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In today’s newsletter from Amazon Web Services, I found out that Amazon S3 is launching storage in Europe. Some of the prices are slightly higher (compare here) but for the potentially higher EU transfer speeds, it should be well worth it.

As of now, the code samples appear to have been updated to support creation of buckets located in the EU, but the documentation is still the old one. Some of the more popular S3 tools, such as S3Sync and JetS3t, are also yet to be updated.

Update: S3Sync and JetS3t now support EU buckets, and updated documentation on how to create them using the API is available here.

First of all, I’m not in Japan. I did, however, notice that that there is a new MUJI (無印良品) section in a Stockholm department store, where there are office supplies for sale, among other things.

While in Hong Kong, I found out that the Japanese are very good with all kinds of office supplies (definitely much better than us Europeans).

Being able to buy some of those products here is certainly good news to me. The Japanese price tags rather clearly tell that the prices here are a rip-off compared to what they are in Japan, though, but I guess that is to be expected.

Photo taken during a walk this weekend. Stockholm is rather beautiful sometimes, in its own way.