June 2008
3 posts
Keeping the eye on the tiger (or cloud)...
I called it.
I saw this coming based on a previous blog post on how all of the cloud based services seem to be reaching critical mass – and shutting off inadvertantly – without much notice. Well, as Stephen King says, everything is eventual.
CloudStatus (courtesy of Hyperic) has made it’s appearance and it is well placed to be the all-in-one free monitoring service of choice. Currently, this...
Answer (test) this? Why is the price of automobile...
Oil per barrel is at an all time high. How is it that the same oil used to make gasoline is sold at auto shop stores and gas stations throughout America (and in other countries) at a consistent price (sometimes at discount), while gas prices rise with the price of oil? I have no answer for this, so I sit puzzled at this strange price mechanism, glaring at it like a jumbled 40-foot Rubric’s...
Re-testing the cloud (or building better...
Once more we see that the Twitter world is all a flutter with an unfortunate downtime, and because of this, some people are making the egress to Friendfeed, Pownce (both my personal favorites), and whatever else is out there. The same downtime has raised its ugly head for Amazon Web Services (once more), which I so revere, despite the ups and downs. I guess a new business service should spring...
