Social Networks

My friend Jermaine was asking what some of my social network accounts were, because lately I have become a whore to the social network world. For the longest time I used handles and didn’t have a thing for social networking, but since I have been able to catch up with so many people and make some really good connections I am enjoying it much more. Also not all of these sites are that important to me in respect to adding friends. Sites like Dopplr that let you enter information about trips and your travels is just cool.

Security Cameras

I was curious the other month what my dog was doing while I was gone, and I wanted to be able to monitor my apartment. I have found a Linksys wireless webcam on Newegg for about $85. I am considering picking up a couple of them and setting up some surveillance. In one hand I think it would be just plain cool and in the other I think it is a bit paranoid.

Kind of a quiet day.

LIFE

Today Google released LIFE magazine photo archive. This is pretty spectacular, but I don’t really have much to go on about, the photos pretty much speak for themselves.

CloudFront

I found out from a friend of mine that Amazon released CloudFront, a new competitor to the CDN market. It is a great thing for the small companies trying to get going because I believe the big CDNs have minimum agreements. The one downside is that you have to pay for S3 traffic too, so in some ways you are doubling costs of the traffic. If you really need multi-continent coverage though its probably one of the best routes, especially if you use Amazon Web Services.

Microsoft

This topic annoys me quite a bit, but once again it came up. Someone on a linux mailing list I belong to sent out an email with some bashing comments about Microsoft. A couple other people followed up with jokes that probably weren’t jokes. One of them happens to use Hotmail, a product I actually do dislike quote a bit. After emailing him and saying that he shouldn’t make comments since he is a Hotmail user he made some comments about me needing to lighten up.
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