New AWS Web GUI

January 9, 2009

Amazon has just released a new console for their Web Services.  Here’s a copy of the email.  I also have a screen shot below.  Click on it to see the full screen version.
Wonder what this means for RightScale, which provided a great front end for AWS. They just got $13 million in funding last [...]

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Do you have a Star Wars name?

December 21, 2008

Saw this post Musings: How to determine your “Star Wars” name
For your new first name:
1. Take the first 3 letters of your 1st name and add
2. the first 2 letters of your last name
For your new last name:
3. Then take the first 2 letters of your Mom’s maiden name and add
4. the first 3 letters [...]

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Chris Brogan Talking About Social Media Strategy

December 1, 2008

Good presentation by Chris Brogan about social media strategy.

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Obama Up Nine, Market Down Six

October 22, 2008

Obama and Biden are doing a great job of scaring the Hell out of the market. Obama’s. “spread the wealth” comment was about as dumb as I’ve seen, with perhaps the exception of Biden’s comments that if Obama is elected America will be tested.
No wonder thing market is tanking even further despite the credit [...]

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What I don’t like about Facebook

October 22, 2008

This says it all

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Wall Street Explained

October 15, 2008

Got this from a friend via email:
Once upon a time, in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villager’s that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as [...]

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Will They Bailout the Oil Companies too?

October 13, 2008

The price of oil has dropped a lot since the financial markets tanked.  I’m sure there’s a lobbiest arguing for a nice oil company bailout.  Woulnd’t be surprised to see one either.

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Do you think we should “Spread the Wealth”?

October 13, 2008

Working American’s are being asked to spread the wealth. Somehow, giving the 40% of people who don’t pay taxes a “tax cut” by sending them a check is no longer welfare.  Just ask Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber.

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Fixing Health Care

October 8, 2008

I thought more about health care reform after the debate last night.  It is troubling to see Obama so against meaningful change when it comes to health care.  We’ve already have big government health care programs and they are no more efficient than the rest of the system.  You can deliver health care that way [...]

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I Hope I’m Wrong

October 7, 2008

In the debate tonight, I thought Obama did everything he needed to do.  He finally sounded like a clear cut Democrat.  He sounded center left.  He came across calm, smart and likable, even when he  gave us a line of BS about reducing health care costs by $2,500 per family through “efficiencies”.  He’s either totally [...]

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