Beginning of this year I participated in the CloudSlam'09 conference with the paper devoted to a discussion on how the VM with interfaces to the Cloud can be designed and what are the major benefits of using the different approaches in core components of the virtual machine. You can access the full-text from this paper here.

It appears that alike discussions are moving with fast pace and they are going to be a main topic in the coming conference Storage Developer Conference 2009.

I'm leery of publishing some content which I didn't write on my own, but this one is worth mentioning. The Windows 7 RC Training Kit is invaluable resource for developer eager to learn the technology stack offered in the upcoming Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=12100526-ed26-476b-8e20-69662b8546c1&displaylang=en This kit includes a lot of different materials which will help you jump on the coding with the new platform.

Wow, some scepticists were mentioned 2010-12, but nobody predicted that in 2009 we are going to cross the 1 petaflop barrier in computations and the power available today with two supercomputers listed on www.top500.org where one is Roadrunner and another one is Jaguar. 1 petaflop is equivalent to thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

Just got back from the Genesis concert at United Center called Turn It On Again Tour. Phil Collins rocks! The performance was awesome, sound was perfect and visuals are excellent. He performed the best songs including Invisible Touch, Mama, Turn It On Again of course and many other well-known songs.