Windows Server 2003 on EC2
Thursday, November 30th, 2006Here is a tutorial for getting Windows Server instances running in EC2. Might be a nice stop-gap in the short term. I will be trying out these instructions shortly.
Archive for November, 2006
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Monday, November 27th, 2006Snowstorm! We usually get to have at least one snowball fight per year on campus, but this year we got a demolition derby.
Right at rush hour, the whole area was hit with a massive snow dump. Normally, the technique for snow driving in Seattle is to just avoid people with BMWs or Mustangs. But that’s impossible in Redmond; [...]
Arnoldo Talisman and Shockin’ Nigerian Hip-Hop
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006Dave Winer is lamenting that it’s not too easy to find cheap/free firewood nearby. He makes some great points. Eric Schmidt of Google says it right; we are still in the infancy of this technology.
But it’s getting better every day. For years, I have been trying to locate information on UGO, a Nigerian rapper who [...]
Walk the Line
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006The Levi’s commercial covering ‘Walk the Line’ is presumably a light piece about young love, but it’s got an undercurrent of ’suffocated love‘ that’s undeniable. The phrase, “because you’re mine” has always been jarring to me. I remember one woman I knew many years ago, who explained to me “I want to have a baby, because then [...]
Yahoo! Peanut Butter?
Saturday, November 18th, 2006Everyone is chattering about the Yahoo! Peanut Butter Manifesto. Every BigCo has problems of overlap, lack of accountability, and people who think those problems are worse or better than they really are.
In this case, though, I’m a bit confused by the memo. Everyone knows that Flickr and Delicious are tiny compared to the competing Yahoo! properties. [...]