April 2008

What’s this latest trend of having the word “bag” printed on the side of bags? I saw someone walking around yesterday with a little brown bag that had “little brown bag” printed on it. Is that in case we’re not actually sure if it really is a little brown bag or not?

I’ve actually got a “Big Green Bag” from Tesco, which is big, a bag and, ironically, mostly blue. (By the way, if you’ve got a motorbike with luggage on it, the Tesco Big Green Blueish Bag is great as an inner pannier).

You don’t see cars driving around with the word “car” stamped on them, or people with “human” tattooed on their foreheads, so why do we need the word “bag” on bags?

Rant over.

I was doing some aimless browsing the other day and came across my own very first web site. I had no idea it was still in existence! Take a look and you’ll understand where the name of this blog and my Internet nickname comes from:

For some reason, the banner image isn’t centred in Firefox on the Mac, but it seems to look okay (well, for a 1996 web site!) on Windows.

Even the Guestbook is still working and still getting spammed and my software is still there and available for download.

I can’t believe it was 12 years ago!

Wordpress 2.5.1 has been released. As well as including a number of enhancements, it also includes a major security fix. I’d therefore recommend upgrading as soon as possible before the vulnerability is made public.

Following my early post about Wordpress sites being hacked, I’m making sure I now keep an eye on all updates.

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while. I’ve been curious what would happen if I created a blog where anyone could write content for it, on any (legal) subject. It takes guest posts to the extreme in that the entire blog will be comprised of guest posts.

So, I’ve created It’s Your Blog. Head over there now to find out what it’s all about and be the first to post an article. If it gets big, you could be famous (well, maybe semi-famous) for being the first

Spread the word, Digg it, Stumble it, Mixx it, do whatever you want with it, but tell EVERYONE!

Impressively low as the data transfer cost already was for Amazon’s S3/EC2 service, they’ve announced that they’re lowering it even further.

I received an email today announcing new pricing structures:

Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008)
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.180 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.160 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB

New data transfer price (effective May 1, 2008)
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB

I use S3 for storing the images on my FlightSimX blog. It saves a good chunk of bandwidth, is extremely fast and the cost is stupidly low. I’d recommend it to anyone.