I finally decided to take the plunge and signed up for a Twitter account. You can follow me at twitter.com/jamiemurai . That’s where all my little random thoughts and links are going to go from now on. I’ll still be posting here as well, but the posts will probably be longer and more thought out. The whole tumblelog idea hasn’t really worked out all that great. Twitter seems like a more natural place for the small stuff.
Slicehost Aquired By Rackspace
Great news for the guys at Slicehost. Jason, Matt, and the rest of the Slicehosters are an amazing team with an equally amazing product. Let’s hope that this acquisition doesn’t hinder their amazingness[sic?].
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As Credit Crisis Spiraled, Alarm Led to Action
A well written summary of some of the events leading up to the current credit crisis.
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Quick Google Tip: Unit Converter
Google has a really good unit converter that essentially only requires you to tell it what to convert in plain English.
For example, I wanted to know how much the cell phone carriers are ripping us off on text messages. Each text message can be a maximum of 140 characters, which is 140 bytes, and each message costs 15 cents. This is what I typed into the Google search bar:
15 cents per 140 bytes to dollars per megabyte
This is what appeared at the very top of the search results:
(15 Canadian cents) per (140 bytes) = 1 123.47429 Canadian dollars per megabyte
So there you have it! We pay $1123.47 per megabyte if the data is a text message.
+1 for Google.
-10 for Telus.
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Bear With Me!
I’m now back on another work term, and so I’ve decided to start blogging again, which I tend to do when I don’t have homework to finish every night. One of the changes I’ve decided to make to the site is to switch to yet another blogging engine called Chyrp. It’s seems pretty lightweight, and more focused on micro-blogging, which is the direction I’d like to head. I’ve come to realize that I don’t have the concentration it takes to write lengthy articles, and that I would prefer to put out smaller bits of information more frequently.
Obviously, if you’ve come here looking for the older posts, you’ve realized that they’re nowhere to be found. This is only temporary, and I’ll get them back up once I figure out how to convert my old Wordpress database int the format used by Chyrp.
So check back in a few days when I’ll hopefully have everything sorted out. I think these renovations will help keep me motivated to post more often.