“Fables”

The graphic novel series Fables written by Bill Willingham tells the story of how the European fables fled the Homelands for America and the subsequent trials and tribulations of these fables, their progeny, those left behind, and the fables of other lands.  Volume 18 is due to be published 2013 Jan 22.  This series runs…

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt: Why some say ‘The Kiss’ is better than the ‘Mona Lisa’ – CSMonitor.com. – 2012 July 14 I had the opportunity to see ‘The Kiss’ and other Klimt paintings and murals this April in Vienna, and then the Klimt paintings in the Neue Gallerie in NYC on the way home in NYC.  I…

Cloud Warranties and SLAs

What is implied warranty? definition and meaning. In light of the recent AWS outages, perhaps cloud products would be much better served by explicit warranties or SLAs (Service Level Agreements).  Such a warranty does not have to commit to any greater availability and performance than is already provided, but rather more clearly sets customer expectations….

Cloud Books

Is Your Company Ready for Cloud: Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business. – published 2012 June 21 Authored by IBMers Pamela Isom and Kerrie Holley.  Pam is also Chair of The Open Group Cloud Business Use Cases Work Group which has published complementary white papers, and has contributed to additional Open Group…

Cloud Industry Forum (CIF)

Cloud Industry Forum A UK-based company that is developing and supporting a “credible and certifiable Code of Practice” related to cloud adoption.  The company member list include some big IaaS / PaaS names such as Dell, Microsoft, VMware, and Rackspace; but does include any big name SaaS companies.  The list of white papers to-date is…

Cloud Sustainability Certification

Sustainability categories: environmental, social, and financial Determine the baseline CV for various types of Cloud Producers and their Suppliers, create a CV Report template, build the repository of CV calculations, and the develop the mechanism for auditing the calculations and CV Reports.

Community Cloud Case Studies

Agriculture Large-scale agriculture pushes use of pesticides, insecticides, inorganic fertilizers, mono-cropping, and GMO seeds to enable one crop farmer to manage more acres; and encourages factory farms to confine the animals, to use antibiotics, to manipulate genes, to use species-inappropriate feed, and to accelerate maturation / production (milking three instead of two times a day,…

Crop Solutions

Bayer to buy biopesticide maker AgraQuest for $425 million. – 2012 July 6 Perhaps Bayer CropScience represents the supply-side of the middle ground for agriculture: green greens.

My Parks

Penelope Gordon’s My Parks Pinterest board I encourage everyone to create a ‘My Parks’ list – whether on a social media site such as Pinterest or Facebook or on a piece of paper – and to share that list.  Include those parks which you look forward to visiting – your parks ‘bucket list’. This is…