Oct 06
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Rightscale is having a webinar next week (Oct 13, 1011) entitled “Optimizing your Cloud Applications for Rightscale“.
If you are at all interested in cloud-performance, this is a webinar that you should probably attend, whether or not you use Rightscale as your application platform, and here’s why.
Aug 29
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When I went out to dinner at the Palace in Santa Barbara with some of the folks from Rightscale (thank you, rightscale, for a wonderful trip!), I was asked about my home-town, Louisville, Kentucky.
I’m afraid that I wasn’t very succinct in my answer, so I’ll try again.
Dec 24
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I just set up new WordPress blogs content manage systems for my kids.
Upon account creation, it sent them the auto-generated passwords.
Something like: R%z”5N&I!jY8]
I received a one-liner response from Kayla: WHY SO HARD?
And here’s how I responded. Hope you’ll get some use out of the information.
Nov 30
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The first-ever Wordcamp is this Saturday, where a bunch of business and technology people from the Louisville, Ky area are getting together to discuss and learn about … WordPress.
Here’s the details in case you are having trouble deciphering the details from the site.
What: WordCamp 2010 – come and interact with WordPress and other experts. Looks like there will be 3 tracks.
When: Saturday, December 4th. Registration begins at 8:00, conference will go on all day with an as-yet-to-be-announced after party.
Where: University of Louisville Shelby Campus at the Delphi Center (Inside the Founder’s Union Building.) Directions. Map.
How Much: $20 per person, plus a small ticketing fee. Proceeds go toward charity. Tickets.
Need more details? Visit the WordPress Conferance in Louisville: Wordcamp 2010 website
Yes, Sybil and I will be there through most of the presentations, but probably a bit late — Lee is having a Boy Scout function in the morning.
Nov 12
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I’ve just upgraded yet another aging server running on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud.
This one has been running for over 2 years.
This is what it looked like just before I took it offline (instance id i-bdee4dd4):
20:39:05 up 778 days, 4:44, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
That’s the last “instance store” machine I had, now everything is running on the Elastic Block Store (EBS).
With EBS, I’ll be rebooting more often (monthly or so) in order to get instantly-available clones, so this will probably be my personal server uptime record.
Sep 26
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European newspapers complained that there were too many American tourists, while Americans were complaining that there were too many immigrants. The older generation everywhere complained that the young were disrespectful, while politicians in Europe and America worried about the disturbing turbulence in []. There were newfangled “aerobics” classes; there was a trend-setting vegetarian society, and calls for sexual freedom (which were rebuffed by traditionalists standing for family values), and much else.
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