Gary's Shared Google Reader ItemsI’m not a huge twitter user. I like the idea, but none of inner circle friends are using it so I don’t get much milage out of it yet.
Yesterday, I had my first twitter spam follow. My guess is the person behind this has a bot pouring through twitter looking for people in Vancouver.
At my last gig, I dealt [...]
It turns out, I’m not the only Gary Richardson using the internet. I get other people’s email. I seem to get one of these every few weeks or so. I’ve had my current gmail address since invites were going for $1,000+ on Ebay. I didn’t pay for mine; I got lucky and had a friend [...]
I was very happy when I opened my email this morning. Amazon has announced Elastic IPs and Availability Zones. It’s time to update your EC2 tools!
The Elastic IP implementation looks good. There must be some smart engineers working at Amazon. I haven’t played with it yet, but I have some ideas on how to use it.
My first thought [...]
John Willis has a blog post asking how to handle NMS in the cloud.
At my current gig, we have one piece of hardware that isn’t in the cloud — that runs our our wiki and our RCS. I chose to put our Zenoss NMS station in the cloud. It was a toss up between running it [...]
I’m getting tired of my Blackberry. I don’t have data on it right now (it’s way to pricy here). It also keeps putting itself in ‘SOS Mode’ which means I can’t send or receive calls. I can’t get it out of this mode — I need to pull out the battery and wait for it [...]
I got my electronic bill from Shaw Cable today. I noticed that there was an extra page — on the extra page was the following:
Effective April 1, 2008, the monthly rate for your services will be adjusted to $100.94,plus taxes.
Shaw is committed to providing you with the best programming and serviceavailable. To find out more about [...]
I have to distribute development VMware images to the developers. Since we don’t have office space at this point, we’re using cable modems to transfer the images around. This is a bit of a pain for 2GB+ images.
The image I built uses LVM. When I try to use the vmware-toolbox to compress the vmdk, the [...]
