Our culture has tried to convince us we deserve to be able to retire – to remove ourselves from this thing called work. But is that a privilege or a curse? Research continues to mount showing those who retire at age 55 have double the risk of dying before reaching 65 as compared to those who work beyond age 60.
In The Prophet, poet and philosopher Kahil Gibran says this about work: “You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.”
Don’t become a stranger unto the seasons. Don’t step off the platform of meaningful, purposeful and fulfilling work. Gibran continues: “And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret…..Work is love made visible.”
I know you don’t want to stop expressing love to those around you.
I’m planning for my retirement party and my funeral to be on the same day.
Tags: die, gibran, kahil, love, retire, work
This entry was posted on July 20, 2010 at 9:46 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
What the software does: The goal of OpenStack is to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source software running on standard hardware. OpenStack Compute is software for automatically creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers. OpenStack Storage is software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of data.
Why open matters: All of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the project. We strongly believe that an open development model is the only way to foster badly-needed cloud standards, remove the fear of proprietary lock-in for cloud customers, and create a large ecosystem that spans cloud providers.
Who it's for: Institutions and service providers with physical hardware that they'd like to use for large-scale cloud deployments. (Additionally, companies who have specific requirements that prevent them from running in a public cloud.)
How it's being used today: Organizations like Rackspace Hosting and NASA are using OpenStack technologies to manage tens of thousands of compute instances and petabytes of storage.
Timeline: Openstack was announced July 19th, 2010. While many components of OpenStack have been used in production for years, we are in the very early stages of our efforts to offer these technologies broadly as open source software. Early code is now available on LaunchPad, with an inital release for OpenStack Storage expected in mid-September and an initial release for OpenStack Compute expected in mid-October.
Many more answers are available in the OpenStack FAQ.
This is looking good, An open standard for cloud computing infrastructure. Let's see how it plays out.
If the backend was compiled to an open framework, that would be great. Or use Lunascript for the front end, and map to a framework of choice for the backend. It would allow more people to be involved in Rails, Django, or other web frameworks then Lunascript, which is still unknown where it will go or be supported.
