There are a couple of cool new technology releases today:
Google Gears is a browser extension providing a set of Javascript APIs for offline web applications.
Review Board is a web based code review application from the folks at VMWare. No CVS support (yet), sadly.
Andrew Bird makes some excellent music. And this rendition of Why, recorded live on March 21, 2007, is particularly great:
I've been sitting on this for a little while, but Ankit Solanki wrote an Emacs Markdown mode, which includes syntax highlighting, a while back. He even used my buffer preview function!
Me: man, I'm going to be such an awesomely ornery old man
Andrew: you're already an awesomely ornery young man
Me: exactly!
Andrew: all you gotta do is get old
I got an email today from Amazon Web Services saying that the S3 (Simple Storage Service) prices will change on June first. Now S3 will be even cheaper:
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB - all data uploaded
$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data downloaded
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data downloaded
$0.13 per GB - data downloaded / month over 50 TB
Data transferred between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 is free of charge
Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
*No charge for delete requests
Storage and bandwidth size includes all file overhead
I really need to stop dragging my heels and start backing up my backup server to S3.
It looks like these prices will lower the overall cost for transferring large files (I'm not sure yet what "large" means in this context). Transferring a lot of small files will increase the overall cost.