My Slice of the Globe

• I’m up way too early today … and twittering…. #

Every couple of months Windows XP decides that it does not want to remember passwords anymore in IE (which is the same mechanism some 3rd party apps like gmail notifier use to remember passwords). So I’m writing this more as a reminder to myself as well as a help to anyone who may stumble on this in a search. In order to get that feature working again you have to edit the registry, and in specific you need to get to the subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

And set the DWORD for:
DisablePasswordCaching

to:
0

You set it to 1 if you need password caching disabled for some reason.

Enjoy!

• We’re back from San Diego (Johanna had a week long meeting). We took Lucas to the zoo and he had a blast. #
• @jxsalom The recent linksys WRT54G (V8) I got works like a charm and pretty easy to get anywhere even supports wpa2… #

Dancing with the Stars, eat your heart out:

• Getting ready to head to the airport, if all goes well I’ll be home before midnight. #
• Unplugging and checking out … #
• Boarding pretty soon. Last bit of unfinished business is cleared up. Home, sweet home, here I come. #

The sad but true blog commentary:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/10/the-decline-and-fall-of-western-civilization-part-iii-the-twitter-years/

Direct link to original:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004480.html

Maybe I should have just twittered about this…

• Ok, off to the lab to work. #

• Apparently folks with facial hair make Lucas cry, let’s just say he is going to have a very "serious" looking passport photo. #
• I have decided that I have heard a reggae version of Culture Club’s "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" one too many times in Barbados. #
• Apparently Lucas took Johanna’s cell phone today, openned it up and said "Hello, Daddy" and got really annoyed when I did not respond. #
• Lucas has made his first cameo in a youtube video. 15 months old and already looking for a world audience. #

Well last night Google announced “Google App Engine”, it’s essentially Google’s answer to Amazon’s web services. Pricing hasn’t been announced at this time, or at least that I could find. If you are interested in testing it out you can sign up for the waiting list here.

Right now the only API language supported is Python, but the platform is supposed to be language agnostic and should be supporting other languages in the near future. TechCrunch has put together a quick app and has details on working with the API up on their site right now and you can find that here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/techcrunch-labs-our-experience-building-and-launching-app-on-google-app-engine/

The SDK and docs are all available here:
http://code.google.com/appengine/

I am on the waiting list. Should be interesting to see how these two services stack up against each other.

I am also wondering since several startups are using Amazon Web services for their applications, and theoretically others will also soon be using Google AppEngine, I wonder how long before they just start running optical fiber between their respective datacenters and house a large portion of the “internet” between them. I also wonder if an AppEngine or AWS version of Wordpress, or the like, is in the cards in the not-so-distant future.

• I’ve just been rick rolled by Jason Calacanis. #
• Uploading new pics to the online album. #

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• Just got back from a walk along the St. Lawrence gap. #
• Living la vida loca while working on expense reports … getting reimbursed is oh, so cool. #

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I’m in the Caribbean again for work and apparently there are only so many days that you listen to resort cover bands, and 14 is way past my limit. So I was very happy to find this post on Wil Wheaton’s site for a very cool LA HD radio station which is also online:

Enjoy!

I’ve actually decided that there are big holes in my iPod selections that need to be filled after listening.