Archive > April 2007

Bye-Bye Wildblue!

Well, the T1 is finally up and running. Man am I relieved. Can’t wait to give Wildblue the big boot out the door. In the past several weeks, we have had more outages than I can possibly count. It reminds me of the early days of cable modems. Anyway, now I can finally get the [...]

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet?

The latest report from Byte and Switch has me scratching my head. Now I’ve heard everything. Proponents of FC are looking to talk FC protocol over Ethernet to compete with the likes of iSCSI. Now, the last time I looked, iSCSI was facing difficulty entering the data center due to the existing investment in FC. [...]

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Classic Rap

I heard a song come on the radio this weekend and it got me thinkin’ about how rap has changed over the years. And I’m not rap-kinda-guy at all. I’m a rocker. I’ve posted on my musical tastes in the past. Having said that, I found myself singing a song I hadn’t heard in over [...]

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Finally! Blogger Login and Multiple Gmail Logins Peacefully Co-existing

So, have you been frustrated by the merger of Blogger and Google? I know I have. Despite the fact that I’ve been hosting my site via WordPress for a while now, I still maintain my Blogger account for the purpose of depositing comments with my signature details and avatar. However, this has become fairly cumbersome [...]

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Programmer Humor

Okay, here’s a techy post that some of you might appreciate a little. I stole this from another site, but most of it is strangely applicable to folks/things I know. There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works. Real programmers don’t work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers [...]

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