Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Radiohead & Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing

Hello all,

Wondered if anyone had ever put those two things in this title together in the same post? another tailcast first....

Radiohead
Great night last night watching the stars and listening to my Radiohead playlist with Olli. Reminded me why I love their music so much. They aren't scared to take risks to evolve!

Pete's Radiohead favourites:
Best song (emotionally): Fake Plastic Trees (it still hurts listening to this all these years later)
Best song (technically): There There
Best soundscape: Kid A from Kid A?
Best Album: Kid A or In Rainbows

Finished off with People just ain't no good by Nice Cave and the Bad Seeds. Does life get any better?

Amazon Elastic Fantastic
Reading through Amazon's AWS (Developer Services) reminds me why I skipped advanced Physics. Even Catalin is struggling to work out what the F it all means (unusual!). Anyway, we are choosing Amazon to try and ensure we can scale our computing and storage capacity in case anyone out there likes our new site and feels like teeling digg, mashable, slashdot or any of those web 2.0 portals about it. ;)

If anyone is interested then Cat may start to blog about it in the new developer section we will have on tailcast.com (ask nicely and be sure to attach some very hard metal/dance fusion music to the email).

Better go....only 9 days to go. Lord have mercy on our souls.

Hasta pronto