Old news for some, but this Amazon Web Services announcement just popped into my inbox.

Amazon are finally offering a persistent storage service so you no longer lose everything should one of your EC2 instances crash, and no longer need to faff around with ridiculous workarounds to have reliable data storage. This was the main reason why I've been staying away from EC2. With this news, maybe it's about time I considered scrapping my physical servers.

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Register article from a couple of weeks back

Yellow hat day today :P

1. The sun is shining into the office, more serotonin...please. ;)

2. Infest was great, spending time with friends, enjoying the music, and dancing, and thinking back to any moment makes me smile. *bounce*

3. Should I be surprised to have considerably less waistline after that weekend? I suppose 9 hours of dancing had something to do with that.

4. Fortunately my jupiter combat trousers fully adjust to suit. My work trousers don't, but another hole in the belt should do.

5. Bedlam was *fun* with lots of friends through from Edinburgh. Thanks for the little fan Nik, much appreciated.

6. I enjoy driving a lot, and I've dispelled a worry about driving with music. Even more so, some bleep / noise / ebm / industrial music really helps keep me alert when driving late!

7. I have enough work coming in to pay the bills, even the £7k corporation tax due next month. Just need to remind some clients to pay on time.

8. Feel a lot better to be dealing with some problems that have been put off for too long. Facing problems is A Good Thing.