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Reason at Taum Sauk

It would seem that after the jumping up and down last week, our state officials are working together to come up with a proposal to put before Ameren in regards to the Taum Sauk dam failure. Jay Nixon, the Attorney General, sent a letter to Ameren with a list of items his department stated Ameren would have […]

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Media

Timese machine

I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag You got me on the rag, rag Take your insults about the queen And shove them up your royal Timese machine.   Joan Baez may not have liked Time, but the magazine’s move to open past archives for direct, and free, access has certainly made me a friend. First picks: Einstein […]

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Web

A succinct look at web generations

Web 0.0 brink Web 1.0 blink Web 2.0 link Web 3.0 think

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Books Burningbird

Woo hoo

The powers that be at O’Reilly have accepted my book proposal. Next comes the finalizing of the TOC to attach to the book contract and then The Start of Writing. I still don’t want to talk about the book topic–it’s a surprise. I’ll have more on it when I’m closer to finishing. I can say […]

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Internet

Amazon S3 pricing

Amazon just sent a letter detailing price changes for the S3 service. They’re as follows: Current bandwidth price (through May 31, 2007) $0.20 / GB – uploaded $0.20 / GB – downloaded New bandwidth price (effective June 1, 2007) $0.10 per GB – all data uploaded $0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month […]