Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

links for 2008-04-15

• Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier
  (tags: amazon aws ec2 programming s3 scalability storage persistent)
• Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 - All Things Distributed
  (tags: amazon aws ec2 programming storage persistent)
• Mario Theme Played with RC Car and Bottles
  Cool!
  (tags: video music rc mario)
• Donald Knuth: Calculus via O notation
  (tags: education knuth math mathematics)
• Socklabs Blog
  (tags: blogs erlang programming)
• Can your type checking system do this?
  (tags: programming types static dynamic ocaml haskell java)
• Google Mashup Editor Tour
  (tags: programming web2.0 google mashups)
• App Engine and Pylons
  (tags: appengine google programming pylons python)
• Google App Engine: The good, the bad, and the ugly?
  (tags: appengine programming google python)
• Google AppEngine - A Second Look
  (tags: appengine programming bigtable scalability google python distributed)
• AppDrop
  AppEngine clone for AWS EC2?
  (tags: amazon appengine aws ec2 google python appdrop)

Less than 52 hours until I’m done

I have a final exam at 2pm on Wednesday. It's my only final exam this term out of four courses. If you're thinking "lucky guy" you're wrong. Classes that don't have final exams make up for it by having a big final project instead.

Final project: A week or more of solid work

Final exam: Study for a few hours and write an exam

Sure, you get more out of a project than an exam, but when you have three of them all due at the same time, it's not easy to manage. Actually, the course that does have a final exam also had an assignment due on the last day of class, but it wasn't as big as the projects for the other classes.

Anyway, 52 hours from now I will be finished my undergraduate studies! How should I celebrate?