Amazon AMI list

I can never seem to find this handy list on the amazon site. So here it is:

The Amazon AMI list.

(For Elastic Compute Geeks only.)

a bamboo mouse

Good heavens, it's made of bamboo, in China. For $17. (It's here.)

Review: TheServerSide.com

From the about page: "TheServerSide.com is an online community for enterprise Java architects and developers, providing daily news, tech talk interviews with key industry figures, design patterns, discussion forums, satire, tutorials, and more."

The meat of the site is Enterprise oriented social media, with some (generally pretty good) original content. I particularly like the Tech Talks which are videos of presentations and interviews with JEE luminaries.

I don't hang out there very often anymore, since I'm mostly doing internet development these days, but it's on my radar.

I've been a member since 2004 or so. My username/password are:

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Flock and the "Red Leather Chair" Syndrome

Flock is a startup with red leather chairs. I like their attempt to consolidate social networking data in one place, but I have to say that I would be unhappy as an investor to see the extravagance of their home office.

Kara Swisher: High end blogger

Kara (who appears to be a quite influential and well connected blogger) visits the Christmas parties of the rich and famous in the tech world, with her video camera.