It’s been a long journey from ZXV to Cloud Made, but I’m very pleased to pass on the news here that what was my suicidal idea of quitting my job to start a company with Tom and Ben, which became a consulting firm, which ended up partnering with Nick, which became Cloud Made has received series A venture capital. €2.4 million from Sunstone Capital. More here.
There won’t be a summer Arctic ice cap within 6 years. Yes, really.
Yes, it’s ad-supported wifi hotspots. I used one on the Thames somewhere to grab email.
So I’m sitting here waiting for my powerbook and macbook to boot, getting ready for the great adventure of pushing all my fragile data in to S3 via jungledisk. On a Saturday night. Well, girlfriend is at the other end of the country and I just went out with Nick and the party just ain’t.
Haven’t posted in a while, so let me tell you about the 6:15 from LGW to AMS. Don’t. Just don’t. It’s too early. It’s my single serving friend. It is cheap of course, and EZY do throw the plane about a bit more than just about anyone else you can fly with. I’ve taken 18 flights this year so far. And I’m still not on any frequent flyer programs.
I’ve often said amazon do dumb things… Just got this email:
As someone who has expressed interest in books by Douglas Adams, you might
like to know that “Health Monitoring of Structural Materials and
Components: Methods with Applications” will be released on 3 June 2007. You
can pre-order your copy for just £82.25 by following the link below.
Health Monitoring of Structural Materials and Components: Methods with
Applications
Douglas Adams
To the tune of SALT ‘N’ PEPA “Let’s Talk About Sex”
(Punch it, Hurb
Yo, I don’t think we should talk about this
Come on, why not?
People might misunderstand what we’re tryin’ to say, you know?
No, but that’s a part of life)
Come on
[CHORUS]
Let’s talk about REST, baby
Let’s talk about you and me
Let’s talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let’s talk about REST
Let’s talk about REST
Let’s talk about REST
Let’s talk about REST
Let’s talk about REST for now to the people at home or in the crowd
It keeps coming up anyhow
Don’t decoy, Void, or make Void the topic
Cuz that ain’t gonna stop it
Now we talk about REST on the podcast and GVideo shows
Many will know anything goes
Let’s tell it how it is, and how it could be
How it was, and of course, how it should be
Those who think it’s dirty have a choice
Pick up the SOAP, press pause, or turn the ipod off
Will that stop us, Pep? I doubt it
All right then, come on, GET
[CHORUS]
Hot to trot, make any man’s eyes pop
She use what she got to get whatever she don’t got
Fellas drool like fools, but then again they’re only human
The chick was a hit because http body was GETin’
GET, PUTs, RUBYs, crazy diamonds
Nothin’ she ever wore was ever common
Her REpresentation of State, 200 OK
GETers, PUTers, no one was too great for her to get with
Or DELETE with, even the POST she says was next on her list
And believe me, you, it’s as good as True
There ain’t a client alive that she couldn’t GET next to
SOAP had it all in the bag so she should have been glad
But she was mad and sad and feelin’ bad
Thinkin’ about the things that she never had
No state, just methods, followed next with a check and a note
That last type was dope
Let’s talk about REST, baby (sing it)
Let’s talk about you and me (sing it, sing it)
Let’s talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let’s talk about REST (DELETE)
Let’s talk about REST (PUT)
Let’s talk about REST (GET)
Let’s talk about REST
Hackers, all the coders, louder now, help me out
Come on, all the coders - let’s talk about REST, all right
[repeat]
(Yo, Pep, I don’t think they’re gonna play this on Channel 9
And why not? Everybody has REST
I mean, everybody should be makin’ REST
Come on, how many guys you know make REST?)
[CHORUS]
active merchant rails plugin goes FUBAR unless you install it right on Edgy.. putting this here so google or I will find it later.
sudo gem install money
and then from your rails app scripts directory run
ruby plugin install
svn://home.leetsoft.com/active_merchant/trunk/active_merchant/
I’ve been asked a few times how I find obscure posts about various things. There’s a neat trick. Go to google blog search and search for something you’d like to keep an ear out for. Then in your RSS reader subscribe to the RSS feed. Now any obscure little blog which mentions what you’re after will notify you. Cool, huh?