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Perfect weekend

In a perfect world, a few things would happen this weekend:

After partying, partying, partying on Friday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday and Sunday, Sunday, Rebecca Black and all of her friends get to class Monday and realize they should have spent a little time studying, studying, studying (yeah!) and all fail their biology exam. That one kid’s dad takes his convertible Mercedes away from him for, like, a whole week.

After quitting UCLA over her racist YouTube rant, Alexandra Wallace realizes the reason she’s been tired so much is because she has mono. After several months of recovery, she enrolls in a local community college, eventually graduating with an associate certificate in elderly care. Her first job is emptying bed pans at a nursing home for Chinese-Americans.

Jimmy Wong gets laid. A lot.

It’s now possible to change EC2 instance types

It’s now possible to change EC2 instance types

This is fantastic. The way it used to work, you’d create an EC2 slice that was a bundle of emulated hardware – dedicated RAM, processor, etc – and if you needed more, you had to physically move everything over to a new instance. Easy enough, and scriptable, but still kind of a pain, especially in high traffic scenario. It also created some confusion, in that scaling your system meant you could add new slices but not change the slices themselves.

Now, you can stop an instance, click a dropdown and choose a new instance type, allowing you to “scale” almost instantly.