Rubénerd!

Keith Olbermann, Twitter:

If you're not planning on overdoing it for your Mom today, overdo it for all the rest of us who would give anything to overdo it for ours

Hey Mummy, remember that Mother's Day I carried a tray of food into your bedroom loudly singing Dean Martin, and you threw a book at me in horror? Or the time you flipped an entire plate of mie goreng onto your head on our last holiday, only to have you say in a sheepish little voice "oh... shit!" Or the time we just sat at that Starbucks in Paragon giggling for hours on end while people around us tried to figure out why? Good times! :)

I love you Mummy. Being silly just isn't the same without you.

With all this excitement about cloud storage, I thought I'd try something a little different!

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Tweeted from earlier today:

I'm coining a new term (you heard it here first). #PIE AKA #ProactiveInformationExchange to share knowledge to prevent #ShitHittingFans

I'm already used to PIE standing for something else, but I nonetheless wholeheartedly support this term and what it stands for. I'd attribute ~60% of the problems I've had in IT to poor communication, or lack of it.

You read it here... second.

Via @IntelMiner on Twitter. Some real posts coming again soon!

In 2011 I discussed how I was giving Google the benefit of the doubt regarding their harvesting of open WiFi data, and that it was consumer network hardware manufacturers that should be working to protect consumers. I was... at least partly wrong!

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While attempting to find the right diagnostic tools for a bunch of drives, in my sleep deprived state I figured if anyone would be able to help, it'd be Makise Kurisu! I should have just gone to bed.

Pixel art by homura on Pixiv.

John McDuling for the Australian Financial Review:

Optus and Vodafone Hutchison Australia have signed a deal to share and build critical infrastructure to boost coverage and bolster their networks for the launch of superfast mobile services. [..] Optus will be granted access to around 1000 additional sites [..]

My sister gets excellent coverage on Vodafone in Earlwood, but Optus is bad enough to be non-existent. Assuming this gets ACCC approval, this would be the quickest fix for our area! Something tells me I shouldn't get my hopes up too much though.

A wow moment after reading Yahoo News:

Microsoft Corp will invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble Inc's digital and college businesses, valuing them at $1.7 billion. [..] Microsoft will get a 17.6 percent stake in the new unit, while Barnes & Noble will own about 82.4 percent

This has the potential to shake things up big time, if they play it right. Will the Nook become a Windows Mobile device? Will Microsoft use B&N in their phone's media store to take on the iPhone and iTunes? Will this largely ignored mobile platform and this runner-up to Amazon fizzle out? I don't know! The battle lines are being drawn though.

And before anyone asks, yes I know that Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon, I just thought it was a fitting image!

Flick My Switch! An initiative being spearheaded by my good friend Sashin! Spread the word :D

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One of the current memes surrounding Google Drive seems to be how their logo was copied from Vplayer. As a logo nerd, I felt it my duty to clear the air!

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