1. NBC’s Olympics coverage proves the point that all the great technology in the world is wasted if the human element is forgotten. This has been a stunning technological display, accompanied by some of the most ignorant commentary and craven corporatism imaginable.
2. The sudden pivot to SDN in particular and networks in general scares me. Too soon, guys, you’re getting ahead of your customers.
3. I agree with @krishnan that it’s asinine to talk about how open source has “won.” This has never been a zero-sum discussion.
4. Our summer in Northern Illinois has been statistically equal to the norm for Tulsa, Oklahoma. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to live in Oklahoma; now I don’t have to.
5. Related to Thought #2, this talk of public-cloud consolidation makes me nervous. How can something be consolidated before it’s been allowed to mature?
6. Read my article about Citic and its new Singapore datacenter. Gaze in wonder at all the US vendors mentioned. Agree with me that cloud computing creates great jobs and that IT jobs are only going to be more sophisticated in the future, not wiped out.
7. Write a letter to your Congressperson and Senator and implore them to focus on how to rebuild our economy on technology in general and cloud computing in particular. Yes, write a letter. Don’t send an email, as most of them don’t yet know how to use it. And by all means, don’t tweet it. They’ll think you’re some sort of subversive.
Have a great week-end!