Aptly named blog. Its interesting to watch the notion of 'cloud' get debated, monetized, and marketed. It used to be called 'liquid IT' or 'grid' but basically it is/was a way to reduce operational expense.<p>The basic feature of disassociating OS/System/Infrastructure management from application management is a reasonable 'best practice' goal these days, and with applications built on top of a standardized infrastructure (think LAMP or its follow-ons) the benefits are very real.<p>Of course if you just want to run a dozen machines you're not really talking about 'cloud' now are you?