The Cult of Gary

Good news from the Roger’s website:
Data Usage - Your iPhone will be enabled for data usage. If you subscribe to a plan with no data included, data charges at a pay-per-use rate of 5¢/KB for data sent and/or received over the Rogers network will apply, unless you subscribe to a data plan, which we [...]

Canadian iPhone packages are now up on the Rogers website. I was already thinking of not getting an iPhone. I really don’t want a contract, especially a 3 year contract on an expensive phone.
In an unrelated story, I signed a 2 year contract when I left my previous gig, which I dumped my super sweet [...]

There’s a neat Open Source project that was announced today at Velocity (actually, it may have been announced at YAPC::NA already). It’s called Jiffy.
Jiffy is made up from a bunch of components:

A javascript library that allows you to start and stop timers (they call them marks and measures)
An Apache config to record the measures in [...]

This morning, Hyperic’s CEO,  Javier Soltero, did a presentation on their new website called http://cloudstatus.com. They do performance and availability monitoring of Amazon Web Services. It’s a little more in-depth than the existing AWS Status page. The site actually tracks metrics instead of outages, so you can see the performance of the different services [...]

I’m going to be at the Velocity Conference on Monday! I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. There’s a few people I’m looking forward to meeting. The sessions look valuable to the work I’m doing right now.
Jeff Barr is speaking in a cloud computing panel. Don MacAskill is on another panel [...]

I used to rename my EC2 instances. That is, I would manually set the HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network. I usually didn’t have that many running, maybe two or three. Not everything was automated, so it was definitely helpful to see my hostname in the bash prompt instead of Amazon’s. Amazon’s hostname is based on the [...]