Love Your Dog? You may love them more after watching this video

We have two kids and a dog.  In many ways our dog is like our third child.  In this 60 minutes video a dog owner thinks of his dog as his child.

Anderson Cooper: Do you view Chaser as a family pet? As a friend? How do you see Chaser?

John Pilley: She's our child.

Anderson Cooper: She's your child?

John Pilley: She's our child, a member of the family. Oh yes. She comes first.

Many people think of their dogs as children, but John Pilley has been teaching her like a child as well. By assigning names to toys, Pilley has been helping Chaser learn words and simple sentences.

Check out this video that shows the smartest dog in the world, and you may love your dog more.

Win X vs. OS X, Microsoft skips Windows 9 to 10

Microsoft just announced Windows 10, skipping Windows 9.  

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system will be called Windows 10, as the company skips version 9 to emphasize advances it is making toward a world centered around mobile devices and Internet services.

Wouldn’t it be funny if instead of Windows 10, it was Win X.  The ad battles between Apple and Microsoft would be so much more entertaining. Win X vs. OS X.  BTW, the apple guys always say “OS Ten” not “OS X”.

OS X, whose X is the Roman numeral for 10 and is a prominent part of its brand identity, is built on technologies developed at NeXT between the second half of the 1980s and Apple's purchase of the company in late 1996. The 'X' is also used to emphasize the relatedness between OS X and UNIX.

Check out this comparison between Windows 7 vs. Macs.

The Performance of Water Based Cooling Systems have Problems Because of Bad Words, No Don't Listen to Gwyneth Paltrow

I like discussing water in relation to data centers.  So I pay attention to when water shows up in the news.  Didn’t expect this one though.  Water’s performance is affected by bad words according to Gwyneth Paltrow.

I am fascinated by the growing science behind the energy of consciousness and its effects on matter. I have long had Dr. Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules behave differently depending on the words or music being expressed around it. Below, Dr. Sadeghi explores further.

The Dr. Sadeghi says.

In his experiments, Emoto poured pure water into vials labeled with negative phrases like "I hate you" or "fear." After 24 hours, the water was frozen, and no longer crystallized under the microscope: It yielded gray, misshapen clumps instead of beautiful lace-like crystals. In contrast, Emoto placed labels that said things like "I Love You," or "Peace" on vials of polluted water, and after 24 hours, they produced gleaming, perfectly hexagonal crystals.

So maybe what’s wrong with the performance in mechanical systems is the staff doesn’t spend enough time saying “I love you” and “Peace."

Gwyneth spoke at the Code Conference and said bad social media comments are like war.

Green Beret slams Gwyneth Paltrow: ‘Twitter hate is not war’

The Two 1st of-its-kind Fuel-cel Powered Data Centers? 1999 FNB Omaha & 2013 eBay

I was at 7x24 Exchange and there was keynote by eBay on Quantitative Comparison of Critical Facility Electrical System Architectures.  In this presentation eBay said they are the first Fuel-cel powered data center.  My immediate thought was, “hey didn’t we have someone else say they had the first fuel cel powered center present at 7x24?”  I checked the 7x24 Exchange conference program and yep one year ago was the presentation by First National Bank of Omaha.

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Then I was thinking maybe I misheard what was said.  eBay hit the news with its fuel-cel powered data center and found Sept 2013 so its not anything new that eBay has the 1st fuel-cel powered data center in the news

eBay turns on first-of-its-kind fuel cell-powered data center

SUMMARY:

The world’s first data center powered primarily with fuel cells has finally been switched on in Utah by its owner, eBay. Its an unusual test bed which will give eBay insight into cleaner power and distributed energy.

Digging further I found on the official eBay site that the eBay data center is the first Bloom Energy Servers used as primary power for a data center.

Our newest data center is the first in the world to use Bloom Energy Servers™ as the primary, on-site power source, instead of the traditional electric utility grid.

So eBay is the first data center powered by Bloom Energy Fuel cels, not the first data center powered by fuel cels.  Maybe I did mishear the presentation, and eBay said this is the first bloom energy fuel cels used as primary power for a data center.

Here is the 7x24 Exchange video of FNB discussing the lifecycle issues of running fuel cels for 14 years.  It was quite informative.