To anticipate and prevent
So not too long ago, we were at $4 a gallon for gasoline and the price was climbing every week. It seemed like the sky was the limit. It was stupid as everyone knew oil was wildly over priced, but still it rose. Gas was on the way to the very “real” possibility of $5…
I’ve been an avid XM Radio fan for many years, since I heard of the concept of satellite radio. This isn’t just because I’m a tech geek, but because at the time I was living in Lake Tahoe and radio up there sucks… a lot. There aren’t many local stations to Tahoe, stations from Reno…
As of late, I’ve been spending a good amount of time reading. Partially, this is because I’ve found some good books to read, partially, because I’ve got my Kindle back. It got broken, and Amazon was kind enough to replace it for free. Anyways, back to the reading. I started on a series of books…
I’ve recently begun tinkering with Amazon Web Services (specifically their EC2 service) and RightScale. The major difference between these “Cloud” computing platforms and others is that the “instance” (i.e A running virtual machine) is temporary. Once it is shut down, all the data is gone. Additionally, the RightScale (and fairly common) way about going things…
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I figured it was about time that I try plugging my blog into Twitterfeed. Basically, it will take the RSS feed of the blog posts, and post them to my Twitter account. I had done this previously with my “Snowulf” account, but I was posting everything by hand. So… we’ll see how things go. I…