Come on a journey with me. I’ve begun a blog about the multi-year process of becoming an all-electric car family. carlhowe.com/blog/first-pos…

I’m getting my first new car in 15 years soon. I hear there may be a couple of new features, such as its lack of a gas tank.

I would substitute “My friend Catherine” for instances of “My cat” in tweets, but my wife wouldn’t like it. xkcd.com/1689/

Glad MIT moved the hooding ceremony to its own day. I remember it was very long, and yet the Ph.D. grads deserved every second and more.

Re MIT commencement today: For ~60 years, my great-grand aunt Julia sorted and laid out the diplomas so every grad received his/her own.

OK, outage ended at about 4 hours, only costing about $31 million in deferred (not necessarily lost) revenue.

OK, so the outage is only North America, so Amazon is really only losing $129,000 per minute (source: most recent 10-Q).

Amazon’s losses are probably less than $222,000/min because search doesn’t affect AWS, but still…..

Assuming search is required for Amazon to generate revenue, Amazon is losing about $222,000 per minute that search is down.