Amazon SimpleDB

I'm a big fan of Amazon EC2 and S3. To be able to use the amount of computing power you need and the amount of storage you need and only pay for what you use is a good way of computing in my view. However, EC2 wasn't built to run clustered databases like MySQL on, and I've had problems finding any service that will let me pay for the capacity I need (cpu time and disk space) and give me a guaranteed query time. Amazon's SimpleDB seems to be a good step in that direction, and I'm really looking forward to toying with it and hopefully use it for many interesting projects.

Morten

Blog back home

I've moved my blog and photoblog back home. A few of my other sites might follow. I'm hoping to have them better integrated so. At the moment people will come up to me and say 'I saw your home page!' and I'll ask them which one. Not a good place to be. I've been planning an integrated solution for a year without really having had the time for it, but having it back home might actually do some good for those plans.

Silicon Image 3132 and Leopard

ZDNet posts that you should beware of using Silcion Image's 3132 chipset that's used for so many noname eSATA ExpressCards (and the one I have) with Leopard. I have had little success using this with Tiger as it seems incompatible with my enclosure (might as well be the other way around, though)

Interface Builder 3 demo

Having read here and there about how to work with Interface Builder 3 that does not have the "Classes" page like IB2, I've found that the following YouTube video shows it way better in 3 minutes than what I had spent hours reading:

Gorm\'s Cat

Kite surfer

The picture

The picture, promised in the last podcast (yes, it's been too long, but we've got material brewing ) is finally here, found on a CD in a big pile of CDs with images

What\'s up with Airtunes?

Airtunes is/was Apple's way of putting music in other rooms. It came with the Airport Express, but when the Airport Extreme was updated, Airtunes was nowhere to be found. Worse, Airtunes can only be streamed to one target?!? Now that Apple has released yet two new WiFi audio products, the iPod touch and the iPhone, why does they not include Airtunes capabilities? They should be able to both stream music and have music streamed to them! Apple, where is Airtunes heading? I still want the same music in every room of my apartment.

Jeanne a la Mogens

Mogens added some powder to the skin of this gorgeous girl...