Author: Mark Draughn
Wa-Shing-Ton
Here’s some weird bit of pop culture that I just don’t get. It’s stupid, it’s poorly drawn, and it makes no sense. Video: George Washington (Probably not safe for work) Can’t. Get. It. Out. Of. My. Head. Read more
A Sleepy Day
Dozer Ripley Buffy Read more
Bummer
Pluto is not a planet. Despite earlier indications that the International Astronomical Union might adopt a broad definition of a planet that includes Pluto and additional objects in the list of planets, they’ve decided that Pluto isn’t a planet after all, and neither are the other three objects they had been considering: Charon, Ceres, and… Read more
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Building on top of their S3 service, Amazon Web Services has announced the beta phase of a new service: The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Simply put, EC2 provides web-accessible virtual servers that you can provision as a service in just a few minutes. Let’s say you have an application that requires a database… Read more
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Everybody says Google is going to build a web-based operating system, but Amazon seems to be doing it too, with their Amazon Web Services line of products. For example, there’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which implements a very simple store-a-file/get-a-file service. Amazon says it’s fast and designed for 99.99% availability, with data centers… Read more