This post is an open deliberation on the best usage strategy for the new EBS offered by Amazon Web Services. Last Thursday Amazon launched a much anticipated new service: Elastic Block Store (:EBS). EBS offers persistent storage (something that was missing from EC2) at a price of 10 cents per Gb per month. In addition, [...]
Archive for August, 2008
A strategy for the cloud
Posted in Technology, tagged amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, ebs, ec2, Elastic Block Store, s3 on August 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A surplus of ideas? Part with them!
Posted in Ideas on August 18, 2008 | Comments Off
In his blogpost “A brilliant idea at Harvard“, Dave Winer says (bold is mine): Before I started blogging, I held many if not most of my good ideas in reserve because I thought some day I might do them as products. But as you get older, you realize that most of the things you think [...]
A Nigerian scam (=spam) classic.
Posted in Technology, tagged antispam, google, spam on August 7, 2008 | Comments Off
I don’t remember how many years back was it when I first saw the original nigerian scam mail. You know, the type of ‘I have so many million dollars and I want to get them out of the country etc’. If there was a spam hit parade this would be Nr 1 for years. It [...]
