Sarah's New Book - My Favorite

My beautiful and authorily-blessed wife Sarah has just published her first book on Amazon.com.

It isn't the first book she has published (she published quite a few on lulu.com previously), but we are both excited about this one being published on Amazon because of the huge user base that Amazon has.

This last book; called, "The Price Paid" is a Ghost Story/Romance set in Whales during the Recency Era.  

It is my favorite of her books so far!  She has written some excellent books before, but I like this one the best because it is so hard to figure out the ending.  Anyone who has read a couple of romance books (I don't read a lot of them mind you, actually just Sarah's, but she does read a lot of the clean ones and she has given me the lowdown) knows that the plot is basically the same in all of them.  Two people meet, their is something that comes between them, that something is resolved and then they are united and there is a happy ending.  I love the plot line.  Happy endings are my thing.  But this one has such a perplexing twist that you have a really hard time figuring out the end.  

Highly Recommended.

Check it out here.   The Price Paid by Sarah M. Eden

Stackoverflow.com

I have been following the development of http://stackoverflow.com for a while now.  
It is a joint effort between Joel (of Joel on Software fame) and Jeff Atwood (author of the popular Coding Horror blog).

I had not posted a question until today and I must say that I am pleasantly surprised how helpful it is.

I posted this question and then within minutes I received two excellent and different responses.

I will definitely be using this website more often.

My Book Wishlist

For those of you who are curious, or would like to give me a present, here for your perusal is the list of books I would love to read.

s3 Pricing drops

Just when I thought I had the cheapest and best online storage available, Amazon dropped their pricing on S3. Granted, I won't see much of a price change because I don't store TB of information, but man, I like how this is going.

Python Web Frameworks and When I Use Them

Here is my take on all the myriad python web development frameworks available.

Online Storage AND SYNCING

After creating my own system for syncing my documents to Amazon s3 (using the great s3cmd (python version) and optionally git) I happened upon a nice alternative.
- For me, I don't use it because what I have works great and I get some sick satisfaction from paying people for the services they give me.
- But I get even more satisfaction from not paying a lot.
- My last month bill for Amazon S3 was 20 cents. :-)

Anyway, the nice alternative is dropbox.
- http://www.getdropbox.com
- First 2 GB free
- Automatically!, and quickly, syncs anything you put in the dropbox folder on your computer to all the computers on which you have dropbox installed!
- Made with Python (I snooped under the hood a little to find this out) which is a plus in my book, not because I can change the code (they didn't include the source, and yes I know you can reverse engineer python optcodes, but I don't want to and it is probably against their terms of service), but because this frees them up to develop new features and fix bugs very quickly.
- Highly recommended!!!