links for 2009-03-04

  • Useful shell script to open the document folder or preferences for an application in the iPhone Simulator.
  • In reality, a family earning $255,000 will pay the higher tax rate only on its last $5,001 in income; the first $249,999 will continue to be taxed at the old rate. So intentionally lowering your income from $255,000 to $249,999 is counter-productive; it will result in a lower after-tax income. The people ABC quoted don't seem to understand that. Worse, ABC doesn't seem to understand it, either.

links for 2009-02-26

  • Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications. An initial list of data sets is already available, and more will be added soon.