Amazon has publicly released their persistent storage service. It runs $.10/Gb, has guaranteed uptime that exceeds standard drive hardware reliability, and allows simple trivial backup to S3.

Here’s a pitch for XMMP (Jabber) versus web services for controlling cloud-style computing problems. It’s funny too, I had a Jabber-powered site in 2000 (or so) that worked really well, but I forgot about it after moving to Wordpress. I hope the approach sticks.

A great business card idea: using a tag cloud on the back side.

I can’t stop thinking, a funny/useful web comic by Scott McCloud. I’m motivated to get back to my online comic, except that I have too many open project HANDLES.