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Archive for January, 2010

Andy Murray Drops to #5

For the first time in almost 1.5 years, Britian’s Andy Murray is out of the ATP top 4 as his decision not to attempt to defend his Qatar Open title this past week in Doha saw him lose 250 ranking points and so slide down to #5 behind Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro who moves [...]

Surprise! Not all Amazon EC2 compute units are created equal

A very interesting discovery made by our sys admin not so long ago: While Amazon EC2 sells its hosting services on the notion of leasing virtualized servers with a guaranteed amount of standard compute units, memory and disk space, it turns out that in fact, not all EC2 compute units are created equal. In other [...]

Fantastic Nikolay does it again!

Congrats to veteran Russian slugger Nikolay Davydenko as he pulls off what only one other man (that is David Nalbandian) has ever done before – beat Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in back to back tournaments. His win today at Doha in the Qatar Open over Rafa in the finals (beating Fed in the semis, [...]