One Life.

Amazon EC2 – How to load balance?

Costin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:52:06 +0000

So Amazon EC2’s infrastructure seems pretty cool, but I don’t really see a way to create a truly scalable infrastructure since all you’re getting from them are instances of individual machines, not anything at the networking level. If anyone out there has any experience with this, please enlighten me – I need to create some type of scalable architecture using Windows instances. Thanks!

“Dear Sister” parodies - ok, i know i’m always late on these things…

Costin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:45:41 +0000

… but, tonight we were watching SNL and stated to look up the Andy Sandberg Mark Walberg skit, and somehow stumbled about this “Dear Sister” thing based on this OC episode:

and then, i guess there were all these hilarious parodies!

and than i find that there’s other parodies:

And my favorite:For some reason, it wouldn’t allow embedding, but its really worth the click:http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-dNZz63Aeg8

Need a singer!

Costin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:51:45 +0000

So my new band is almost complete, with the exception of a kick ass singer. If you know any really strong singers, send them my way. Man, I need to just use Twitter for this blog.�

This guy wanted to audition for my band…

Costin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:26:25 +0000

Auditions are ON!

Costin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:21:44 +0000

Oh man, I know all my friends are gonna have one comment or another about this, but once again, I’m looking for musicians. Ryan and I have been writing music, and still have the music bug, so why not — we’re putting together another band. Its not the Action Item, a d we might still play some of the old songs, but the goal will be to write new music. So yeah, its fun and exciting for us, and hopefully we’ll find some good people to make some great music with.

New Music by Mirror, Mirror!

Costin — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:08:07 +0000

Last week I spent some time with Lauren’s band, “Mirror, Mirror” and helped them record a 3 song demo. Here’s a link to their stuff:

http://www.box.net/shared/mw94lqp8og

Let me know what you think!

David Cook is the new American Idol!

Costin — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:45:07 +0000

Yey! The hard rockin bartender from montucky did it! He beat out child prodigy David Archuletta for the win even though the judges gave it all to Archuletta the night before. Archey just wasn’t real enough — totally a product of his father’s constant meddling in his life. Anyway, its late, I’m tired, but congratulations David Cook!

iPhone Arm-band Cases are Too Big!

Costin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:59:22 +0000

I bought one tonite for the gym, I put it on, and my arm looked puny. Granted, I don’t have huge arms, but strapping an iPhone to your arm just doesn’t work. They should discontinue them. It’s like wearing luggage as a backpack. It doesn’t work. Hear me Griffin??

google me baby!

Costin — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:48:23 +0000

Watching showtime at the Apollo last nite, lauren and I discovered a fresh new talent. All you gotta do is google the phrase “google me baby” and laughter will ensue.

American Idol Gives Back - So do I!

Costin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:04:45 +0000

Prompted by all the videos of orphaned African children, some born with AIDS, who never even had a chance, I decided to make a $20 donation. You should too. Click here to give back.