test please delete

[AndyGarbs]

Hey AG - what you up to?

listening to Nick Abbot on LBC, watching snooker / footie on tele eating sweeties

multi tasking at its best

[Gonzo]

Hey big nose....

very quiet in here these days

no news really

Oh well, what does one do to pass the time?

Mrs Gonzo has taken to watching terrible television, which means I spend more time reading the stuff on here. (Not the one-a-day thread, but I might "get to know" that one a bit better in due course. )

[DiscoStu]

Bored. Can't sleep. Got a new avatar. It's inspired by my attitude to Wilmslow's posts.

[NickFitz]

What is that you are holding in your hands in your avatar?

Is that not your tripod for proding those in hell(as I like to call clientco)?

trident

[NickFitz]

I see General have become aware of testpleasedelete.com

Better get some content up there, I suppose... I had thought of doing some work on it over the last few days, but the temptation to write absolutely no code whatsoever for a while was too strong to resist

Ho hum

[NickFitz]

Just to satisfy Scourer's desire for techy stuff, I shall mention the rather boring fact that, although testpleasedelete.com, testpleasedelete.org and testpleasedelete.co.uk all point to the same place, testpleasedelete.net currently points to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud virtual machine instance

This is all to do with the long-term plan to store the metadata in Amazon SimpleDB, and carry out complex analyses using clusters of Elastic Compute Cloud virtual machine instances, spawned and disposed of according to the computational demands of the analysis at hand

I haven't really done anything with cluster computing before, so I should learn some fun (and, hopefully, lucrative) stuff

[BrilloPad]

morning all

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[BrilloPad]

trident

errr - you are quite correct! as ever - smart arse!

[BrilloPad]

I really should do some work.....