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In a move which is by the far the most credible threat to Apple’s dominance of the online music scene, Amazon will start rolling out it’s online music store to countries outside of the USA over the course of 2008. From the press release: Amazon to Begin International Rollout of Amazon MP3 in 2008 SEATTLE–(BUSINESS […]

While the NZ dollar has been so strong over the last few weeks, it was a great opportunity to do some shopping online on Amazon. Here are the books I’ve bought recently: Geek books: Active Directory, 3rd Edition by by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair Lowe-NorrisThis is the Active Directory bible as far as I’m […]

I know that it’s not supposed to be good for the economy, but it’s definitely good for those of us that like shopping online at American sites like Amazon. The Kiwi dollar hit the US80c mark after hovering just beneath that for the last few weeks. So to celebrate, I bought a bunch of books from Amazon, and ordered […]

[tags]amazon,s3,aws,storage,simple,startup[/tags] Artur Bergman, over at O’Reilly Radar, has started an interesting discussion about Amazon’s S3 service and how start-ups/companies are relying on the service without having any guarantees to its availability or uptime. So, if your company is based on AWS: What does your disaster recovery plan look like? How do you react if Amazon […]

On the topic of books… The Windows Server Division Weblog has details on the newly released about to be released book called Introducing Windows Server 2008 Here’s the list of chapters: Introduction Usage Scenarios Windows Server Virtualization Managing Windows Server 2008 Managing Server Roles Windows Server Core Active Directory Enhancements Terminal Services Enhancements Clustering Enhancements […]

The layout of this site goes against all of the basic principles of web design, but it’s just wonderful! I read through the whole site! (Seth Godin would love it!) No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July