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Someone is paying attention to my location — and the fact...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:03:38 -0400

Someone is paying attention to my location — and the fact that it’s changed…

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:00:47 -0400

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"What happens if a datacenter fails (as an example, recovering from a failed datacenter that was..."

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:03:10 -0400

“What happens if a datacenter fails (as an example, recovering from a failed datacenter that was hosting a petabyte of data over a 10 Gb/sec link will take more than a year). How long can I tolerate running with less redundancy? On the SLA side, even if I don’t have I have a hard core SLA, I do have contract with my datacenter that forces them to give me notice if they plan to evict me. The investment needed is large, the operational cost is a nightmare. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to let someone else do that for me.
No one said they analyzed the risks that way. Looking Jeff in the eyes is not an analysis. I am sure Jeff has trustworthy eyes, but he could die tomorrow and probably not of an eye disease.”

- Amazon EC2 and S3 disaster planning - O’Reilly Radar

"So you forget about the hardware’s instruction set and invest time, energy and money in learning..."

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:46:56 -0400

“So you forget about the hardware’s instruction set and invest time, energy and money in learning this other guy’s instructions that he calls an “operating system.” Things are going OK except that all your friends are driving faster cars and even faster women and seem flush with the green. You figure out they’re having the bling life because all their applications are on this whole other operating system.”

- Virtual Turntable » last.fm: The API

Dissecting today’s Internet traffic spikes - Esoteric...

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:08:07 -0400

Dissecting today’s Internet traffic spikes - Esoteric Curio

fold me up by Snuggle Upsfold-me-up-by-snuggle-ups.mp3 Here’s the classic...

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:26:42 -0400

fold me up by Snuggle Ups
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Here’s the classic Snugz if you didn’t already know which one to listen to first. These guys kinda started the drum-machine-and-singers genre in Portland. Their musical progeny are many and varied.

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In the Morning by Junior Boysin-the-morning-by-junior-boys.mp3 Sounds like if LCD...

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:26:25 -0400

In the Morning by Junior Boys
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Sounds like if LCD Soundsystem was the #Snuggle-Ups

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Hush! by Golden Gate Jubilee Quartethush-by-golden-gate-jubilee-quartet.mp3 ...

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:58:40 -0400

Hush! by Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
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Relaxing if it doesn’t scare you.

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Boute by Auboute-by-au.mp3 This band makes me proud to be from Portland. (via...

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:35:24 -0400

Boute by Au
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This band makes me proud to be from Portland.

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"An upcoming wave of new workers in our society will never work for an established company if they..."

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:23:43 -0400

“An upcoming wave of new workers in our society will never work for an established company if they can help it. To them, having a traditional job is one of the biggest career failures they can imagine.”

- TaxingTennessee: Did we miss the entrepreneurial revolution? NO