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Brooke Gravitt
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
For more tales of woe, and some sound advice, check out this video from the expo floor:
Life is like a poem or a story; the most important thing about it is not that it should be long, but that it should be beautiful and interesting. - Helen Rowland
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30 Travel Packing Tips from Your Fellow Travellers
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"The biggest mistake that we made is that we always assumed we could ask for increases on every limit and at some point we asked for a bump on security groups and they said 'Oh, good God, no.' and we had to do a lot of refactoring and that was painful. There are apparently limits to the cloud. The sky's the limit but there is a limit."
- R. Scott Buchanan (@RSYBuchanan)
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
For more tales of woe, and some sound advice, check out this video from the expo floor:
Denver Maddux (@DenverMaddux)
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
For more tales of woe, and some sound advice, check out this video from the expo floor:
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. - Lydia Maria Child
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25 best rated destinations in the world 2018
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So, I went up to the Caprock tonight to shoot the moon and I had an hour to kill.
I thought I'd use my 50mm to get some shots for my photography class assignment "Shallow depth of field". I had my camera on the tripod, and was setting one of my Paparazzi figures up for a shot.
It was really windy up there, and my tripod fell - lens first, and crashed to the ground. It was sliding towards the cliff! I managed to catch it before it went off. Weird that one of my contacts posted a photo this morning and mentioned that her tripod rolled off a cliff in the Sandia mountains. I guess Karma got me back for teasing her, huh?
I learned a valuable lesson from my friend Andy after he dropped an expensive lens, and luckily his UV filter saved him - only the filter was broken. I put filters on almost all my lenses after that. I hope that's the case here; I can't get the filter off to see. It still focuses -- I'm pretty sure it's going to be ok. I'm just glad I didn't have one of my NEW lenses on at the time or I'd be much more upset. THANKS ANDY!
I think I'm going to use this photo for my class project -- I did use a shallow depth of field after all.
Fun story time! The power was out in my old home town after a bad storm the previous night. I went out for a photo walk. School was called off, so there were kids all over town having fun.
Several boys were fishing on the old train trestle (the tracks have been removed now). I shot a few pictures from a distance and then walked over to the trestle. One of the boys immediately walked up to me and said "why were you taking pictures of us!" "Uh oh", I thought, they think I'm some creepy guy and they're going to go tell their parents. I said something like, "I'm an amateur photographer and I'm taking pictures of everything, not just you". One of the other boys said "cool, take a picture of me with my fishing rod!" Another one shouted "you just missed the HUGE fish I caught! Didn't you see him jump back in?" I spent about 5 minutes talking to these awesome kids.
I was glad to know that my initial impression was completely wrong. Maybe the first boy was a bit suspicious of me. Perhaps he was glad to know that his initial impression of me was completely wrong. A good lesson that we can all take home.
Jamie Newbold (@JamieNewbold)
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
For more tales of woe, and some sound advice, check out this video from the expo floor:
Jeff Jenkins (@JeffEJenkins)
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
For more tales of woe, and some sound advice, check out this video from the expo floor:
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. - Albert Einstein
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Exploring East China Yangcheng Lake and Xianju
Original photo credit: Image by Gundula Vogel from Pixabay
First off, sorry for the quality of this shot. I've been away for a few days, doing a photo shoot for a training program.
This is me with my good mate Andy. We were staying at a pub near the shoot, and we had the whole night to kill. So what better way to spend it than having a few drinks, having a mini impromptu pub quiz, based on a 1980s set of Trivial Pursuit questions. Then having a three course meal with wine at the pubs restaurant, followed by more drinks with the locals.
It's just a shame i was in a state the next morning. Still it was a fun night, and the shoot went OK.
Casio Exilim, (poor focus) some ale called Spitfire, 1980s Trivial Pursuit , and a good time
Windows could not start because I had a window for the video card driver open while installing the latest video card driver for laptop. After the driver installation completed, Windows asked me to reboot.
The reboot sent me to this beautiful page where Windows wanted me to repair the file by "using the original Setup CD-ROM".
I sent a message to twitter about the problem and, my buddy, Jason replied with an easier fix.
His suggestion of pressing F8 at boot helped! Luckily the Last Known Good option placed me back into Windows where I could re-install the video card drives (and this time without additional driver windows open).
Lesson: When installing software, make sure your driver window is closed. =/
1. Starting Mark's scarf...February, 2005, 2. Intarsia? That sounds EASY! ::groan::, 3. Friends don't let friends do intarsia in the round, 4. These are supposed to be High-low-high, not low-high-high, 5. The JOG., 6. Re-knitting the entire scarf...almost done, 7. Attempt of easy embroidery, 8. Completed embroidery., 9. Wobbly Scarf
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Bernard Golden (@BernardGolden)
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
For more tales of woe, and some sound advice, check out this video from the expo floor:
This is what I get for not paying attention to the questions being asked.
Claire was talking to me while I was doing something on the computer. By now, after almost 16 years, you'd think she'd know better, but noooo.
She was asking me questions and I was grunting in agreement. Then she sneaked in, "Can I draw on your face with an eyeliner?"
And I responded, "Yes." The realised what she had asked.
David Zolotusky
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
For more tales of woe, and some sound advice, check out this video from the expo floor:
Tahiti Pearl Regatta
From May 16, 2012 to May 20, 2012
The most important regatta of the Pacific island is organised each year to be an exceptionally unique event combining regattas, sailing and canoes, human encounters as well as discoveries of charm. It’s the Tahiti Pearl Regatta. It is certainly the annual meeting point for those truly passionate about sailing from Tahiti and the islands of French Polynesia.
An exceptional location
The 2012 edition of the route allows the discovery of the islands of Raiatea and Taha’a, which share a lagoon, and of course Bora Bora.
The Tahiti Pearl Regatta is - and always has been - open to all types of sailing boats (monohull, catamarans, trimarans, private or chartered, even trans-pacific boats) with no size limits.
Each year between 40 and 50 boats from many different nationalities face off over three days, stopping the competition each night on one of the mythical French Polynesian islands.
The festivities begin from the 15th of May to the sound of Toere drums, Tahitian ukuleles and traditional song and dance.
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Kite Aerial Photography
Kite : Dan leigh Delta R8
Rig : autokap rig designed by Brooks Leffler
Cameras : Canon S 95
Wind : NE 08-10 knots
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Day 93 of 365: a year in songs and photos
Song: Quicksand, Thorn in my Side
This was an accidental picture. I forgot what setting I had the camera on and the flash went off. I wrote off the shot. Later when I was going through the photos I took outside today (none of which I liked) I decided this was the only keeper. Go figure. And it's not even that good.
I'm not going to write about thorns in my side, though. That could take days.
I want to tell you how I am an idiot and almost killed myself today.
It was a miserable, cold, rainy, windy, disgusting New York day. It even thundered, in the middle of winter. The weather was treacherous at times; the rain would let up a bit and then all of a sudden come down in a windblown deluge for about ten minutes, immediately flooding the streets (my ridiculously high property taxes still do not afford me a proper drainage system, I guess).
I had made lunch plans with a dear friend I hadn't seen since before my vacation and didn't want to break them, so I ventured out of the office at noon and headed to the diner, despite the rational side of my brain telling me this wasn't good driving weather. Who listens to their rational side, anyhow?
I was cruising along at a nice clip down a main street. When I say "a nice clip" I mean I was probably going too fast for the weather conditions. But there was no one else on the road. I was alone, thinking how the roads really weren't as bad as everyone said they were. What wimps! Ype, just me, the rain, the Von Bondies on the stereo and...........holy shit, when did they put a lake in the middle of the road?? All of a sudden, my car felt like a giant, unseen hand had taken control of it. It lifted a little bit and pulled left and pulled right and my windshield was plastered with a huge wave of water so I couldn't see and as the car was hydroplaning sideways through the enormous puddle, I looked out my side window to try to get my bearings and all I saw was the cement of an underpass and some guardrails and my life flash before my eyes.
Now, I've been in accidents before. I was in one not too long ago where I knew I was going to be hit from behind before it happened and all I could do was look in my rear view mirror and prepare myself for death (obviously, the death part never happened). I was doing much the same today. Just nonchalantly thinking to myself, as I was flying through air and water (allow me some hyperbole here, please) "Gee, I'm going to die now." And then I thought "I hope someone remembers to feed the cat when I'm gone." And just as I was about to renounce my agnosticism and repent for my plethora of sins, the car was back on solid ground and I was on my merry way to a cheeseburger and french fries.
It took about fifteen seconds for the whole thing to transpire. I think I missed two lines of the song that was playing while I was airborne. When the car settled down again, I played it real cool like and just started singing again without missing a beat. Just in case anyone was looking. And I'm sure if anyone was looking, they were saying "Wow, that asshole sure is lucky she didn't kill herself." What that person would not see was how bad my hands were shaking.
I drove about 20mph the rest of the way to the diner and took a different road back to work.
The moral of the story, kids? SPEED KILLS.
Well, it could.
And now, I must get Every Rose Has Its Thorn out of my head.
By the way, the song used tonight is in my top 20 of favorite songs ever. You can see it here:; youtube.com/watch?v=UPeDUHcld2E
Matthew Cwalinski (@mcwalinski)
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d hope it to. At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, attendees shared their deployment mistakes.
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I left the house as a sunset was about to start. My aim was to get the golden hour as the sun set on some churches in the area. But the cloud spoiled that idea - 2 minutes after setting off, the sun was hidden.
So a quick dash to the beach to try and get something atmospheric. It didn't work as can be seen from this. It was cold and windy and I had my settings all wrong and rushed. I'll learn for next time as this is a picture beyond redemption and I want to look back on it
You can’t change your reality as long as you think someone else is responsible for it. - Gordana Biernat
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Top 25 Romantic Hotels in the World 2018
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Listen, if you can run a mile, run a race.
You know what? Run a marathon.
Outrun a movie star.
If you can ride a bike, ride that thing.
Ride a bull. Ride a – ride a tougher bull.
Let’s watch this…
What kind of bull is that?
If you can move your hips, if you can dance, move your legs, move your feet, move the ball.
Is that Pique? Score the goal.
Yeah, that is Pique.
You like to fight?
Well pick on someone your own size.
Pick on someone twice your size.
Pick on him.
That’s not good…
Oh, uh… lesson learned.
If you can play table tennis, serve like that, beat the champ, beat her mentor.
C’mon you got this…
Beat Serena.
If you can beat your friend one-on-one, beat him.
Steal it, take it.
Sorry, girls.
Now, take your talents to the streets.
Beat the street court legend.
That’s good.
Beat that guy.
Hold on.
We’ve been waiting for this…
That was nice.
Good luck with that.
Everyone has to uncover the lessons of their own journey. - Mark Nepo
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12 Beautiful destinations in Thailand to explore, besides Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket
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...beautiful at first sight and looks simple to create but in comparison to the world around it, is actually more elaborate than it seems. In one swift movement, it can be taken apart, ripped to shreds, but that's when you learn to build up the strength to rebuild it, and make it even better than it was before.
Believe it or not, this amazing web was created by one little spider, in the course of a 12 hour period. We had just cleaned all the cobwebs from this one area and nothing, no nothing was here. The next morning, lo and behold this beautiful and complicated web had been woven with this small little spider, STILL spinning!
I was in awe at his/her one minded task and diligence...what a lesson to be learned today...
Show me the numbers:
1 bar white chocolate with macadamia nuts: 480 calories, 0 fiber
Total for the day: 2546 calories, 42 fiber
With this particular food I learned a lesson. I intended only to eat 1/3 or 1/2 as we watched a movie. However, I failed to portion it out and through out the evening the whole bar was consumed. Much to my dismay on the number of calories. However, it was a very tasty lesson learned.
Be so good at what you do that you leave people breathless by your performance. - Robin Sharma
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Just because someone carries it well, doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy. - Author Unknown
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25 Top landmarks in the world for 2018
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The Chunky Chicken Pasta Penne was okay. Not great, okay. Same with the photo. I should have taken more shots of this before calling it a day; I might have gotten it better focused if I had. #lessonlearned
...look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. - Hunter S. Thompson
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Popular attractions in Chiang Mai for your first visit
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When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know; or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth! - Neale Donald Walsch
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Agoda Vacation Rentals & Hotels Worldwide
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Featured speakers: Benjamin K. Rhodes, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting; James K. Glassman, Former Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; and Michael Crowley, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent for POLITICO.
One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it. - Albert Camus
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What to Do in Chiang Mai: 5 Insider’s Tips by Local Experts
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him. - Ernest Hemingway
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Top 25 Romantic Hotels in the World 2018
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If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! - Helen Keller
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European Road Trip Guides – Drive to Discover Europe
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