(Also see the Paranormal Romance Novels post.) Peeves Why do sequel blurbs lead off with phrases such as “her greatest challenge yet”, “she must confront dark secrets”, or “she uncovers a dark plot that may forever change the face of Y”? Pish. I appreciate a series in which the characters – antagonists as well as…
Author: Penelope Gordon
Drought: Farmers dig deeper
Drought: Farmers dig deeper, water tables drop, competition heats up – CSMonitor.com. – 2012 August 13 print edition It’s very troubling when farmers are tapping into the water table to switch from dry-farming to irrigation in order to grow resource-intensive, annual crops such as cotton and corn.
CloudCon Security Panel
GoDaddy: Outage Caused By Network Failure, Not Anonymous Hack. Unified approach to data security. CSO = Chief Security Officer Escrow account, service support commitments – for example, for how many years is AWS committing to support its new data archive service (Glacier)? SLOs and SLAs – objectives and objectives with penalties RAS commitments – ‘5…
A Matter of Semantics
legitimate – definition of legitimate by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia The first three of seven definitions of ‘legitimate’ in the Free Online Dictionary are: 1. Being in compliance with the law; lawful: a legitimate business. 2. Being in accordance with established or accepted patterns and standards: legitimate advertising practices. 3. Based on…
Naruto
According to the covers, Naruto is “the world’s most popular manga”. A serialized manga in Shonen Jump, bound volumes are released every few months, first in Japanese and then in English (and other languages); the English version of volume 63 will be published by Viz Media 2013 Nov 5. Author Masashi Kishimoto has a team…
Adult Mystery and Suspense
Books by Patricia Cornwell Port Mortuary I hadn’t listened to (or read) a novel in the Kay Scarpetta series in some time. The detective elements and the technology was entertaining but the emoting of the main character got annoyingly overwrought. The reading by Kate Burton was quite engaging. Books by Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum Series…
Japanese English Ad Copy
2012 Nov 28 Out of context this ad copy from a 2012 Nov 27 JShoppers.com email is reasonable… but when paired with photos of the product – a medium brown puffy down coat with burnt orange lining – is amusing. From the same email this ad copy is describing another puffy down coat – only…
Big Data, Predictive Analytics
DMS = database management system; MDM = master data management; ETL = Extract, Transform, Load; EMR = Elastic Map Reduce; “Big Data means Big Analytics” Hadoop Campaign management Mass storage Unstructured vs. structured data Simple and complex event processing Business analytics Data in motion Data-driven business Data wrangling Herd data-cats Web analytics Data collection Data…
Cloud Job Titles
From 2012 August 16 TECHEXPO held in Reston, VA “Positions for: • Cloud Solution Architects • Cloud Computing Engineers • Security Cloud Engineers • Cloud Java Application Developers • Lead Engineer – Transition to Cloud • Cloud Operations Project Managers • Cloud Software Developers • Information Systems Engineers • Cloud Operations Technicians • Cyber Architects…
European Fairy Tales
Aesop’s Fables Aesop’s Fables – A new translation by Laura Gibbs Excelsior Avenue Poetry Club in Oakland California is thanked in the Preface. xxiv – reference to Syriac fables Grimm Brothers The Juniper Tree and other tales from Grimm Vols 1 & 2 The original 1973 publication of The Juniper Tree and other tales from…