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Clouds to the left of me and Jokers to the rightToday

Actually Canton is east of Acworth but it ruins the song title if I do it that way…

Learn how the City of Canton saved taxpayers’ money with Google Apps

Say it Ain’t SoaToday

So Burton and Gartner have declaierd SOA dead. Here is mi latest twit thread on this topic…

Cloud Droplets #38 SOA is dead and Nick Carr is mad, Just to think I use to worry about things like thatToday

Drop 38

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How Eli Lilly Taps Into The CloudYesterday

How Eli Lilly Taps Into The Cloud

Looks like they are doing a webex this Thursday. See registration on the bottom of their post.

There Should Be a Law Against Bean Plant KillersYesterday

Coffee Beans
By Sande Wendt
January 3, 2009

It doesn’t happen often but every once and awhile someone entrusts me with a living thing they care about. As a semi-successful mom, you’d think someone would ask me to
watch their kids for a while, but it’s always more on the line of cats, dogs, bean plants. And they all flourished under my care.

Except the bean plants.

“Can you take William’s bean plant while we’re gone? He planted seeds for his class. It
sprouted and is doing quite well,” Vicki asked. I looked at the droopy sprout and agreed.
A little benign neglect is all it needed to thrive, just like my kids.

The plant in its industrial strength gray ceramic pot sat under a window and grew
stronger and greener daily. The tiny bean pods were a pleasant surprise. William had
showed them to me, but he was five–what did he know?–and I didn’t think plants that
small would pollinate. Hadn’t they overheard the abstinence-only sex-ed lessons?

I heard once that coffee grounds make great fertilizer for ferns so I figure cold coffee
must be a magic elixir for all houseplants. My kid’s first science fair project will be
studying the growth rate of plants nourished with water, coffee and decaf. My theorywait,
I mean, my kid�