With the market price at $4/dog, and apparently high-demand areas chronically un-served almost everywhere you look, the Seattle hot-dog market seems, at first-glance, ripe for the picking. But for those would-be hot dog entrepreneurs among us: Why Seattle Doesn't Have More Street Food

Seattle is a shitty town for street food. Citywide, a mere 18 vendors offer hot dogs, popcorn, and espresso from open-air carts ... aspiring street vendors have attempted to set up shop ... find themselves hurdling through an obstacle course of often-perplexing regulations for the right to occupy a five-by-eight-foot space on the sidewalk.

Other cities have it worse.

Recently, (and very quietly), Amazon Web Services updated Simple Queue Service to Beta 2. What's new since November's initial release:

• Random Access to Queue Entries
• Improved Error Reporting
• API for Number of Entries in a Queue
• Entry-Specific Read-Lock

I was about to write a post about the adventure of putting more RAM in my Mac Mini, but a cursory web-search reveals that's so been done.

If you're willing to be a bit brutal, you can use a pocket-knife to crack the perfect, smooth, screwless case instead of the service-manual's suggested "modified putty-knife (Apple part #922-6761)".

According to the web-rumour mill, opening your Mini does not void the warranty ("unless you break something")

A 1GB DIMM on the after-market is half the price that Apple wants you to pay to have it pre-installed. For sale: One 256MB DDR 400Mhz DIMM ...