This early morning I’ll start making a betting pool, if there will be a Velocity presentation that won’t mention ‘clouds’. While most of people enjoy the idea of clouds, thats actually where snow, hail, thunderstorms, and acid rain comes from. This industry needs better metaphors.
Update: Though I failed to mention a word cloud on my talk (I guess I was entirely alone in whole conference in that regard), it still made it to Slashdot.
Also, we already replaced ‘Wikimedia Grid’ with ‘Wikimedia Cloud’ on Ganglia.
domas mituzas 
Also hurricanes and tornadoes.
Today’s clouds a fantasy land for giants with beanstalks, and bears with little shapes on their bellies.
No doubt the technology will improve but I don’t think it’s there yet.
Come on, clouds are good. They are where the water comes from in most of the world. The source of life.
“long tail” trumped “cloud” in the CDN talk
I’m using the word cloud ironically in my talk. There is no cloud. Just servers.