One of the many things I’ve had to do as part of transitioning to my new job is move my retirement savings (401k) over to a new provider. In this case I’ve been moving over to the Fidelity site. The security of financial web sites never fails to disappoint. No I didn’t try some crazy [...]
It’s been a million years since my last post. Standard excuses apply: day job has taken over my life. I am working on a technical post so expect that in the next few days. In the mean time, here’s an image that has come to define this crappy week: Only an oil company can make [...]
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Posted 28 April 2011
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Something I do in my day job a lot is read. I read tons of documents from peer reviewed publications, a bit less from periodicals like IEEE S&P, ACM Communications etc, and finally I get sucked into reading some vendor white papers / marketing crap. The density and value of the information in these documents [...]
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Posted 12 March 2011
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I had hoped to hold out on buying another cellphone until Nokia got their shit together and released the first Meego phone. With the latest news out of Nokia being a Microsoft partnership and the projected release of the N950 being “later in 2011″ it’s become painfully obvious that my N97 just won’t make it. [...]
Even though I’ve got an ebook reader I’m still on the look-out for a new one since the technology is moving so fast and new features seem to hit the market regularly. There’s no way I’m buying a Kindle because they don’t support the ePub format and that’s what the local library is using. I [...]
About 6 months ago I purchased a QNAP 419P NAS. I did a bunch of shopping around and settled on this one largely because it’s Linux based, runs on a low powered ARM cpu, and it’s got a pretty active community. After 6 months of operation I can’t say I’m thrilled, but it hasn’t been [...]
RANT ALERT! I’m writing this post as I’m waiting in a Verizon tech support phone queue. I’ve now waited through 4 different queues and spent 20 minutes convincing the first level tech that the reverse DNS PTR record I need in their DNS servers has nothing to do with DHCP. I’ve been on hold for [...]
