Try a Story Idea Prompt
So if you are stuck for ideas, here are some prompts:
* What was your favorite childhood pet?
* Where was your most memorable vacation?
* What topic most inspired you in grade school?
* Where is a place in the world you'd like to visit?
* What is the most adventurous thing you have done?
* Who was an influential authority in your subject discipline?
* Or just describe a collection of things such as
o Five attributes of a great writer
o The top technology gadgets of the future
o Most important discoveries in your field
o Favorite cars, vegetables, flowers, tools
o Collection of things that don't belong
Why is it I have such a hard time writing down stories?
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
October 7, 2009
There are many opinions in the air about the impact that virtualization has on performance, so I thought a short blog would be good to explain (as best I can) virtual machine performance characteristics with pointers to relevant benchmarks and technical papers.
My background is that I was an early Product Manager working on VMware ESX Server (from version 1.5) and among other things ran product management for VMware for a few years. As a product management guy, I kept track of the output of the engineering performance group, and as a result had a reasonable high level (although never code level) understanding of the whys and wherefores of virtualization performance. Although I’m not as fresh on virtualization as I once was, I’ll try to do my best here. I also want to thank Steve Herrod at VMware, and Simon Crosby at Citrix for providing a technical sanity check on the blog contents, although I retain responsibility for any mistakes and oversights.
Firstly, define all the necessary information for a given module ID in _modules variable, e.g.,
...
m301:{l:"m301.html", t:"Module Definition"},
m302:{l:"m302.html", t:"Layout Definition"},
m303:{l:"m303.html", t:"Column Width Definition", c:"green"},
...
Wherein: