Wedding over, Pictures online

Thu, 2006-08-10 16:29 — Victor

We've finally recieved our pictures from the photographer, over a month after our wedding (that's another blog entry). About a third of the pictures are on Flickr.com, so head on over there to see our gallery. Be sure to add comments and contribute your own photos taking during our celebration in our Wedding Images Group.

Thanks again to everyone for helping us celebrate.

Deutschland wins!

Fri, 2006-06-16 16:22 — Victor

It took 91 minutes, but Germany managed to pull it off in the end, and Stuttgart explodes in celebration. Within moments, thousands of cars all over the city were all honking simultaneously, congratulating each other on a well played victory. It was a Wednesday night, but for Germans it was the night before a Thursday holiday, so everyone must have been up celebrating all night. We heard yelps and woots and honks for hours, especially since we've had to keep all of our windows open to keep the apartment cool. But in the end, we had a blast and felt like we were part of the winning team.

jacksonpollock.org

Fri, 2006-06-02 14:04 — Victor

Looking to kill a few minutes? Like Jackson Pollock?. Just move your mouse around at jacksonpollock.org and create your own. Left click to change color, and the rest is natural.

Esslingen Wine Hike

Sun, 2006-05-21 16:20 — Victor

Rebecca and I had a great time today in Esslingen at the annual Esslingen Weinwandertag, an annual wine hike through the vineyards surrounding the town of Esslingen. We started off in Esslingen and wandered up a path leading to the vineyards and a few hours (and many wine glasses) later we arrived in Mettingen. At the start in Esslingen, we purchased a wineglass with a leather strap that brilliantly holds the glass upright around your neck, and every few hundred meters along the path we filled up with some delicious local wine and German snacks. We ran into some of my co-workers so we made the rest of the trek with them, which made for never empty glasses.

It's a brilliant festival and loads of fun. These kinds of events are what's missing from life in America.

Finally seeing some services based on Amazon's S3

Wed, 2006-05-17 14:06 — Victor

Months ago Amazon announced S3, which promised unlimited, fast, and inexpensive storage of any kind as a web service. For $.15/gig/month storage and $.20/gig/month bandwidth, it instantly gives anyone with some programming knowledge the ability to use an enterprise class storage network with zero up front cost.

Anyway, today I stumbled upon jungledisk and elephantdrive. JungleDisk seems more like a project than a commercial venture, since you download one of their clients and plug in your own s3 account. You pay nothing to jungleddisk (for now) and pay Amazon for only what you use at s3. Elephantdrive is definitely a commercial venture and completely hides their affiliation with s3, but they do extend amazon's SLA to the end user. I signed up at Elephantdrive, but unfortunately for now they only have a Windows client and so I'm forced to wait until their cross platform comes out.

JungleDisk's linux client (I believe written in C# and then mono'd) seems to work in that it allows me to upload and download files using my personal s3 account. There's something wrong with it however, in that it pegs my CPU at 100%. I verified this on two machines and posted on their forums to see if there's a known reason.

Amazon is truly proving themselves a technology company and not just a glorified online bookstore. With bittorrent support, we're bound to see some more really cool stuff in the near future.

Check out this Flickr to S3 backup script.

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