Apparently, my domain has bumped up against a bandwidth issue with the web host. While we can easily correct the issue by setting a new default, it made me realize just how bad it is for me to maintain this blog. In fact, I think I can hear the sounds of the trees being bulldozed [...]
Carbon Footprints
Apparently, someone is concerned with Google searches:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10140142-54.html
Now, why are they focusing on Google? I mean, how many hits a day does Amazon.com get? Why pick on Google? What about MSN.com? (I would ask about Live Search but chances are not enough people bother using that for it to matter as far as power consumption.)
I recall [...]
More Violated Now Than Ever Before
Last week while I was trying to have a vacation in Las Vegas, something came up at work that seemed rather strange. It seems that our monitoring scripts for a particular server stopped working. Worse, our backups also started failing. We can live without monitoring for a period of time, but we really need to [...]
Whaddya Mean, It's Not Free?
I have been attending the WPPI conference in Las Vegas this week, keeping Congress company. I have been to lots of IT-related conferences in my career, but only a handful of conferences outside my current industry. So I was interested in learning more about how this conference was organized, how it was run, meeting some [...]