AWS is down: Why the sky is falling http://pulsene.ws/1nJkH

homedesigning:

Dream Home : ‘O’ House by Erginoglu & Calislar

Great use of vertical space.  Vertical panels on the second floor appear to spin to create a wall.

BTW, @cloudsupport was great - they took care of the kernel update and were quick. Not a production server, but they treated it like one.

Upgraded my jaunty vms to karmic, but apparently Rackspace Cloud needs a custom kernel (or the instance won’t boot).

An oldie-but-goodie post from entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki directly addresses the kind of problems the military has with complex PowerPoint decks—boring read-throughs stuffed with too much on-screen text. His parameters for preventing audience paralysis is dubbed the 10/20/30 rule.

Xobni and Dropbox, two highly successful VC-backed ventures, had an impressive growth in their users within a fairly short period of time (2 million users within 2 years).  Adam Smith of Xobni has a presentation discussing some many of the lessons learned from the experience of these two startups.

RT @adamsingy Great article on why IE6 just won’t die. http://j.mp/bUM0ze

First time doing Habitat for Humanity yesterday. Had a great time, though I’m sore today! I did some framing and put up sheetrock

Not sure why, but my Twitter updates stopped being imported to my Tumblr site.  Hopefully they will again now.

Blech. I seem to be coming down with something.

RT @invotrak Invotrak for the iPhone version 2.0 released to Apple for approval! See the details at http://bit.ly/4F8edd/

Sorry to see Lowell go. It’ll be cool to watch him at 1st in Texas though. http://bit.ly/4XcKnZ #redsox

Chrome for the Mac is nice but I don’t like using something that’s an afterthought and crippled (no extensions).

Trying out Chrome for the Mac. It’ll take a lot for me to switch from Safari though.

OH: The hardest kind of person to retrain (ie switch courses) is the Ph.D.