Archive for July, 2008

Singularity web site down back up!

Update: We're back up and running, everyone. Google responded within five minutes to my email. The quotas were reset and they're going to look into why it happened later today. That's pretty awesome support! Thanks, guys! So all in all, we were down for about fifteen minutes. Apologies for the downtime and huge thanks again to [...]

Google releases new Google App Engine SDK (Version 1.1.1)

Paul McDonald, who has been wonderful in working closely with me to make sure that the Singularity web site got up and running on Google App Engine last week, announced on the Google App Engine Blog on Thursday that they had released a new version of the Google App Engine SDK. Version 1.1.1 includes several [...]

I ♥ Geeky Tees

I always get ideas for geeky t-shirts and never do anything about it. So today, while taking a break from working on the Singularity web site, I set up a store on Spreadshirt under the naklab brand that I'm thinking of using for quite a few things. And I actually made a shirt for the [...]

The cloud must be decentralized

Amazon S3 has been down for several hours now and as Jonathan Boutelle (who, by the way is speaking at the Singularity Web Conference) writes, when S3 goes down, the Internet goes down. Along with images on Twitter, SlideShare, SmugMug, and a host of other sites, images on Pistach.io ads are also down. We've also [...]

No nudity please, we’re Google (or why you shouldn’t mix naked domains and www on Google App Engine)

I have to confess, I love naked domains. You might say, I have somewhat of a fetish. Naked domains, of course, are domain names without the www prefix. So, instead of www.singularity08.com, for example, having singularity08.com. One of my pet peeves are sites that don't display correctly without the www prefix. I've found that it's [...]