Text message business cards

A quite interesting idea: you can send your contact details to someone via text without having to fiddle with beams and bluetooth. Telling them to text “tomraggett” to a short code (50500) is a neat solution.

EC2 for poets

Worth a go to see how this cloud computing works. At $0.125/hour that’s $90/month for a full-on server in Amazon’s cloud. Not bad value, methinks, although much more than my VPS which is $200/year.

Good science

What a cool experiment to be able to do. Fly a balloon 30,000m into the atmosphere and down again.

Spam checker

Despite the relatively hard sell for their product, the ability to see what Spam Assassin will do to your email before you send it off to 30 people is very useful. I guess they might harvest your email address; only time will tell.