Navy and Air Force personnel are being shipped to Iraq to fulfill Army and ground combat roles. Some of them are not at all happy about this.

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Amazon Web Services is widely used by websites to host their back-end processing, databases, and for file storage. Prices are quite low plus it saves the websites from having to do complicated hosting. This is called cloud computing, everything lives on the Net and can be accessed from anywhere.

Google just jumped into this big time with their announcement yesterday of App Engine, a service somewhat similar to S3.

Conspicuous by their absence is Microsoft, who has no real cloud capability. Not only that, but Google already has Google Docs, which is the start of a Microsoft Office-like suite in the cloud. Is it a threat to Microsoft now? Not yet. But in a few years, absolutely.

Silicon Valley Insider explains why cloud computing is a disruptive technology that poses major problems for Microsoft, since, if you do things entirely on the Net, then you don’t need Windows software or Microsoft Office.

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This solar tower is already operational with several more coming.

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I just published dozens on new photos on Flickr. Subjects include kittens, Maui, protests, and more.

Here’s two of my favorites.

I took this photo of Eddie Vedder with a cell phone camera at an ANSWER LA antiwar protest in 2003 or 2004. It is by far the most viewed photo I’ve blogged. Polizeros was getting just a few hundred visits a day then. I posted this photo and got 7,000 visits in two days. Also got photos of Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Pedro Almodovar (visible in this photo too) speaking at the rally.

Surfboard fence. Maui.

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It will be the first commercial tidal turbine when it comes online later this year in Northern Ireland. Amazing, isn’t it, how many new ways to create clean power are fast becoming mainstream.

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