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Archive for August, 2007

17 Aug

Fog Buzz Wolrd Tour

Joel on Software is coming to Vancouver! I coincidently already have the day off. I was a bit worried he was going to come when I was out of town.
I’m looking forward to seeing Joel speak, and I might actually learn something. I’ve been reading his blog for a bit. I don’t always agree with [...]

15 Aug

CFL Needs An IT Wakeup Call

I’m currently playing around with Google Reader. I like it so far — I can aggregate all the sites I visit into one play. Plus, it’s all online, so I can get it from any computer or my blackberry. I can even view it offline with Google Gears.
I’ve been slowly adding feeds from the various [...]

14 Aug

Vacation So Far

4 days in and I’ve finished off a number of books already. So far,

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by JK Rowling
The Wal-Mart Effect, by Charles Fishman
Up the Organization, by Robert Townsend

And I’m currently work on Smart and Gets Things Done by Joel Spolsky. I’m also going to try and get through The The Long [...]

08 Aug

Amazon SQS

I hadn’t heard of Amazon Simple Queue Service before. I stumbled upon it today. It looks neat. It could possibly be used to keep EC2 nodes in sync, or the basis of some sort of ready many, write few file system. Not many people seem to be using it publicly yet.
I also like the idea [...]

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