Archive for June, 2008

What a simple idea – photograph one’s calorific intake. Here’s my first week. Slightly embarrassing. I’ve already taken steps to reduce my alcohol consumption.

I completed Super Mario Galaxy this weekend, not in the purist sense of doing absolutely everything, but in the normal sense of having helped Mario to beat Bowser and rescue Princess Peach.

Awesome game. 9½ out of 10.

I have a simple task; migrate a bog-standard LAMP from a co-located physical server (bricks and mortar) to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) architecture (virtual). The physical server provides core business services so the success criteria for the migration are minimising functional distortion and minimising down-time. In other words, a virtually seamless transition.

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