The buzz around the web today was the outage of Amazon’s S3. It shows what websites are “doing it right”, and who fails. This is a great follow up to my “Reliability On The Grid” post the other day.
Amazon S3 is cloud based computing. Essentially when you send them a file using [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion lately (in particular NYTimes, Data Center Knowledge) regarding both reliability of web applications which users are becoming more and more reliant on, as well as the security of such applications. It’s a pretty interesting topic considering there are so many things that ultimately have an impact on these [...]
As usual, my list of April Fools that I saw today:
Google’s Project Virgle the first permanent human colony on Mars.
Google’s Gmail Custom Time lets you choose when to send mail. Never be late again.
Google’s gDay™ with Mate™ lets you search content on the internet before it’s created.
Google Talk to convert conversations to IM speak [...]
10 Wierdest things you can buy on Amazon is definitely weird. Sure to make the delivery guy wonder.
Also quite interesting is How To Hide An Airplane Factory.
[Hat Tip: A Welsh View]
The most bizarre website you will ever encounter. White Glove Tracking needs your help to isolate the white glove in Michael Jackson’s performance of Billy Jean. Every frame. This would have been an ideal project for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
I keep regular backups of everything on this server just in case something happens. Recently I switched to a more automated and secure (PGP encrypted) solution for this blog due to it’s fast-paced nature. Just the critical stuff (database, media, templates). I choose PGP (implemented using GPG) since it’s easy, and I [...]
In the wake of this weeks events, I decided to spend several minutes browsing the home pages of the world’s largest companies, just to see how many made an alteration either as a memorial or to raise funds for disaster relief… I easily hit all the big brands here in the US, odds are I [...]
It appears Amazon is giving a geeky (π/2) discount to early adopters who uses their search engine.
So before you make an amazon purchase do the following:
Visit a9 and perform a search
Visit amazon.com (if you like me… use my link so I get affiliate credit)
Robert Accettura, since you’ve been using A9.com recently, virtually everything [...]
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