Welcome to xlogs http://xlo.gs – a free tool to help manage the Amazon Cloud. Over the course of the last year of so, and in reviewing a number of AWS environments as a consultant, I noticed a couple of interesting things. An incredible number of …
Paul Graham just posted this… dropping funding for each YC startup from $150K to $80K. Had I been accepted, I’d be a little bummed – but I don’t have that problem 
But because there isn’t anywhere to comment, I’m putting up a quick blog post a…
Consulting tends to be interesting. Sometimes, you get interesting fun new things to do. Sometimes you get to do the stuff nobody else wants to do. Recently, I suspect it was the latter. One wouldn’t think converting a wiki would be that tough. Re…
Summary: Hmmm… it’s just a blue box… doesn’t look like a card. Surprise! You need to put $20 on the card at checkout. Surprise! The card isn’t in the box… it’s in the flap covering the box and it’s hard to get out. Card feels cheap – I hope …
James Hague had an interesting blog post – “Do you still want to be doing this when you’re 50?” Essentially saying that “Large scale, high stress coding is a young man’s game”. Maybe if you’re a “recovered programmer” like James, though… Last Ma…
I work at night. Late. Lately, all night. More or less… hacking away in the complete peace and quiet. And I periodically check Hacker News – and sometimes, like yesterday morning I submit something. #antisec had gotten ahold of 12 million iphone…
So I’ve just filed another provisional patent; this time for a really cool thingy (technical term) that will let your control cloud bits (more jargon) from your mobile device… A provisional patent is cool. It lets you file your invention with th…
Notice – this post will save you a massive amount of headbanging if you ever need to do anything similar to this. (Thanks to HN for posting… almost makes it worthwhile) Amazon has a really nice cloud infrastructure. It’s really easy to spin up m…
I’ve been having a nice quiet time, not a lot going on to upset me. Until this morning when I read the latest via HackerNews http://news.ycombinator.com/ about The Innovator’s Patent Agreement: https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreemen…
Techdirt has an article about a little girl potentially losing her ability to improve her speech due to a patent lawsuit. Read it here. Poor little girl, evil patent-enforcing company… the usual nonsense… and I can’t take it any more. Inventin…