Been getting compliments on my “Bernie 2016” hat around Boston, except for one person in Financial District who spat “Hillary!” at me.

I saw black smoke coming from the Capital, indicating the House couldn’t elect a Speaker. They’ll remain locked in the Capital until they do

Tablets are making more inroads than the press thinks: after all, they have killed off the Kindle. thebookseller.com/news/waterston…

Facebook: we need big data loads to work every time (not just most of the time), which is why we built Presto Raptor.

Facebook: HDFS just isn’t up to producing consistent predictable loads of very large data sets.

Facebook uses Presto to scan trillions of rows and several Petabytes every day.

Having a great evening meeting developers at Boston’s first Presto big data meetup, sponsored by Teradata.

Summary of Microsoft event: forget that post-PC stuff; phones, tablets and notebooks really just want to be PCs.