TED talks and biomimicry in IT
Today at lunch I sat down with Cherry 2010 at Subway, had a sandwich, and watched a TED Talk on biomimicry by Janine Benyus and what science can learn from the natural world. I came away thinking furiously about it, which I think is why TED opened up their talks recently.
Geeking out /dev/car – QR codes and plastic widgets
A few months back, I bought a new car. It’s a 2010 Kia Forte SX. In black. In Phoenix. Hey, pimpin’ ain’t easy! It starts out geeky, with a 6 speaker stereo that supports MP3 CDs, audio input jack, and a USB input (for USB sticks or, less elegantly, iPods). It has Bluetooth speakerphone/voice dial [...]
DNS Hijacking by ISPs (or: How I Learned to Stop Being RFC Compliant and Love the Paycheck)
Disclaimer: I work for a cable provider, but not one of the ones listed. I speak for myself alone here on this blog, from my own view of professional sysadmin ethics, now and always.
Sherman, set the wayback machine! The time? September 15th, 2003. In 2003, Verisign(since monikered as Verislime I might add) decided they had [...]
The extended outage
Ah, the extended outage. The dreaded dear-god-when-will-something-go-my-way-damnit outage. Every seasoned admin has had one, whether by accident or (faulty) design. This is the outage that impacts your customers for a long time, bringing pressure on you to “Just fix it”. As if it were, you know, like slapping a spare tire on the car or [...]
Rise of the Digital Nomad
I’ve noticed something interesting. People my generation are leaning heavily towards virtualization and platform independence. Normally when I say words like that, you can expect a technical discussion. Not this time, though. This time I am talking about life in general.