Red network here we come!

Got a letter today from Vodafone:



I'm in Howick, so I'm thinking that us Howick exchange Vodafone customers are being migrated from the 29th of September (quite a long way for me - gosh, sending out a letter a month in advance)

Particularly happy about the $20 credit for doing nothing (other than suffer through a few hours - hopefully in the early hours in the morning).


The letter also hints:

You can even look forward to making voice calls over the internet soon too.

... that could mean that VoIP or Naked DSL could be introduced probably by the end of year - I hope.


All I need to do now is wait for that inevitable confirmation email...

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Amazon has finally announced the general availability of persistent storage for EC2! This is long awaited news. Here is a also a writeup from Werner Vogels, the Amazon CTO.

Some background...

Amazon has offered a very nice cloud-com... (more in the full post)

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Well Slingshot had been having problems with  the new caching software,  it broke youtube, it made developers life hard as updates to websites would take hours sometimes to become live.   The problems increased as slingshots users private information on pages like trademe, bebo and nzdating because available to other random users.
As a result Slingshot has turned off this potential money engine.

There has been a lack of information about what users should do to protect themselves for this problem.
Slingshot has cause some user accounts to be violated and Slingshot's doesn't want to talk about it.

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Well, it's been a while Dear Reader.

No reason I can think of - just other stuff to do. Spring is creeping up on us. Our orchard is full of blossom and new leaves on the apples, pears, peaches and almonds. Always a joyous sight.

Sadly, the weather is still wet and windy - although we had three dry days last week! Yay! Managed to get out on the tractor and mow a bit without making too much mess.

Apple finally fixed Mobile Me - I bet they won't try that again in a hurry. Now they have given away 3 months of free service to subscribers as an apple-ology. Hurrah!

I am off up to Hamiltron and Raglan tomorrow to photograph the WRC New Zealand stages. Sadly no press access - the FIA control that and you almost have to be related to Max "BDSM" Mosley to get a press pass! Weather looks reasonable, so light should be good - if the images are worth it I will post them on my website.

TTFN

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