links for 2008-04-18

Standalone Silverlight Applications – Miguel de Icaza

“I have no idea how extensive the AIR APIs are, whether they are sandboxed or whether they provide full access to all the APIs like our Moonlight Full API provides, but you can build some cute desktop applications with it.”

(tags: migueldeicaza adobe air moonlight silverlight ria)
AWS Service Health Dashboard – Apr 17, 2008

this is very interesting

(tags: amazon aws ec2 s3 status dashboard health uptime)
Amazon.com: PS – AWS home page: Help: PS FAQs, PS Guidelines & More

this is even more interesting

(tags: aws amazon ec2 s3 support webservices)
English Russia » Unknown creature was found by soldiers

weird looking thing

(tags: science photos weird russia photography creature unidentified)
Ballmer says Vista is a ‘work in progress’

“Windows Vista: A work in progress. [Laughter, applause.] A very important piece of work, and I think we did a lot of things right, and I think we have a lot of things we need to learn from.”

(tags: windows vista steveballmer microsoft)