Cloud Computing might be a big waste of time. It sure has
a lot of hype to it. Google does this, google does that.
Whatever. What do the numbers say? Here is cloud by the
numbers.

  1. Cloud One Flying CLub - mkay http://cloudone.org/
  2. A dead-end line drawing of a cloud - boring http://cloud2.com/
  3. The theatrical portfolio of Senda ED Shallow - whatever http://cloudthree.net
  4. CloudFour.com - Expert Web and Mobile design, development and strategy - blah blah blah http://cloudfour.com/
  5. Five computer clouds are all we need - http://gigaom.com/2007/11/22/five-computer-clouds-are-all-we-need/
  6. Unit 4 Cloud6, why? http://ocw.usu.edu/Forest__Range__and_Wildlife_Sciences/Wildland_Fire_Management_and_Planning/cloud6.jpg/view
  7. Dedicated to 100 years of underachievement by the Hull City Football Club - ’nuff saidhttp://www.oncloudseven.com/
  8. Cloudeight - Home of the Web’s Best and Most Popular Email Stationery - right, gotta have it http://www.cloudeight.net/
  9. Cloud Nine Super Shuttle - Cumulonimbus - http://cloudnineshuttle.com/
  10. Cloud Ten Pictures - Home of the Left Behind series - blech http://cloudtenpictures.com/
  11. Cloud Eleven, a band in L.A. - http://cloudeleven.com/
  12. Cloud Twelve mood music - that’s so last century http://www.cloudtwelve.com/
  13. More film stuff - http://cloudthirteenproductions.com/
  14. A web comic whose author didn’t even have time to color it in - http://cloudfourteen.net/
  15. A USPS series of 15 types of clouds - http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloudspotter-and-stamp-collectors-unite/
  16. A personal 16mm film collection. You must be kidding. - http://cloud16.com/
  17. Last years secret Jet Blue promo code - worhtless http://www.debonairmag.com/cloud_seventeen_-_jet_blue_promo_code.htm
  18. A domain parked for over two years with nothing to show for it - http://cloud18.com/
  19. Some type of film/design thing whose navigation flash cruft is broken - http://cloud19.com/
  20. A scalable database appliance early stage startup (a.k.a. ppt-ware) - http://cloud20.com/
  21. DVD Authoring software - another coaster maker http://cloud21.com/

What a wasteland. The numbers do not lie, my friend.

And then there’s hadoop. But they don’t even have their
curly braces in the right spots so they are destined to fail I guess.