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WSJ Article

Amazon said the primary outage occurred in a data center in northern Virginia when a configuration change to shift traffic was performed incorrectly. The network change was part of a normal scaling activity and was intended to upgrade capacity of the primary network in the data center.

So, was this all caused by a typo?

https://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/3-major-issues-with-the-latest-iphone-tracking-discovery/

In the spirit of academia, due diligence is a must to determine who else has done such research. Mr. Allan, Mr. Warden, and O’Reilly have overlooked and failed to cite an entire area of research that has already been done on this subject and claimed full authorship of it.

David Pogue:

The point, of course, is that as digital technology takes over, we’re losing the sounds of analog technologies. And sometimes that’s a real loss. Cash registers don’t go “ka-ching” anymore, either. But we still SAY “ka-ching,” and there’s your proof — sometimes, our culture simply cries out for a certain audio meme, a certain sonic cue that used to have real meaning.

If you are at all into motion graphics, check out Pluuck. It’s a new community started by friend and neighbor, Brad Munoa, who works as a motion graphics designer for a casino.

A long time customer of mine just started a tech blog here: Philip Fiore’s Technoblog. Check it out.

Here is an interesting thread from the Educause security list:

http://seclists.org/educause/2011/q1/194