Displaying posts created in April2008
Vote Ken? 21Apr08
Vote Ken, originally uploaded by markrocky.
I thought there was something strange about these stencils I saw this morning.
Rumour has it they are part of a campaign against Banksy’s backing of Ken. Subtle. Most people will simply think Ken has gone all street and down with the kids.
[Edit: cycled past this morning and they’ve now been boarded over]
Muxxing it up 16Apr08
Back in the day, my friends and I used to share mix-tapes. Many of which I still have - kept in an old school trunk - unable to listen to them due to a backwards compatibility error (I don’t have a working tape player), this trunk holds many musical memories. But, I digress, the point being sharing music was a great thing to do. And now we can again, with muxtape.com. Today I’ve been listening to a selection of tracks put together by a friend who has just returned from Kinshasa and what a joy it has been to listen to music like this again. I’d previously browsed through a few other people’s Muxtapes but I didn’t know them - there’s something very nice about knowing who has put it together, so thank you Fred! Any more Muxtape suggestions?
Google App Engine 08Apr08
Filed under: Technology
Google has just released “Google App Engine” - which will let you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. It sounds similar to Amazon’s offerings (S3, EC2 and SimpleDB) and the ill-fated Zimki:
- Dynamic webserving
- Persistent storage
- Automatic scaling and load balancing
- APIs for authenticating users and sending email
- Fully featured local development environment
Python is the only language supported at the moment but they say more languages will be supported in the future. With the weight of Google behind it, this service looks set to provide an excellent all-in-one route to rapid web-app development. So long as you are happy using Python and all of Google’s Web services.
April Fool’s Day 01Apr08
Filed under: Random
There’s been some good gags circulating online today:
- Gmail CustomTime - never miss a deadline again
- TrustBanners - incredible mind-altering online advertising.
- Google buys Facebook - a bit close to the truth?
- Microsoft finally acquires Yahoo! - even closer?
- Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin launch Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars
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