ll have your memories of Al, too. If you’d like to share your memories back at the house, that would be wonderful. But if, like Al, you like to save all the best things for Ruth, please talk quietly to her, or write to her afterwards – these memories of Al are precious to her.

Thank you.

Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu

Hesped for Al Straughan

I first met Al when he came to our local synagogue one Saturday morning with his friend Davida. It’s a very funny thing, because we had a special kind of service on that day, one we had just started doing, and which we only do two or three times a year. If it had been the usual kind of morning event, I think Al might have listened with polite attention and we would never have seen him again. But I clearly remember this. There was no sermon on that morning. There was hardly any of the usual ritual. But there was this. A short piece of text and a long and wholehearted discussion. No one told anybody what to think, much less what to believe. This was our Jewish experience at its realest, lots of people in the room and lots of different opinions. And at the heart is this, the notion that it is in the struggle, in the argument, in the spaces between our different positions that we might find the truth. Al was taken aback. He was, in our English way of saying it, gobsmacked. He loved that it was real, and also, with his passion and background in the theatre, he loved the sense of drama and story. With his instinctive pull toward metaphorical truth, and a respect for the mystical, Al came back. And he kept on coming back.

As his health declined he managed somehow, to keep on going. He talked about his spiritual life. He conjured up the emotional high of the Baptist revivals, the dogmatic certainty of the Catholic Church, the tensions of the faith inside his childhood home. He had an instinctive distrust of religious conviction. His many years of living in the Far East were not only vital outlets for his passionate drive to mend the world, what we call, in Hebrew, tikkun olam. They also brought him into contact with a gentle and open spirituality wrapped up in a way of life.

But this was somehow not quite enough. When his health declined in the last twelve years of his life, one of his many pursuits was a wide ranging novel, Shadowmirror. This winding mystery novel, set in his childhood New Orleans, explored parallel planes of existence, the relationship of men and women; voodoo and even had a Jewish thread. It was this Jewish thread that led him to the synagogue, ostensibly for further research.

But Al quickly found what he did not know his heart was looking for. Here, no one would tell him what he had to believe.

He was only asked to learn, to practice and to think. These three were not without their challenges. Always a willing student, he read voraciously, and kept a list of questions to ask me. Yet it was difficult to marshal his thoughts. His wide raging intellect would nimbly leap from topic to topic, and it wasn’t always easy to see where next his thoughts would jump. His most common question was “why’. His declining health made Jewish practice enormously difficult. Yet he came to synagogue whenever he could, and he made an impression on everyone who knew him. I think the last time he came; he told the leader of the choir that when she sang he felt the heavens open. He was well loved. He was a loveable, honest man of strong convictions and character, and he gave his spiritual struggle everything he could. I am only sorry I never knew him at his physical best. But I knew him at the time when he was perhaps, at his spiritual best. He struggled, till the end, for coherence and meaning, a struggle, we learn, that is never complete. Al told me that he thought a lot about the book of Job as many people do when they are sick. Job is a book that refuses the quest for an easy set of answers. Job must hold fast to his own hard earned truth.

Al was looking for this underlying truth, the unity, or one-ness, behind our different languages, our different cultures, different ritual expressions. He wanted to get to this ultimate truth, this essential indivisible One. This was the drive between every one of his free ranging questions, his voracious reading, and his practise of meditation. And though it sounds so simple, finding this truth, and holding on to it, is a complex, challenging struggle. He gave it his best. And the struggle, too, for the essential, undivided One, in turn sustained him.

Zichrono nl’veracha, may his memory be for a blessing.

Zvi Friedman – a member of the synagogue

31 August, 2011

Al was a big man with a passion for the big questions in life, questions of science and religion.

Sadly, because he’d been so unwell during the last year or so of his life, we didn’t have many opportunities to sit and talk about these things.

Here is a book belonging to Al, which he insisted that I read. It’s a book about astro-physics, by a Japanese American academic Michio Kaku and it’s called “Parallel Worlds, the Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos’.

This was clearly a book that Al treasured. Page after page are marked with coloured stickers, indicating passages, some heavily underlined, that were for Al of great importance. Some are labelled, such as this one; it says. “Survival of intelligence.”

I have to say that I didn’t get too far into this. It’s complex stuff, demanding a commitment to the philosophy of astro-physics strong for Al, but less so for me.

Yet it would have been good to have had the opportunity to talk more about these great ideas.

But Al’s spirit is now free of our trivial earth-bound concerns.

Somewhere in my mind is the hope that his intelligence will survive, and perhaps he will now know more about his future in the cosmos.

But for we who remain, well, I feel I’ve lost a friend.

Mandie and Paige

We’ve known Ruth and Al for 8 years, and was very sad to hear of Al’s passing. Al and Ruth touched our life’s in a big way more than what I think Ruth realises, I’ve never met such warm hearted, wonderful people who I didn’t realise existed in this world. We feel so privileged to have known them both. They have been there for my daughter and myself more than my own family and friends. One thing I’ll remember Al for was the day he called me in the lounge and gave me an envelope which had a card and money inside it, he said â€œRuth and I don’t have much but we know what its like to have hard times and we would like to give you this to help go towards helping you out, as I believe if you do a good thing for someone it will be returned back and you and Paige mean a lot to usâ€ . Well Ditto Al you meant a lot to us and we will never forget you and what you believed in.

Mandie and Paige xx

Addis

I’ve known Alton for over 60 years. So many memories!
As boys we often built houses out of cardboard naming them VAN THUTCHER MANSIONS,
why, I don’t know. We then joyfully would burn them with great pleasure adding sound
effects of screams. Perhaps this was early creativity?
We suffered through the years in a school we hated. Then with freedom, I fled to NY.
Alton to college. He was frequently here. Lord, we were so young!
I remember drinking cheap wine and passing out behind the carousel in Central Park.
. . all night. Alton insisted we spent a lot of time talking with Alan Ginsburg one
night. I don’t remember. . . .Wonder if Mr. Ginsburg did?
As the years passed, we stayed in touch. I remember when Deidra was born, I saw her
grow up.Then her little one. Alton was all over the world, and I was also.
These last years were hard, I know. He always stayed close via email and the
telephone. When I didn’t hear, I knew things were bad. Ruth, you were his anchor.
Bless you. . .
Thorton Wilder said the best tribute to the dead is not grief, but gratitude.
I will close with these words.
Thank you Alton-

Charlie Blank

August 19, 2011

Kathy & I send our sympathies to you and Ruth. Alton was a month younger than I and we went through school together and then off to LSU. We roomed together just before I married. Celeste was a frequent visitor. I remember Addis, who lived across the street from Alton while we were growing up.
The last time we corresponded, we differed about the afterlife. He could not believe that there was not something after death; I called it the Great Void. We would enjoy arguing passionately about such things.

Leslie Posner (and Nathan Cohen)

30 August, 2011

The sad news came on Tuesday, the earthquake on Wednesday , the hurricane warnings and landfall on Thursday to Sunday. This week’s mid Atlantic blockbuster meteorological drama, with its previews, performances, curtain calls and reviews felt like a cosmic salute to a mega force husband, father, and dear friend.

After all of these years of roller health and optimistic endurance, helped greatly by Ruthie, he went out with a shake, rattle, and strong whoosh–leaving debris in his wake.

All of us who love him, and those he loved–Ruth, Deidre, Rosella, and Ian–are trying to find our balance again. Here in Baltimore, we walk carefully through fallen branches and downed wires, and wait for the electricity to come back on.

He kept the lines buzzing between us for over 35 years, wherever we were, and was recently pushing me toward Skype, yet another new level of communication, along with Indonesian, which he encouraged me to pursue.

I am in no hurry to sign on now, as I know that the connection can never reach far enough, that the messages will no longer be returned.

But I have many memories to rewind, including those of our late June visit, and promise to help all of you keep sharing them as best we can.

Donna (Davida) Huchel

28 August, 2011
(Met Al in 1983; collaborated on numerous theatre projects in Indonesia and Herndon/Reston, Virginia.)

Al Through My Eyes

Al forged many enduring friendships as he navigated a world which never seemed quite big enough to contain himâ€”or his enthusiasm. Mine was one.

If I had to use a single word to describe Al, it would have to be â€œcapital Câ€ Creative. The creativity that allowed him to restructure government ministries, found businesses, return to school for a Master’s in set design, write two novels and change bare stages magically into other worldsâ€” a pre WWII Cabaret, a Transylvania mansion, the second smallest town in Texas, a pajama factory, an IRA hideout. This creativity gave Al the ability to imagine, during his long years of illness, a miracle cure, followed by a pain free existence which would allow new travels, new businesses, new adventures.

Along with the optimism wrought of his fertile imagination came an appreciation of what he had in the real worldâ€”and at the top of that list was his Ruthie: his lifeline, rudder, sounding board, and incredible â€œfirst mateâ€! While he â€œsailedâ€ through many cultures and cultivated many lasting friendships along the way, Al never lost the love of his Louisiana roots (evidenced in his 2nd manuscript and 30,000 conversations with me), nor the mighty appreciation of his adopted English homeland, and all it did for him.

Al , as everyone who knew him appreciates, lived BIG in this world. No reason to think he’ll do otherwise in the next!

Curtis and Dee Wood

Austin, Texas, USA
28 August, 2011

Been there, done that.

That’s what comes to mind when I think of Al. He lived a full life- fuller than most- and enjoyed a wealth of experiences. And yes, it was hard to find somewhere Al hadn’t been, or something he hadn’t done.

While he was here in the states exploring yet another religious belief system, I heard him referred to as having “an old soul”. If, indeed, souls come and go through various bodies and times here on earth, I do believe Al had been here and back more than once.

I’ll remember his Indian cooking–always a delight to the tastebuds, and his passion for the theater. And his passion for Ruth. He knew what a treasure he had found when he met Ruth and didn’t hesitate to snatch her up as his mate for the rest of his life. I never did get to thank him for coming back to Texas for awhile, where I had the good fortune to meet both of them.

Thank you, Al, for doing another gig in Texas and for including Curtis and me on your list of lifelong friends.

Niamh and Graham

August 29, 2011

Thank you so much for all the love expressed through your post. Graham and I were privileged to know Ruth and Al in the Maldives where we shared many a fun evening and became really good friends. There was a infamous Murder Mystery Dinner party that will forever stick in my memory!! Probably helped that I am a great musical theatre addict as well.

Our return to the UK was pretty much at the same time as Ruth and Al and I have been aware of Als’ health probs over the recent years. We were just speaking on the phone a few weeks ago about him feeling well enough to come up and visit us in Norfolk in September. I love the photos of Al in good heart.

We shall miss him greatly.

Simon Barnes

26 August, 2011

A lot of people thought Al was an unlucky guy. I am in a unique position to know that he was not. He was one of the luckiest guys on earth, because he loved and was loved by [Ruth] for 24 years.

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Dad’s Funeral

September 3, 2011 Deirdre Straughan 1 Comment

I didn’t take many photos – too much else to deal with.

Ruth asked if I wanted to speak and I supposed I did, but wasn’t sure what I was going to say. I work best to deadlines, so I pulled a few notes together in the car on the way to the crematorium. What’s below is more or less what I remember of what I said, but I’d welcome corrections from anyone who was there and remembers more than I do.

My Eulogy for My Dad

Every life has a million stories, and we all see those stories from different angles.

Dad was a great storyteller, and not one to let too much truth get in the way of a good story.
We’ll surely be sharing lots of those today.

I was born in 1962, when my dad was only 23 years old – barely an adult himself. In some ways he never grew up.

But today I want to concentrate on the good things I learned or inherited from him. A lot could be said about nature vs nurture, but I had plenty of both from Dad. He was the one fixed point in nearly 49 years of my turbulent life.

My dad had a strong sense of justice. Both of my parents were active in America’s Civil Rights movement – crosses burned on our lawn – which, in a way, culminated in the election of President Obama. I worked a little on Obama’s campaign for that reason.

This sense of justice came from his love of people, and his belief that everyone in this world should have equal rights. We’ve already heard that Dad loved musicals, and this brings to mind a line from the great American musical Oklahoma!, expressing a very American attitude: “I don’t say I’m no better than anybody else, but I’ll be damned if I ain’t just as good.”

He believed that everyone had a right to equal treatment, health, wealth, and the pursuit of happiness, and he worked towards that in many parts of the world. Although I’ve spent most of my career in the corporate world, some of that has rubbed off on me in the way I approach my job and the people I work with.

Another trait of Dad’s was that he knew Storytelling, and the uses of it. This has definitely carried over to me, including, as those closest to me know, the idea that any story worth telling once is worth telling again. 😉

Dad had great courage, including the courage to live an unconventional life, which he did so thoroughly that he left me as a teenager with nothing to rebel against. I had to retreat into bourgeois respectability for 20 years. But I’m recovering.

Perhaps he paid for it all, he certainly put us through it. But I think he would have said, with the great songwriter Kris Kristofferson: “The going up was worth the coming down.”

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…then we all went home and drank a lot.

“He’s a walking contradiction, partly truth, and mostly fiction…”

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The Twitter Diaries: June 5-August 22, 2011

September 3, 2011 Deirdre Straughan 1 Comment

8 years ago: Buffy the Vampire Slayer – My Favorite Obsession @amber_benson #

4 years ago: Growing Up in Boarding School #

2 years ago: Producing Social Media #

hmm, seeing spam links on bit.ly again. Does anyone actually see spam when they click on a link of mine?#

Dice are rolling, the knives are out…#

Spending the afternoon with a bunch of hunky cowboys. (@ SFGMC Hootenanny!) #

…and I’ve got a ringside seat for my beloved Ethan Pope! (photo, top) #sfgmc#

Just posted a photo # (see top)

Never thought I’d hear deep in the heart of Texas in San Francisco#

She sounds like a girl. She IS a girl!#

Just posted a photo http://instagr.am/p/F9P0U/#

There won’t be bad hair days in heaven http://instagr.am/p/F9QGp/#

@SniperWulfzen it’s the #sfgmc – always a great show!#

I can never hear the song San Francisco without thinking Fuck Anita Bryant#

Spent the morning talking node.js, now at the #sfgmc concert, tomorrow off to Milan. Yes, this is my life.#

An appropriate sleeve for my #Kindle #

SFGMC Hootenanny! #sfgmc#

I’ll Be on My Way #sfgmc#

I’m at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) (275 S Airport Blvd, San Francisco) w/ 113 others http://4sq.com/mdteCD #

Sonuvabitch is BIG#

Just posted a photo http://instagr.am/p/GBtY9/#

.@jamescmcpherson Video can’t/shouldn’t totally replace the written word, each has its uses.#

Slept some on the plane, but it’s going to take a lot of coffee to convince my body it wants to be awake right now.#

@trochej Glad to do it. #illumos#

Long ago, I’d be disappointed if I arrived at an airport and there was no one to meet me. Then that became routine. But it’s still kinda sad#

Someone dear to me (and to many others) has died: Robert Alter-Alumni-Woodstock School, India #

Bob Alter Book Presentation #

so my site is definitely victim to a weird hack which sometimes shows spam pages. Any ideas?#

Back in Milan for the first time in > 2 years. Feels strange.#

@lucaconti Wow. You are very brave. Please come back alive! #Afghanistan#

Why, yes, I am going to torment you with food Sometimes it’s the little stuff that matters, like good bread #

Marinated raw seafood aka Italian ceviche

Pasta wih broccoli and clams. Never had this combo before, very good! #

besides eating lots of good food, spent the evening in conversation, in Italian, wih a former colleague. Warning up those language muscles#

Brendan’s blog mpstat videos http://bit.ly/k0zlrL #

#sfgmc YouTube – I’ll Be on My Way http://bit.ly/iKzCrF #

In case you were wondering: yes, it is very, very hard translating technical training on the fly.#

staying awake in hard to o…#

So thanks to a wise friend found out my blog has suffered the pharma hack. Removing it may be beyond my abilities alone, but I’ll have help.#

@billblum Thanks. I think I’d better wait til I’m not collapsing with jetlag to tackle that.#

@rbanffy the downside is you won’t be there to drink with them#

Massive jetlag plus air conditioning outage = about to go to sleep on the table#

Milan doorway #

I hadn’t intended this to be a food tour of Milan, but when knife-cut prosciutto and burrata appear, what ca (cont) http://deck.ly/~HHkVB #

I take my job as hostess very seriously, even when it’s no longer my country (if it ever was, even after 17 years).#

@LusciousPear Well, dammit, now I’m far away!#

@sogrady @vambenepe Absolutely. It’s the teaser to get people to click.#

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Just generated a #TweetCloud, my top words are: people, joyent, time – http://w33.us/9q1g (http://twitpic.com/5f7dna)#

@ryancnelson good for you!#

RT @rosannecash: Happy Birthday, Kris Kristofferson, 75 today. As dear to me as a brother. http://lockerz.com/s/113102378 #

This one’s for @jeffreytaylor #

A hard day’s work deserves… a giant mozzarella, flown in fresh from Naples. #

Two branzini and an orata. We ate the orata, or one of its kin. #

Crochette (potatoes n stuff, breaded and fried and YUMMY) #

@jeffreytaylor honestly, BlueBottle is as good – except for the ridiculous lines. and the price.#

@NomdeB it was an outdoor table, otherwise wouldn’t have been a smoking area. But no one was smoking.#

Absolutely miserable with allergies. Probably just as well I’m spending the weekend it Milton Keynes instead of on Lake Como.#

Wedding Vows in days both wretched and joyous, from this day forward, as long as you wish this from me http://bit.ly/jrYR98 #

@craigmorgan Oh, I know – have spent a LOT of time there. But it’s where my dad lives (after a lifetime in many more interesting places).#

Allergies so bad I want to claw my eyes out. Now I remember one of the things I hate about Milan.#

Sorry, Netflix is not available in this country yet. At least let me queue up a movie I’d like to watch when I’m back in the US! Sheesh.#

@RaggedPoint Lived in Italy 17 years, it’s all sadly familiar. I know the workarounds, but want it fixed at the source. #netflix#

YouTube – Bryan Cantrill interviewed at Velocity 2011 http://bit.ly/mUdUVO #

Tried to get better allergy drugs, pharmacy closes for 3 HOURS at lunchtime. And you ask if I’m nostalgic for my former life in Italy…?#

.@pfuetz Yes, but as a US-based customer, why not give me access to my movie database from elsewhere, even if I can’t watch til I’m in US?#

.@pfuetz I understand the (stupid) restrictions on viewing the films. All I want to do is queue up something to watch when I’m back in SF.#

@pfuetz Got that. 😉#

in Italy, order a cappuccino with your meal. It alerts the waiter that you know what you’re doing http://econ.st/lE1gJk #

Fantastic Art Deco gate in Milan. #

YouTube – Oh, What a Beautiful Morning #sfgmc http://bit.ly/iH5VHS #

#SFGMC with very beautiful music inspired by Brokeback Mountain – Meet Me on the Mountain http://bit.ly/kpWRCB #

Up early, but got ~6 hours of sleep, 3x the night before. Busy day ahead, starting to pack up my stuff at the former family home in Lecco…#

…then ~3 hr schlep to Malpensa to get a 2-hr flight to Luton to visit my dad. Yeah, this is my glamorous biz trip to Italy.#

@NomdeB Don’t know how much I’ll be able to bring, just doing excess baggage. Shipping from Italy ridiculously expensive.#

http://t.co/wWtFsCX #

Milan getting ready for Pride. Sorry I’ll miss it both there and in SF. http://t.co/hwUY7wc #

Milan Central station has had an upgrade, but the trains… http://t.co/FqoMXKh #

Had time to kill at Stazione Centrale in Milan today. Can’t believe I got this photo. #

Very cool purse: upcycled soda can tabs, crocheted together. #

Lecco to Milton Keynes: car + train + train + bus + plane + taxi = 8 HOURS. Europe makes itself feel large by making travel inconvenient.#

@wayfaringrob My dad was a hippie, doen that count?#

Pizzocheri! http://bit.ly/3eI9Pd (and the lady at Taverna ai Poggi remembered me,). #

Gallery: Milan Central Station http://bit.ly/mPobUk #

Damn. Gonna have to struggle to clean out this pharma hack – affecting my traffic badly. Fuckers.#

This day in 1981 I graduated from Woodstock School http://bit.ly/izmKcO – Yes, we’re having a big party, later in the year.#

6 years ago: Transport Surprises on Lake Como http://bit.ly/iRAXu8 #

Since I can’t be there this year: last year’s video of SFGMC in SF Pride http://bit.ly/9qd5RM #

@bubbva Haven’t got that far yet, trying to follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/dfxwa0 #

one of the tersest and more remarkable rejections of conservative economics ever penned by a conservative http://bit.ly/mwPBxf #

the UK isn’t any better for my allergies right now, may even be worse. Vacation in the Sahara is beginning to sound very good!#

The Twitter Diaries: June 5-18, 2011 http://bit.ly/iV1uwO #

@willbldrco Right now deep Sahara is sounding pretty good.#

@CommunispaceCEO Maybe because of people who use Google’s search box as their URL bar?#

Yes, I’ve been awake since 3 am. At least in this timezone. No matter, must get up about this time for the next 2 days, + travel, packing.#

@trine Yes, very Norwegian! 😉#

added the full photo gallery to: Villa Monastero: Varenna, Lake Como http://bit.ly/bkNp4s #

Trip home already looking like a hassle. 1st leg is on Alitalia, so KLM directs me to their site to check in. And they won’t let me.#

@riccardo_iommi I wish I could say I have missed Italy, but the frustrations still outweigh the joys for me.#

Closing my Italian bank account. They need 3 days to figure out how much money is left and give it back to me. Isn’t this a BANK?…#

…but, in true Italian style, they were accommodating and got it done anyhow.#

my daughter is earning more in her starter job at Apple in Austin than I did in my last job in Milan. Hell YES I wanted her out of Italy!#

Need expert mode for customer service hold lines, to NOT tell me things I already know but cannot do. If I coulda done it myslf, I woulda.#

And to think I used to love traveling.#

4 hrs sleep + 7 hrs travel + 4 hrs packing = desperate need for a nap. Sadly, I am vey bad at napping.#

deeply tired, but will I be able to sleep for the 3.5 hours available to me tonight?#

No athlete, I excel at the travel triathlon: baggage pack and lift, airport dash, seat collapse.#

The Dutch have a charming habit of assuming that I am Dutch. But then, so do the Germans, English, Scots… Everyone except Americans!#

This is more like it. Thanks @KLM – trip not a hassle after all. That upgrade was very well timed. http://t.co/uZqJtO4 #

Trip far better than feared, on most fronts. But glad and relieved to be home.#

@ditucci @nonstick O gonna pay you the same regardless, if you’re already an employee anyway#

I feel a bit out of focus. Too much to process from this trip. Thankful for jetlag – takes the edge off.#

Summary of my visit to Italy: good friends, great food, but I don’t miss living there. In so many ways, I need more than la dolce vita…#

…I couldn’t afford la dolce vita anyway. What I had was hardly dolce – and this is true for most ordinary Italians http://bit.ly/ifORts #

.@NomdeB Very true. It’s never been US vs Italy (or anywhere else) but where can I have the most of what makes me happy in one place?#

Of course we all know that in the Real Italy, everyone sings opera all the time http://bit.ly/cxCt6t #

.@NomdeB Wait til you see my apartment in SF. 😉 I like living small – less to clean, less unnecessary crap because there’s just no room.#

Fuck. Site still hacked.#

Trying to fix horrible eye irritation from seasonal allergies. (@ Dr. Bert M.D. Office) http://4sq.com/iKBsxd #

@izs I’ll take real geekspeak over marketing babble any day.#

@deeharvey Talk about taking candy from strangers. 😉#

I’m awake! I’m awake! No, I’m not…#

.@NathanFillion Well, then, let me introduce you to my Italian daughter and long-time fan @RossellaLaeng #

Jetlag does weird things to me. Was’nt hungry most of the day, then bolted down Chipotle tacos, chips, guac, & an entire Lindt pistachio bar#

If I can’t clear my site of the pharma hack, I’ll be faced with the interesting challenge of getting traffic without search engines.#

…and/or the search engines will need to get smart enough to realize that I don’t write about (ahem) male enhancement drugs.#

RT @benr: Best. Video. Ever. http://youtu.be/KCSA7kKNu2Y – I only have a few friends left like this, thank Zod…#

Ok, the chocolate bar is explained. Hormones. Gah!#

It Just Doesn’t Matter http://bit.ly/jUXHRP #

@ianhf That’s certainly more pithy than what I had in mind.#

The Org Charts Of All The Major Tech Companies (Humor) http://read.bi/iSJcRh #

Huh. I have just been asked permission to include this artcle in a college textbook: http://bit.ly/mEtJxu #

why does Google+ think I know Michael Arrington?#

Finding room for the 3 suitcases of random stuff I brought from my old home in Italy. Gave bales of clothing to charity – little fit anymore#

4 years ago: Italys Amazing Summer Fruits http://bit.ly/jPEBIB #

@ryah You dared to use your phone in a foriegn country, right?#

Here and now, worlds collide. http://t.co/wvmoZHq #

I’m at Joyent (345 California St, #2000, San Francisco) http://4sq.com/j2xRYx #

My one meeting of this pre-holiday Friday is over. Time for beer yet?#

@vdotw AP English, actually… now trying to figure out what that’s worth.#

We are firing the women so they can stay at home and look after the children…what they bring in is a second income. http://bit.ly/isN9rD #

.@italylogue @michellefabio Excuse me while I go and vomit… http://bit.ly/luOWr1 #

This is seriously cool. – MySQL Query Latency with DTrace 2 http://bit.ly/kv3IwM – Thanks, we think so, too. 😉#

@saraford That’s why I wanted my daughter OUT of there. Now she works for Apple in Austin. Mamma knows best. 😉#

xkcd: Hofstadter http://bit.ly/kBxH95 #

@denizrende Put. Down. The. Keyboard. Go have some fun!#

Feeling emotionally dizzy. Had a lot to process in the last 12 days.#

New/recovered wall decorations… http://t.co/A2pXy8k #

I just love Ravana’s shit-eatin’ grin. http://t.co/SNrxzm6 #

@Myrna_SF we can certainly arrange to meet – I don’t have particular plans thru the week. Looking forward to it!#

@pelegri I recall ~4000 blogs listed, but not all were active at the same time.#

Flowers in the Windows http://bit.ly/lEa22r #

.@pelegri Sun’s attitude towards employee blogging was even more significant. Don’t be stupid – and they trusted us for the rest.#

Jetlag and/or allergies… I feel as if a truck has parked on top of me.#

Id like to think that the most prosperous nation in human history can have both freedom and security. http://wapo.st/jR0KNQ #

Treating monogamy as the main indicator of a successful marriage gives us unrealistic expectations http://nyti.ms/mOuTOV #

Forget something, Larry? http://t.co/txGXGfj #

2 years ago: President Lula of Brazil Meets OpenSolaris http://bit.ly/j7uehw #

5 years ago: Watching Football http://bit.ly/lteIue #

6 years ago: International Marching Show Bands in Lecco http://bit.ly/jVXBMo #

4 years ago: Biopsy: Digging to China Through My Breast http://bit.ly/k07qhb #

1 year ago: A Dinner Party in Wonderland http://bit.ly/bfqT8R #

Fine with That http://bit.ly/kMNXDT #

I’m at Joyent w/ @davidpaulyoung http://4sq.com/ripNiM#

oh my. I’m going to Austin Friday. It’s 50 degrees hotter there than here.#

I am very happy to announce my new position as SmartOS Community Manager at Joyent. Watch this space for news!#

@chrisridd We couldn’t live without each other. 😉#

…and it’s kinda cool to be able to say My new boss is on Wikipedia.#

@bubbva What goes around comes around or Everything old is new again – take your pick. 😉#

@italylogue ouch, I still owe you that…#

@sogrady @bcantrill does? I’ll see what I can do#

@UnLogikal That there will be a community. 😉#

@sogrady well, I do have a little something already stashed away…#

@sh1mmer You suffer so for your art.#

@sh1mmer Ok then, you’re forgiven. 😉 I’ll tell @brendangregg he needs a firepit next time he’s writing a book.#

I don’t actually need Skype, FB, etc to remind me that my daughter was born 22 years ago today!#

.@Sarahcarr Relevant becuz, the world over, women are told they invite rape by dressing provocatively. With this woman, there’s no excuse.#

@CetasAnalytics @LusciousPear Reminds me of a scene from Bring It On.#

@rosannecash We have similar taste in men, I see… #BridgesKristoffersonByrne#

maximizers are less happy than satisficers. http://t.co/2gnasE3 http://t.co/oDU41Tx#

@UnLogikal it may, can you give me more details? firstname@joyent dot com#

If I’m still in bed with a cup of coffee but answering email etc., does that count as work?#

@fitzage my fingers are doing stuff, not sure the brain is connected yet#

Don’t know if I’m this is a summer cold, or allergies. Either way, should be better is Austin (currently enjoying low pollen counts and HOT)#

To see the new node meetup videos in fullscreen, go here: joyent’s Channel – YouTube http://t.co/bGpvqs2#

Just got yelled at by a taxi driver for not tipping him enough. Apprently driving me to the airport is doing me a favor.#

Opted out of the scanner, but didn’t get the promised pat-down. Should I feel cheated?#

I guess SFO wifi has a time limit bug doesn’t tell you that up front. Graceful.#

I’m at Cathedral of Junk (4422 Lareina Dr., Austin) [pic]: http://t.co/NieRQmW#

http://t.co/zJvr4p2#

WS India – Hostel Parkour – YouTube http://t.co/UxzglMz#

@elijahwright They gave you the good drugs, huh?#

Austins Cathedral of Junk http://t.co/dY7NWE5#

A pattern in my life: if I hang on long enough, stuff I want to do anyway becomes part of my job.#

Part of my problem with shopping is the obnoxious music they play in stores.#

Iced coffee at this Starbucks in Texas is nasty.#

Daughters neighbors have peacocks. Live ones. Only in Austin…#

At way too much at Fogo de Chao in Austin, and wish I hadn’t. But at least I didn’t have to look out for soy or peanuts there.#

Had occasion today to reflect upon how happy it makes me to work closely with frighteningly smart people, and to learn from them.#

http://t.co/wDtjCb4#

Barbacoa tacos: Sunday brunch, Tejas style!#

@jorbsd Welcome home. 😉#

digesting good food and mimosas, listening to fun music, doing work. Sorta.#

Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesnt Want You To Know About Him | ThinkProgress http://t.co/wRTKxf1#

@deirdresm Oh, crap, are scarves hip? I’ll have to stop wearing them.#

http://t.co/rF8gvF4#

http://t.co/hL1gUoL#

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. #

It would be really, really nice if I could sleep.#

my new home: SmartOS.org http://t.co/LPktWhC#

Come on down to http://t.co/j2s0kvf – we’re giving it all away!#

@billblum Yes, we like to know exactly how much ass we tick, and how hard. 😉#

this by special request of @sogrady: Computing History with Bryan Cantrill SmartOS.org http://t.co/paXzYW0#

@urbanturbanguy http://t.co/F2rpaCA #Joynet#

Screenshots SmartOS.org http://t.co/5MQJAGa#

@bcantrill waitaminute… you have slides done HOURS before your talk? Did the world end? #illumos #kvmforum#

@pelegri http://t.co/InJpf4c#

Sitting here in limbo (@ Magnolia Cafe South w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/vXRp605#

@mfernest root/root I believe#

@joerussbowman oops#

SmartOS Downloads, Day 1 SmartOS.org http://t.co/xDZw0Z6#

I feel as if we should be singing We will, we will ROCK YOU!#

@3rdEden They wake up earlier, and Asia hasn’t hit yet.#

@talios http://t.co/eNjVl9f username: rootpassword: root#

Just ordered a pink purse. That’s got to help something, right?#

@DeirdreS root/root works#

Dinner http://t.co/zzSWTMR#

The view from the pool on a hot Texas evening http://t.co/lnTqK4V#

Cupcake run successfully completed! http://t.co/abqantd#

@xenbu eBay#

I’m about to run out of parents.#

Over the last five years, he says, I’ve had the pleasure of gutting the Sun kernel team. http://t.co/sjUGw0B#

@shawnferry Me, neither.#

@trochej ? #SmartOS #OpenIndiana#

@trochej Jason? I’m not gonna tell him how to behave. And, at this time in my life, this month especially, I have no use for subtlety.#

I’m at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) (3600 Presidential Blvd., Texas Hwy. 71, Austin) w/ 20 others http://t.co/ljGWK85#

@trochej for a small company with little marketing budget, it’s a very good strategy. We can’t plaster the world’s airports with billboards.#

@Gibheer not yet, but soon#

Waiting for a final phone call. The glamorous international life really sucks when you are far away from your loved ones at the wrong time#

@fabiokung Nah, we don’t bite. 😉 #smartos #kvm #illumos#

My father has died.#

at least I have him, too, on video: What am I Doing Here? An American Civilian in Vietnam http://t.co/Oy4ejzb#

@saraford We’ll be taking his ashes to New Orleans at some point and hopefully having a proper jazz funeral. It’s what he wanted.#

@jimpick Thanks, I wish he’d gotten more recorded or written down. But he was convinced he was immortal.#

From the rockin’ of the cradle to the rollin’ of the hearse, the goin’ up was worth the comin’ down http://t.co/vlswrAp#

Al Straughan, 1939-2011 http://t.co/yZimaj3#

Ryans Rough Guide to the SmartOS ISO SmartOS.org http://t.co/KasWO3R#

@jeffreytaylor So can I get some chorines to come to NOLA and sing I’ll be on my way ? I think that would be appropriate.#

@jimpick Yes, in many ways I’m definitely my father’s daughter, and will probably become more so.#

@lkateley thanks. But we’re still on for tomorrow – distraction is good.#

It appears that mourning does absolutely nothing to cure the common cold. You’d think I could be excused from physical annoyances right now.#

Spinning up SmartMachines to house SmartOS community communications vehicles. Yes, we drink our own champagne.#

Heartfelt thanks to everyone for the thoughts and hugs. I’m at work, which for me is good therapy and distraction.#

work in progress: SmartOS Technical FAQs SmartOS.org http://t.co/XkRBwLE#

@rbanffy w00t!#

@openindiana Hey, whoever is in charge of community for you guys, we should talk.#

Slipping back into my community manager role (something I’ve been doing off and on for >15 years). Tools change, techniques not much.#

…and this community appears to be moving at lightspeed!#

@mikemaccana sorry, we’re a bit behind schedule on that, but working on it. Please see http://t.co/Vo13EzS#

@jeffreytaylor Or you can just not watch broadcast TV. 😉#

A man walks down the streetIt’s a street in a strange worldMaybe it’s the Third World…http://t.co/02so6jD#

@rbanffy I can’t take credit for that, but I like it better than dogfood!#

Ain’t it funny how we all turned out – I guess we are the people our parents warned us about http://t.co/FVCdUdW#

Father forgive us for what we must doYou forgive us we’ll forgive youWe’ll forgive each other till we both turn blue http://t.co/XzrdY3P#

the banks are made of marble,With a guard at every door,the vaults are stuffed with silver,That we all sweated for. http://t.co/ZnP9VEC#

SmartOS USB Key Image Now Available SmartOS.org http://t.co/nIpOCSj#

community contribution: Serving SmartOS from your PXE server http://t.co/GIzcr6B#

Are Michele Bachmann’s Views About ‘Christian Submission’ Even More Extreme Than She’s Letting On? | | AlterNet http://t.co/iJxR6fc#

@Graftolistic do you have screenshots of the OSs you’ve booted under SmartOS KVM? Would love to show those on the smartor.org blog #joyent#

Apparently grief is like jetlag: the first day I feel fine, then everything goes to pieces.#

@italylogue Thanks – it’s good to get advice from one who knows. Unfortunately, this is something most of us go through sooner or later…#

@saraford thanks#

@openindiana yes, wd love to, and I’d like to know how to explain to people that they can get the new OI release with KVM. Follow me here!#

@jacques kayak.com#

could I just sleep for a week?#

@billblum Fortunately, discussing is easier than porting! Talk is cheap, after all. 😉#

@jeffreytaylor Indeed. Dose that get a golf clap? 😉 #shameless#

How Rich is Too Rich? : Sam Harris http://t.co/FDBjzu3#

@storagebod please tell us more! How do you like it? There’s a feature you may be esp interested in: http://t.co/EKsh2Rs#

My Dads Death http://t.co/crioblK#

@hridaybala Thanks. Yes, he was rather amazing. I’ll have more to say about that in future…#

The Tea Partys generals rank and file are more concerned about putting God in government. http://t.co/rJ3sdtO#

@brendangregg OMFG#

Suddenly, in a moment of blurry eyed recognition, DTrace, ZFS, and SMF become very sexy… you become a devotee. http://t.co/YQ6UeNF#

According to Twitter: Similar to you @bcantrill Bryan Cantrill#

@gsyoungblood No worries – we’re all working very closely together and plan to continue to do so. We want the whole ecosystem to thrive!#

@jeffreytaylor the patent wars employ lawyers#

More OSes Booted Under SmartOS KVM SmartOS.org http://t.co/vIJE3q6#

RT @wattersjames: The tweet is mightier than the press release. – amen!#

I’m not depressed, I’m just sad.#

International travel for a funeral between UK and US holiday weekends, covering expenses for 3, with a weak . This just may not happen.#

@lderezinski Exactly, and for international travel bereavement fares often just don’t exist.#

For family tensions, undercurrents, and drama, funerals outdo even weddings.#

@jeffreytaylor If it was up to me… We need to catch up this week. Over many stiff drinks. As you say: it’s all going in the script!#

.@arne_d Have you met our team? @bcantrill @brendangregg @dapsays @pijewski @rmustacc + Jelinek, Bruning, others non-Sun but eq brilliant#

.@arne_d …and it’s not just us. There’s also a nascent SmartOS community, and the Illumos and OpenIndiana communtites. So… yes!#

RT @adambusch: Funerals are not for the dead.#

@SethGreen Hmm, I thought you were an alphabet letter-of-the-month club delivery man.#

I didn’t know grief would be so damned exhausting.#

Oh, with everything else going on, I forgot to mention: I started my personal newsletter and website about 10 years ago, in July, 2001#

10 years ago: How to Eat Like an Italian: Fundamentals of the Mediterranean Diet http://t.co/qZc5uva#

4 years ago, video and photos: Roasted Green Chiles at the Las Vegas (NM) Flea Market http://t.co/rErgU6v#

2 years ago at OSCON, Jack Adams and Sriram Natarajan on Using DTrace to Analyze Your Webstack http://t.co/C52rdg0#

a year ago I translated: Learn Italian in Song: Tu Vuo Fa o Talebano http://t.co/cCAVcPe#

PBS was showing folk music. Made me weep for singing with my dad, and for a time when people believed music could make a difference.#

New SmartOS Wiki SmartOS.org http://t.co/A8T3iaj#

seems somehow appropriate at the moment: Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water – Montreux 2006 – YouTube http://t.co/97HlPYm#

post by Max Bruning: Its here! KVM on Illumos SmartOS.org http://t.co/RBJXhct#

Explaining cocks http://t.co/XS2ScsJ#

.@bobthomson70 Don’t tell me we’re going to need a heatmap for this, to add the linguinstic/regional 4th dimension…#

You’ll see it’s all a show, keep ’em laughing as you go…http://t.co/yUZJN7W#

Learned from my dad’s untimely demise: I should start writing my autobiography NOW. Problem is, much of it strains credibility.#

@urbanturbanguy Baingan bharta would get me to show up, but chocolate is also good (not at the same time).#

@mfernest You’re welcome. Good contributions should always be recognized. #InternetPresenceOhYeah#

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The Twitter Diaries: Aug 23-31, 2011

September 1, 2011 Deirdre Straughan Leave a comment

(In reverse chronological order.)

DeirdreS: @jasonh Looks like a wallpaper pattern
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109392325771395072

2011-08-31 20:21:19

^ Fill in the blank as you deem appropriate.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108997818932396032

2011-08-31 19:31:28

DeirdreS: I don’t have any recordings of my dad singing. Damn.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108985272586350592

2011-08-31 14:20:11

^ Going out in style
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108906937449590784

2011-08-31 09:08:10

^ Yes, that is a bamboo casket.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108828412440887296

2011-08-31 09:06:57

DeirdreS: @rosannecash is Kristofferson on Twitter? I’d like him to know we’ll be playing his music tomorrow in memory of my dad
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108616980201869312

2011-08-30 18:23:30

DeirdreS: I’m supposed to say something at my father’s funeral tomorrow. I’m good with words, but this time have no idea what to say.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108605779887669248

2011-08-30 03:57:00

“sincere religious believers have the most to lose if faith becomes a matter of poll-time dogma and lung power.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108387719150960640

2011-08-29 22:59:20

DeirdreS: RT @billblum: RT @rudepundit: No shit Irene was a message from God, @teambachmann. The message was “Climate change is real, you fucking …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108312807174455297

2011-08-29 21:27:25

DeirdreS: RT @scottherson: Job opportunity: Inside Sales Manager at Joyent – San Francisco Bay Area #jobs http://t.co/Xvq8naW
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108289677647294464

2011-08-29 21:20:36

DeirdreS: @OrganizeFISH I’m sorry to hear that you also have reason to mourn right now, did I miss news about you somewhere?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108287959631020032

2011-08-29 16:46:03

DeirdreS: @KatieS and who pays the bills? Nice work if you can afford it…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108218867184185344

2011-08-29 16:40:39

DeirdreS: Meeting a friend. This is head-bending. (@ Apple Store w/ 5 others)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108217511429939200

2011-08-29 15:39:58

DeirdreS: @metadaddy I’m in the UK, so this isn’t an Americanism. And I’ve seen (and drunk) 2 different brands.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108202235921563648

2011-08-29 15:36:05

DeirdreS: @metadaddy The label says “pear cider’, I’m not fussed either way.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108201261949648896

2011-08-29 15:23:01

DeirdreS: Drinking this lovely British invention, pear cider.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108197973384642560

2011-08-29 15:22:16

DeirdreS: @jasonh I’ll take one. please
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108197781679775744

2011-08-29 15:04:47

DeirdreS: Neko lives! Awww… Node Neko by Team-IIJ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108193385835270145

2011-08-29 14:59:01

DeirdreS: Wow, looks like some fun and even useful stuff was created this weekend: Entries â€šÃ„Ã® Node.js Knockout
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108191930948657153

2011-08-29 12:28:37

“Whether they realize it or not, listening may be the most valuable thing anyone can do.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108154081176072192

2011-08-29 11:46:04

DeirdreS: RT @PJCrowley: What we saw prior to and during #HurricaneIrene were engaged and competent governments in action. As citizens, this is wh …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108143377182240768

2011-08-29 09:54:43

DeirdreS: @lderezinski Sorry to hear it, thinking of you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108115352906510336

2011-08-28 20:43:45

DeirdreS: @node_knockout not outside the US it ain’t 🙁
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107916300612943872

2011-08-28 20:43:17

DeirdreS: @lderezinski didn’t you just say schools will be closed tomorrow?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107916181247238146

2011-08-28 18:41:58

DeirdreS: @smaffulli Where are you going?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107885653022347265

2011-08-28 15:52:23

DeirdreS: left ear completely and painfully blocked only heightens my sense of dislocation from the world.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107842974121074688

2011-08-28 15:50:54

DeirdreS: arrived London. Must have slept some on the plate, not nearly enough
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107842602723835905

2011-08-28 15:46:59

DeirdreS: @jimpick Funny, seems as if there ought bo be some sort of Google memorial marker
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107841614587760640

2011-08-28 02:02:51

^ You can’t tell in this photo but one of the pilots is a woman. I’m always absurdly pleased by this.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107634216975609856

2011-08-28 00:57:43

DeirdreS: at SFO. Again. Would really have preferred to stay home…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107617823093817345

2011-08-28 00:51:08

DeirdreS: RT @StorageMojo: SmartOS.org: Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM in 1 OS. Run Windows & Linux apps in VMs. From Joyent. Cool!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107616168658993153

2011-08-27 23:30:12

DeirdreS: RT @node_knockout: wow, 24 teams have already deployed.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107595801546600449

2011-08-27 23:26:12

DeirdreS: RT @timfoster: Being thankful for #dtrace + Python in Solaris – I don’t have to do lots of that stuff, phew #kiwipycon
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107594794016051201

2011-08-27 23:25:00

DeirdreS: RT @peteryorke: Scaling WordPress in the JoyentCloud Part 2
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107594491950665728

2011-08-27 23:24:45

DeirdreS: @fitzage did you get the squirrel butt?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107594430025957376

2011-08-27 19:25:32

DeirdreS: Completely freaky: I can find a Google maps photo of my dad’s house, and be quite certain my dad was there when they took the picture.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107534228815749120

2011-08-27 16:59:16

The experience is brutally physiological: It literally takes your breath away. This makes grief hard to communicate.Â
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107497417808691201

2011-08-27 16:42:36

DeirdreS: @hudsonette Oh no! I was already feeling sorry for people with BoM tix for tonight, didn’t know I actually knew any of them.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107493226553933824

2011-08-27 15:40:17

DeirdreS: @dexterous Good work! 😉 #dtrace #devopsdays #bangalore
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107477542616825857

2011-08-27 03:54:15

DeirdreS: Lesson for the day: At least one Wikipedia editor contradicts himself.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107299861979856896

2011-08-26 22:04:44

DeirdreS: @ryancnelson That’s a fantastic idea. You can use my big monitor if you want #joyent #nodeknockout
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107211902819639297

2011-08-26 21:46:16

DeirdreS: .@SFist Now I know why I never need to go to Burning Man. I attended plenty of the equivalent at a far too tender age with /my/ parents.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107207258852687872

2011-08-26 18:58:50

DeirdreS: RT @robinbloor: Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm #humor – That actually is true.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107165119515082752

2011-08-26 18:56:58

DeirdreS: RT @corloff: RT @poultrykeeper: Bet with Boss. He says Twitter is a waste of time. He will give 50p per RT I get but I give him Â¬Â£10 if I …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107164651816615936

2011-08-26 18:48:32

DeirdreS: @lderezinski Impossible. These very noisy machines are very close to my desk.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107162529125498880

2011-08-26 18:44:35

“experiences that afford us new behaviors and engender new beliefs are the ones we remember.” Fast Company
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107161535570395136

2011-08-26 18:34:37

DeirdreS: time to dust off my London tube skills
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107159028257398784

2011-08-26 18:24:12

^ We can pretty much write off the workday…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107156404313391104

2011-08-26 12:28:24

DeirdreS: this is the last time I play travel agent for the whole damned family
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107066865297264640

2011-08-26 12:10:04

DeirdreS: When on hold, it’s probably for something I can’t do online, so the messages about how I could be doing this online are just cruel mockery
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107062251101495296

2011-08-26 12:00:07

DeirdreS: Oh, fuck. Daughter is supposned to change flights on the way to London for my dad’s funeral… Saturday night at Dulles. Fuck fuck fuck.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107059748033146882

2011-08-26 11:23:56

DeirdreS: @linuxdaddy I’m arriving Sunday, only in town til Tuesday morning. Got some time on Monday? I’ll be out and about.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/107050642211749888

2011-08-26 06:08:13

DeirdreS: I’m not crazy about the violin, but I loved this post
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106971187158065152

2011-08-26 05:40:37

DeirdreS: @metadaddy Oh, we’ll get there. I bought myself Legos, for me, but at least I’m pretty good about cleaning them up.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106964243760431104

2011-08-26 05:14:54

DeirdreS: RT @musicjulia: Marcel Chouteau: A Hurricane is Coming Up the Coast.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106957769231446017

2011-08-26 05:13:49

DeirdreS: I hate stubbing my toes so much, you’d think I would learn not to do it!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106957500699512834

2011-08-26 05:11:12

DeirdreS: @jeffreytaylor I am far from an expert on this, but I think the first step is to accept that you actually are hot.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106956839220031488

2011-08-26 03:47:21

DeirdreS: And more! How an earthquake affects hard drive and website performance | ExtremeTech
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106935740285452289

2011-08-26 03:46:15

DeirdreS: @missbhavens seriously, wasp stings hurt like a sonofabitch, and on your head…! ouch!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106935460315660289

2011-08-26 03:43:49

DeirdreS: @brendangregg: human earthquake!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106934847347490816

2011-08-26 03:24:02

DeirdreS: RT @ben1mal: Alright, last chance for a lonely Padawan to join up with a few good Jedi Knights in SF and win a MacBook Air. Just sayin. …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106929870952611840

2011-08-26 03:23:07

DeirdreS: @missbhavens There, there. Support support support. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106929641062797312

2011-08-26 00:28:02

DeirdreS: RT @openindiana: @vv111y We’re definitely very pro smartos and are very supportive of Joyent’s contributions – and vice-versa!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106885577361731584

2011-08-25 23:39:06

DeirdreS: @oneofth3m Cool, I look forward to seeing it in October
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106873262419607552

2011-08-25 21:56:16

DeirdreS: free (and amazing performances in the Bay Area Sept 8-17 Project Bandaloop | Bound(less)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106847386516725760

2011-08-25 19:15:26

Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel – YouTube
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106806911726403584

2011-08-25 18:38:28

DeirdreS: RT @joyent: Joyent is now part of the Open Virtualization Alliance
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106797608596553728

2011-08-25 18:19:34

Kinda hard to believe Leonard Cohen has outlived my dad – Hallelujah – YouTube
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106792849361739776

2011-08-25 17:37:07

DeirdreS: RT @mcavage: @massivescale it’s for real. We’re building the next generation of cloud user management on ldapjs+riak @joyent.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106782166482034688

2011-08-25 17:13:33

DeirdreS: @mcavage so you follow @rosannecash , right?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106776237212573696

2011-08-25 16:39:40

DeirdreS: RT @mcavage: LDAP and Node.js. Boom.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106767711174004736

2011-08-25 16:26:02

I learned about swearing responsibly from my dad long ago, when I was about 10 years old
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106764281432899585

2011-08-25 15:46:24

DeirdreS: That road you didn’t take? Sometimes it turns out to be a damn good thing you didn’t.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106754306308456448

2011-08-24 22:51:25

DeirdreS: @melanierenzulli damn, you’re right #SteveJobs #SteveJobs #SteveJobs
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106498877850517504

2011-08-24 21:57:36

DeirdreS: RT @brendangregg: the DTrace book has sold over 1,000 paper copies; thanks to everyone who got one!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106485332412862464

2011-08-24 21:41:58

DeirdreS: @linuxdaddy thank @johnnysunshine – it’s his work
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106481398130544640

2011-08-24 21:09:37

DeirdreS: Slides now available, too! Video: SmartOS: The Modern Operating System
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106473256852267008

2011-08-24 20:45:21

DeirdreS: @jeffspross @johnnysunshine …or female, or non-white…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106467151799521280

2011-08-24 20:18:10

DeirdreS: .@jeffspross And, conversely, the idea that if you’re poor, you somehow deserve it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106460310424141825

2011-08-24 19:18:41

DeirdreS: How to Use the SmartOS ISO Image – SmartOS Documentation – SmartOS Wiki
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106445341934624768

2011-08-24 19:17:18

DeirdreS: @edsai There’s always the marketing department. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106444991144001536

2011-08-24 18:38:38

DeirdreS: @edsai I took over “your” cube.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106435261013049344

2011-08-24 18:37:36

DeirdreS: @edsai Where are you?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106435002719404032

2011-08-24 17:33:29

DeirdreS: @elijahwright Hadn’t heard it, for all I knew I was making that up!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106418867882033152

2011-08-24 16:52:13

DeirdreS: @ryancnelson did you also keep both ears?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106408481598353408

2011-08-24 16:16:11

DeirdreS: Video: SmartOS: The Modern Operating System Â – Bryan’s webinar from yesterday
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106399414943367169

2011-08-24 15:56:24

DeirdreS: RT @pingles: we’re kicking off a london node.js user group: Â @teabass is organising, meet up in september
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106394434375139328

2011-08-24 11:10:44

“Thanks” and “sorry” are two simple words that can make a world of difference.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106322545313202177

2011-08-24 03:55:57

DeirdreS: Dad didn’t realize it himself, but when he played guitar, he always started with “The Sinking of the Reuben James”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106213126776684544

2011-08-24 03:50:03

Peter Paul & Mary – Puff the Magic Dragon – YouTube
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106211644388020224

2011-08-24 03:22:08

“In spite of it all, I’m able to grin, and think of the places my get up has been”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106204616055726081

2011-08-24 03:14:27

DeirdreS: But – what’s worse? A dad who went down fighting (and really thought he was immortal), or two mothers who decided to walk out of my life?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106202683039416320

2011-08-24 03:12:32

DeirdreS: I alternate periods of “Yes, I’m fine, why wouldn’t I be?” with “You tore my heart out and stomped that sucker flat.” Sometimes within 1 hr.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106202202875502592

2011-08-24 03:03:33

DeirdreS: @mtuckerb Wow, that close already?!? Excited for you guys. You are all very brave.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106199940748951553

2011-08-24 02:49:31

DeirdreS: Anchovies on toast, fresh tomatoes, Indian potatoes with spices, olives… international dinner! Oh, and Maker’s Mark 46.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106196408142532608

2011-08-23 22:59:35

DeirdreS: @vdotw Thanks. I’m sure it will lessen at some point, tho I have a feeling it’ll worsen first. Right now I’m probably still in shock.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106138545621708800

2011-08-23 22:54:50

DeirdreS: Kinda feel like a truck ran over me. Yes, I know this is all normal. Doesn’t make it any fun.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106137347330015233

2011-08-23 22:23:43

DeirdreS: RT @stevel: any systems developers (kernel/drivers) folks in the bay area looking for a super cool gig? my group at google is hiring.. …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106129517705310208

2011-08-23 21:01:23

DeirdreS: RT @SmugMug: The horror, the horror! Â #BestEngagementPhotosEver
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106108798028099585

2011-08-23 20:21:37

DeirdreS: @manufloresv Sorry about that, we’ll see what we can do. Any ideas on a platform that would work for all?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106098788787175424

2011-08-23 19:23:52

DeirdreS: @linuxdaddy Realized the day I’m available is a bank holiday, dunno if most Londoners will be out of town?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106084255595102208

2011-08-23 18:44:51

DeirdreS: @shawnferry Yes, I missed a big one in CA years ago because I was driving. #Earthquake
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106074438608498688

2011-08-23 18:10:39

DeirdreS: @timkennedy Ah, that was you getting evacuated? There will be a recording. And you can always keep asking questions.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106065831275937792

2011-08-23 17:41:11

DeirdreS: @wrighty Yes, I expect very soon!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106058416639840258

2011-08-23 17:38:11

DeirdreS: “SmartOS is usable for HPC, enterprise… many kinds of workloads.” Bryan Cantrill webinar
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106057662340399104

2011-08-23 17:37:18

DeirdreS: “SmartOS itself is entirely open source.” Bryan Cantrill webinar
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106057437785755649

2011-08-23 17:34:13

DeirdreS: “In SmartOS, if you break out of a virtual machine, you’ve only tunneled out to a larger, more secure cell.” Cantrill webinar bit.ly/oCTHOV
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106056660895801344

2011-08-23 17:32:08

DeirdreS: “Operators can decide where to virtualize in the stack, based on your needs. We give you the choice.” Bryan Cantrill webinar bit.ly/oCTHOV
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106056140034547712

2011-08-23 17:25:42

DeirdreS: @hudsonette Their taste in women seems somewhat similar.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106054520634740737

2011-08-23 17:21:18

DeirdreS: @sxa555 We’re all on Mac, FWIW
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106053412826783744

2011-08-23 17:20:43

DeirdreS: “In OS virtualization, the operator from the global zone has total visibility up and down the stack.” Bryan Cantrill webinar bit.ly/oCTHOV
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106053265107591168

2011-08-23 17:14:22

DeirdreS: “You can argue that those of us who write operating systems don’t know how to share very well.” Bryan Cantrill webinar
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106051666666729472

2011-08-23 17:08:25

DeirdreS: “DTrace helps you answer the age-old question: Why is my system sucking?”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106050169191137280

2011-08-23 17:07:02

DeirdreS: “ZFS is the only enterprise-grade storage stack that is open source.” @bcantrill in webinar
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106049823341416449

2011-08-23 16:42:10

DeirdreS: starting soon! The complete operating system for cloud computing: Smart OS. Joyent VP Engineering Bryan Cantrill webinar http://t.co/AIPvQIZ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106043563279785984

2011-08-23 15:02:12

DeirdreS: @erikbryn …and few people can afford them.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106018407358537728

2011-08-23 15:00:43

DeirdreS: In London Sunday afternoon to Tuesday morning, who do I need to catch up with?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106018034497490944

2011-08-23 14:57:51

DeirdreS: RT @SenatorSanders: “Since 1993, more than half of the nation’s income growth has been captured by the top 1% of earners.” – @TheAtlanti …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/106017311898611713

2011-08-23 01:21:54

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