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At this point the Democrats are trying to reduce John McCain’s news cycles as long as possible. I just heard him in the news today for the first time in weeks.

AMD’s Barcelona surprises me out of the gate. Their quad-socket system bested the fastest tested Intel solution on the VMmark by 26% adjusted for clock speed, and by 8% straight up.

An excellent example of over-reaction. I, too was amazed by the capacity and size of the ferries when I visited Seattle. I’d hate to think that awe and curiousity would cause me to be suspected of wrongdoing.

The Votemaster has a great site.

Playing with Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 (thanks, Scotbuff) at work under VMware ESX to host WPMU/LDAP.

Via Bob Plankers.

I saw ‘Iron Man’ yesterday as well and overall, I loved it. If you see it, definitely stay until the end of the credits. You’ll get another 30 seconds of cool.

I had to turn off Tarski’s update notifications on my corporate WPMU install to get my Dashboard working right. Probably something proxy-related, but I didn’t feel like getting it work. Tarski is a great WP theme.

Here here, Karoli. Great post.

The Canadian dollar finally has some purchasing power!

Been tweaking around with this at work.

Via Scoble: Nice embedded Flash H.264 HD video stuffage.

Two issues I have with this post: WS2008 Server Core doesn’t seem to dramatically reduce the frequency of applicable patches, just the number required. Also, I patch my VMware clusters during prime time, not off-hours.