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Month: April 2008

Vote Ken?

Vote Ken

I thought there was something strange about these stencils I saw this morning.

Rumour has it they are part of a campaign against Banksy’s backing of Ken. Subtle. Most people will simply think Ken has gone all street and down with the kids.

[Edit: cycled past this morning and they’ve now been boarded over]

Muxxing it up

Back in the day, my friends and I used to share mix-tapes. Many of which I still have – kept in an old school trunk – unable to listen to them due to a backwards compatibility error (I don’t have a working tape player), this trunk holds many musical memories. But, I digress, the point being sharing music was a great thing to do. And now we can again, with muxtape.com. Today I’ve been listening to a selection of tracks put together by a friend who has just returned from Kinshasa and what a joy it has been to listen to music like this again. I’d previously browsed through a few other people’s Muxtapes but I didn’t know them – there’s something very nice about knowing who has put it together, so thank you Fred! Any more Muxtape suggestions?

Google App Engine

Google has just released “Google App Engine” – which will let you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. It sounds similar to Amazon’s offerings (S3, EC2 and SimpleDB) and the ill-fated Zimki:

  • Dynamic webserving
  • Persistent storage
  • Automatic scaling and load balancing
  • APIs for authenticating users and sending email
  • Fully featured local development environment

Python is the only language supported at the moment but they say more languages will be supported in the future. With the weight of Google behind it, this service looks set to provide an excellent all-in-one route to rapid web-app development. So long as you are happy using Python and all of Google’s Web services.