A recent blog posting from Rackspace has the title Is OpenStack Broken?… Not So Fast, My Friend. It describes some of the statements that OpenStack is too complicated and hard to deploy as a perception problem because

...each of these refrains was largely coming from enterprise and mid-market customers who …

Back when I used to spend a lot of time building wiki software, those of us in the trade would use the term guerrilla wiki to refer to wiki software that you could easily spin up on a desktop or handy machine sitting under a departmental desk. This was done …

After receiving positive feedback from my earlier posting about the OpenStack Technical Committee, I've decided to run to be a member instead of just writing about it. What follows is my candidacy statement, required to initiate the process.

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A few weeks ago I made a blog posting in which …

Updated March 19th with additional feature information. Updated July 29th to describe where the p! commands can be used. Updated January 5th to indicate change in p! handling and the addition of [l <nid>].

Back in December I wrote Persistent IRC Considered Harmful. In there I complained about the way …