This has to be the best iPad case on the market. Best part about it? Two good friends, Pat Buckley and Craig Dalton are some of geniuses behind. 100% made in San Francisco. Great job guys, I’m glad your ideas are paying off!

Woo! We shipped an implementation of libcloud, check it out over on libcloud.org. It is a pure python library for working with a variety of cloud server providers. It is still a work in progress, but would love to get others involved!

Last Friday, we presented at the Under the Radar conference. Things went really well, and Cloudkick ended up taking best in show (people’s choice)! Techcrunch did a nice article on our progress. Exciting times! Here is a link to the presentation if you are interested.

Today has been an amazing week — and it is only half over! On Monday, we launched our product Cloudkick. Cloudkick is a system to manage cloud servers, like those provided by Amazon EC2 or Slicehost. We have been building this over the past three months as part of the y-combinator program. It was very [...]

It was like 70 degrees here today, so I decided to plant a garden. Yep, it’s along the base of the fence line. Eh, it’s the best I can do with what I have. I’ll let you know how it works out. :)

Put together a little hack … thought I would share … it allows you to do automatic failover on EC2, using the AWS “elastic ip” feature. Not perfect, but very cool! Posted over on the AWS forums: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=112816

Tonight I got myself pretty excited about an EC2 hack. Essentially I was able to create arbitrarily sized root filesystems, when the limit was supposed to be 10GB… or so I thought. A little background. Amazon AWS allows you to make custom machine images to boot their “elastic compute” (EC2) nodes. Essentially they are a [...]

The always awesome Paul Querna came up with a cool trick to log cache hits/misses. In your virtual host set the environment variable SetEnv CACHE_MISS 1, then log it using your CustomLog with %{CACHE_MISS}e. It will log as “1″ when it is a miss, or as “-” when it gets hit. How does it work? [...]

Keeping and eye on the police has never been so much fun! Recently, my friend John lent me his USRP, allowing me to play with GNURadio. From wikipedia: The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) is a high-speed USB-based board for making software radios. GNURadio is a free software, software radio. Essentially, the USRP allows you [...]

Check it out! Pat’s book was on the front page of the dining section in the New York Times today! I went down to Borders to get a copy, and while I was there did a little clean up of the “Reference” section… Before: After: