Missing Penny
Posterous is excellent…
I purchased SimplyTweet tonight from the App Store. This will give me the much sought after Push Notifications for Tweets, but in addition it has support for Posterous. While I haven’t used it much yet, it has tremendous potential. On the surface it looks like Tumblr, but it is so much more. In addition to providing the same blog like functional of Tumblr and the great support for numerous media file types, it integrates with nearly everything. When I post a movie from my iPhone to Posterous, it in turn can post that to Vimeo, YouTube, etc. Same goes for pics, and articles. In fact I am writing this on posterous and when I save it will instantly be Tweeted.
Came right down to the November 21st low. Well close enough. November 21st was 739, we hit 741 yesterday. Close enough by anyone’s count. And sure enough a nice bounce off that line. Closing up about 3.4%. Not too bad and pretty easy to predict. Was this just a bounce, or maybe a double bottom forming? Only time will tell. Personally I am not putting too much hope in the market.
Hourly Backups
Clients are amazed that I can offer hourly offsite backups of their database. Well lets look at the math. Most my clients have small sites, and all told the database compressed is about 1/2mb. This is actually quite big when you consider how well text compresses.
So I have a cron job that every hour dumps the database and uploads it to S3. Thats 12MB / day or ~360MB / Month. Amazon charges $0.15/GB of transfer and the same for Storage. I am at 1/3rd of a GB. So for the transfer and storage I am getting hit with $0.10.
Thats right, $0.10 to offer my clients hourly offsite backups of their databases. I have consider increasing my costs to $0.40 and doing it every 15 min, but I just don’t think its worth the extra overhead. :)
iPhone App I need…
Quite simple, I love Google Hosted Apps. What I don’t like is the horribly sync software that exists out there, and the fact that I need to use this sync software to get my contacts and calendar onto my iPhone. Now that the SDK is out I think this can be fixed. Since Apple didn’t open up the existing apps to be expanded, I just want a simple app that does this manually. I click on the app and it connects to Google and syncs calendar and contacts, right on the phone. Nothing crazy. Don’t worry about the fact that its manual, I can push it once a day or such. It would be a million times better then my current setup.
Easter…What a scam
Easter drives me nuts, not because its super religious, but because most people that hold it in such high regard know so little about it. This year was especially fun because of how early it fell. Oh sure most people recognized that, probably because their news channel of choice told them. But what most people didn’t realize was the “why”. Why did Easter fall so early. Ah thats when the topic of Equinox and Full Moons come up. A helpful tip: Christians don’t like it when you point out the fact that their holiday is based on such pagan ideals. Or that for many years Easter was simply the first Sunday of passover. This year I learned from a friend that the word for Easter and Passover in Russian is the exact same word. Anyways for those not aware, and there are a ton of you out there. Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Equinox(First Day of Spring). So using this year as an example. Equinox was Friday the 21st. The Full Moon happened to be on the exact same day, which means that the Sunday the 23rd was Easter. And yes, Easter can occur on the 22nd a day earlier.
Honestly people, if your going to tell me that Easter is the most important holiday of your religion, at least understand how its calculated.
Amex Commercial
So this guy is wanting to buy a ring for his fiance… but his card is maxed out. Yes, lets call Amex and fix that, instead of I don’t know, maybe not buying the ring. If this commercial doesn’t speak to the debt problem we have in this country, then nothing does.
Parental Controls on the iPhone
I love seeing new features on my favorite toys, but this newest one just kills me. It is as though there is no logic to it. I am speaking of course of the Parental Controls that the iPhone 2.0 firmware will have.
Lets think about this one for a second. If you are spoiled enough to have mommy and daddy buy you a $400 phone, then do you really think those same parents are going to enable parental controls?
I just don’t see the reasoning. I suppose maybe marketing. After all this is the first phone that I know of, other then the ones specifically built for kids, that has such controls. Maybe Apple is banking on parents spending a little more, to actually get this feature.
Although there is a level of irony. The first phone suitable for watching porn, and little Johnny might not be allowed to. :)
