The Bay area’s finest Internet
Here in the heart of the land Internet made famous. My AirBnB, Internet included. The speed, well, see for yourself at the right. Stupendous. Latency? Enough to get to the moon and back.
A tradeshow giveaway that eats a bit of your soul and ego
Normally you need to go to your other in-law’s to get a pure, honest assessment of what is wrong with you. But this company decided to take that message on the road and package it up as a tradeshow giveaway. A fair and honest appraisal of my appearance? What, is this tinder for tradeshows ?…
Carnot efficiency and high tech. And a PSA: update your home router
So i’m in San Francisco for the next couple of days for a cyber security conference. A city known for technology. And let me share with you some views of how high tech that can be. First i present the indoor closed loop air conditioner. Carnot cycle be damned, I’m sure this all indoor airconditioner…
The LimeWire of today? Software hubs and caring what you share
We all had that friend back in the day, who’s PC was always infected with some sort of cancer due to their use of sharing hubs like LimeWire, BearShare, Kazaa, etc. And you always felt just a little bit superior for knowing where your software came from. Now, you are employed, professionaly. You are a…
The naked cloud: elasticsearch is stretch but doesn’t cover security
Similar to the previous post, there are a lot of infrastructural components that support today’s modern fancy application stacks. One of them, Elasticsearch, is the example used in this post. Its a simple schema-less database that allows you to scale in and out, drop stuff in, and query later. Add a blob and some keys…
Long Strange Trip
