mitch's meanderings

Lifehacker shows you how to back up del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog. As the article points out, aside from backups, there are other benefits to doing this:

It also kills two birds with one stone: participate in the del.icio.us community AND update your blog daily with one del.icio.us post.

This is a “no-hassle” solution done completely through [...]

Adrian Holovaty explains how he’s using Amazon S3 to serve media files. I’m not entirely sure that this constitutes best use of S3, but this article is certainly worth reading if you are interested in a simple example using Python and the S3 API.