Google AppEngine abuse : possibly the first AppEngine site run by spammers — a fake storefront, reportedly
(tags: google appengine abuse web spam scams)TweetBackup : free Twitter backup site; nicely done. runs daily; doesn’t need your Twitter password; and exports to text and HTML
(tags: twitter backup tweets web microblogging)Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores : exhaustive, with great comments from many of the implementors
(tags: storage databases sca scalability memcached architecture aws performance simpledb couchdb dht voldemort scalaris hypertable hbase dynamo)Green party says sorry for e-mail gaffe – Times Online : wow, the “communications manager” for the Green Party is an unrepentant asshat. ‘some bloggers have developed their own set of rules about how they should be approached and the e-mail in question fell foul of these rules.’ Nice non-apology there! Entirely wrong — Unsolicited Bulk Email is spam, even if you’re a politician
(tags: politics ireland spam email greens ube)Irish Torrents : ‘Torrents of RTE, TV3, TG4 content’. a great collection of Irish TV programmes — unclear how well they’re seeded, or their rip quality, though
(tags: irish torrents bittorrent tv television ireland rte tv3 tg4)