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		<title>shipped libcloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woo! We shipped an implementation of libcloud, check it out over on libcloud.org. It is a pure python library for working with a variety of cloud server providers. It is still a work in progress, but would love to get others involved!
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		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2009/07/23/shipped-libcloud/</link>
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		<title>Cloudkick takes &#8220;Best in Show&#8221; at Under the Radar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, we presented at the Under the Radar conference. Things went really well, and Cloudkick ended up taking best in show (people&#8217;s choice)! Techcrunch did a nice article on our progress. Exciting times!
Here is a link to the presentation if you are interested. 
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		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2009/04/26/cloudkick-takes-best-in-show-at-under-the-radar/</link>
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		<title>Launching is awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today has been an amazing week &#8212; and it is only half over! On Monday, we launched our product Cloudkick. Cloudkick is a system to manage cloud servers, like those provided by Amazon EC2 or Slicehost. We have been building this over the past three months as part of the y-combinator program. It was very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2009/03/18/launching-is-awesome/</link>
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		<title>Pico-Garden!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was like 70 degrees here today, so I decided to plant a garden. 

Yep, it&#8217;s along the base of the fence line. Eh, it&#8217;s the best I can do with what I have. I&#8217;ll let you know how it works out. :)
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		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2009/01/12/pico-garden/</link>
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		<title>Automatic failover on EC2 with heartbeat and Elastic IPs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Put together a little hack &#8230; thought I would share &#8230; it allows you to do automatic failover on EC2, using the AWS &#8220;elastic ip&#8221; feature. Not perfect, but very cool!
Posted over on the AWS forums:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=112816
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		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2009/01/07/automatic-failover-on-ec2-with-heartbeat-and-elastic-ips/</link>
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		<title>Get around EC2 filesystem limits (sort of)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I got myself pretty excited about an EC2 hack. Essentially I was able to create arbitrarily sized root filesystems, when the limit was supposed to be 10GB&#8230; or so I thought.
A little background. Amazon AWS allows you to make custom machine images to boot their &#8220;elastic compute&#8221; (EC2) nodes. Essentially they are a giant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2008/12/12/get-around-ec2-filesystem-limits-sort-of/</link>
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		<title>Getting cache statistics with mod_cache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The always awesome Paul Querna came up with a cool trick to log cache hits/misses. In your virtual host set the environment variable SetEnv CACHE_MISS 1, then log it using your CustomLog with %{CACHE_MISS}e. It will log as &#8220;1&#8243; when it is a miss, or as &#8220;-&#8221; when it gets hit. 
How does it work? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2008/12/04/getting-cache-statistics-with-mod_cache/</link>
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		<title>Police Scanner and GNURadio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping and eye on the police has never been so much fun! Recently, my friend John lent me his USRP, allowing me to play with GNURadio. From wikipedia: 
The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) is a high-speed USB-based board for making software radios.

GNURadio is a free software, software radio. Essentially, the USRP allows you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2008/11/09/police-scanner-and-gnuradio/</link>
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		<title>Hungry Scientist in the NYT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check it out! Pat&#8217;s book was on the front page of the dining section in the New York Times today! I went down to Borders to get a copy, and while I was there did a little clean up of the &#8220;Reference&#8221; section&#8230;
Before:

After:

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		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2008/10/29/hungry-scientist-in-the-nyt/</link>
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		<title>Net Nightly News 2008-10-24</title>
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This is a hack I&#8217;m working on &#8230; trying to grab the daily news from the web and make an episode.
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		<link>http://alex.polvi.net/2008/10/24/net-nightly-news-2008-10-24-1224883389/</link>
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