Alexa Thumbnail Service

Published on Dec. 28, 2008

Amazon offers some pretty cool services: S3, EC2, Alexa Site Thumbnail, and others. A while back I wanted to use AST with Django, so ended up writing the Python bindings to the REST API (they didn't previously exist. I even wrote up a quick tutorial. Update: Amazon ... Read more.

Forgive me, for I have sinned

Published on June 25, 2007 under Taiwan

The date is June 25th, 2007, and I've sinned. Let me explain. I've been involved in technology for quite some time, and have been very anti-facebook/myspace/friendster. There has never been an urge to join, I've always thought people spend way too much time updating their profiles instead of actually writing ... Read more.

The Risk in Risk Mitigation

Published on March 15, 2007

Back in the day the barrier to entry for the Internet was quite high. The technology used required a steep learning curve, the equipment extremely expensive, and sometimes even hard to acquire. Fast forward to 2007 and things have certainly changed. If you know any tech people you can likely ... Read more.

Python, AST and SOAP

Published on March 7, 2007

For one of my projects I need to generate thumbnails for a page. And lots and lots and lots of them. Even though I can generate them via a python script and a very light "gtk browser", I would prefer to mitigate the server load. To do this I've decided ... Read more.

AWS in Python (REST)

Published on March 3, 2007

As some of you may know, I have some projects cooked up. I don't expect to make a million bucks (wish me luck!), but a few extra bills in the pocket wouldn't hurt. Plus, I'm highly considering further education, which will set me back a few-thirty grand. That said, one ... Read more.