Garden and Sea House. By Japanese Architect Takao Shiotsuka.
I really dig modern architecture, heavy use of whites, concrete walls, glass, marble, etc. This house is just perfect.
“WESTFIELD, Mass. – An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.
The boy lost control of the weapon while firing it Sunday at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club, police Lt. Lawrence Vallierpratte said.
Police said the boy, Christopher Bizilj (Bah-SEAL) of Ashford, Conn., was with a certified instructor and called the death a “self-inflicted accidental shooting.”
As the boy fired the Uzi, “the front end of the weapon went up with the backfire and he ended up receiving a round in his head,” police Lt. Hipolito Nunez said. The boy died at a hospital.
The boy’s father and older brother were also there at the time, a gun club member and school official said. Francis Mitchell, a longtime member and trustee of the club, said he was told the boy’s father was supporting his son from behind when the shooting happened.”
This is an awful tragedy, but honestly, the father should be arrested for negligence. When does it ever seem like a good idea to hand a fully automatic Uzi machine gun to your 8 year old child and let them fire it off like Rambo? I mean, what’s the point? Nothing good can come out of it. For Christ sake, pickup a baseball and glove, and do some parenting.
According to this article, Rackspace paid $16.5 million for both Jungle Disk, and Slicehost together.
Since I have little expertise or knowledge about Jungle Disk, I am going to factor it out, and focus exclusively on Slicehost.
The article claims that Slicehost has more than 15,000 active slices. Doing some guesses at the math, let’s say on average each slice pays $43 a month, the cost of a 256MB ($20), 512MB ($38), 1024MB ($70) slice combined, divided by three.
That equals $645,000 per month in reoccurring revenue, or $7.7 million per year in gross revenue for Slicehost alone.
If the above numbers are anywhere close to correct, as I suspect they are, it seems like Rackspace got a killer deal.
I have been using Slicehost for my hosting needs for close to six months. I have also referred a handful of my close friends to them as well. Firstly, Slicehost has offered me amazing customer service, exceptional uptime, and flexibility few others offer. They provide full root access to a variety of Linux flavors, my favorites being CentOS and Fedora. Recently they have added much-requested features such as bandwidth pooling, private ip addresses, and a knowledgebase and help article library that rivals anything on the net.
Let me first congratulate Jason, Jared, and the rest of the crew on being acquired by Rackspace. I imagine you guys are out celebrating like rock stars.
Moving forward, I hope Slicehost can continue to provide the personal and extraordinary service and customer support previously offered. Rackspace is a solid company, and I hope they realize, what aint broke, don’t need fixing.
Official Slicehost Announcement
http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/10/22/big-news-today
The Slicehost & Rackspace FAQ
http://www.slicehost.com/rackspace
Amazing! My 03′ is300 might have to get the boot for this.
`Heartless` is a new single from Kanye’s album: `808s & Heartbreak`.
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Also, here is an awesome remix of `Love Lockdown` as an added bonus.
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