Broke a zone with a CNAME at the root
…which it turns out is illegal.
….you can’t have a CNAME be the same as a zone name, since a zone has at least an SOA record (and, arguably, at least one NS record as well), and the CNAME can’t co-exist with it. Just use an A record and be happy.
and that defeats the purpose of me not having to maintain multiple 2nd level domain name IPs with CNAMEs. But now I’m older and wiser…
Neat idea now that CDs and DVDs aren’t that necessary… replace the Mac optical drive with a second hard drive. Not always practical but could be good for some folks, or maybe for me in the future.
Google Voice – one number with voicemail transcription
Automating email filters – OtherInbox. Of course, ClearContext currently does great stuff for me on that, and basic rules in Outlook or Mail or Zimbra do fine for vanilla patterns…
Multicore technology and how development is going to utilize them all…
Obama’s campaign technologies… how many of them could you or I use for business or pleasure?
A Bionic Eye… coming soon.
Femtocells – an interesting solution to being in the hills, away from wireless carriers’ nodes. Now if only the carriers weren’t charging extra for them… they should really be paying people to install them.
Offline web applications – they’re coming, and AIR looks pretty slick. Of course, it’s only one technology, but the idea is a good one.
Manipulating wearable computers without stopping your regular business
an interesting idea – instead of a big inverter, use micro-inverters at a panel level to make the panels independently useful and optimizable…
Mishmash of articles – Part II
Management Tips: Gen X vs. Gen Y
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn | Guy Kawasaki
A multi purpose launcher and more advanced and customizable freeware windows run replacement and more…
Bye-Bye, BPA
BPA/Phthalate-Free Shopping List
Now that we’re reading lots more about BPA and its low-level bad effects, we’re figuring out how to get our plastics to be non-BPA
sslstrip – transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links
Mostly, becoming a program manager is about learning: learning about technology, learning about people, and learning how to be effective in a political organization. A good program manager combines an engineer’s approach to designing technology with a politician’s ability to build consensus and bring people together.
I haven’t updated my list of solar cell info recently, either…
Continuing Electric Car Progress
Cringely has a great article about bowling that has given me something deep to ponder about my work life…
I learned an important lesson that day; success in a large organization, whether it’s a university or IBM, is generally based on appearance, not reality. It is understanding the system and then working within it that really counts, not bowling scores or body bags.
In the world of high-tech start-ups, there is no system, there are no hard and fast rules, and all that counts is the end product.
The high-tech start-up bowling league would allow genetically-engineered bowlers, superconducting bowling balls, tactical nuclear weapons—anything to help your score or hurt the other guy’s.
Anything goes, and that’s what makes the start-up so much fun.
And now for the navel-gazing.
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Ntop [ntop.org].
Nagios [nagios.org].
MRTG [oetiker.ch].