More news from the front… GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER, SAYS EXPERT
Before I get into this article… I want to rebut something else that’s been part of this story. It’s being reported that Dr Richard Muller is a long time AGW (anthropomorphic global warming) skeptic and so the fact that he appears to have done a 180 adds to the drama of the story. In fact this is not true at all.. he never was a skeptic.
In an interview about his book back in 08 he was asked what the next president needed to. . .
Anyone who has to manage servers and other equipment in remote datacenters can appreciate the need for good documentation. One reason you appreciate good documentation so much is because it’s so rare. People are lazy and forgetful and when changes are made by lots of different people in lots of different locations it’s easy for reference docs to get out of date and unreliable. So from those two concepts was born a need to create dynamic rack face diagrams and end the dependance on the manual task of updating and. . .
A few quotes come to mind when I think about what Ron Paul and the Tea Party ideals represent. Churchill said: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” It seems the media is once again attempting to pick the Republican candidate much as they did last time around with McCain. The media is trying to focus attention exclusively on Perry and Romney… which reminds me a lot of the bit from Futurama where the two clones John Jackson and. . .
One of the reasons I like and support the use of open source software is that you can avoid most of the drama that comes from relying on 3rd party vendors. By this I mean.. you must pay exorbitant sums for ongoing maintenance, you are locked into their product upgrade treadmill, you have little say in the direction of their products, you have a single source for support, and if your vendor gets acquired there is a very good chance the product you depend on will go away or change in ways. . .
I’m often ask what it is I do for a living… and being lazy I usually just say ‘computer stuff’. In an effort to provide a little more context to anyone who may be interested this is one in a series of postings where I’ll cover some aspect of what it is I do.
In my current role I spend part of the time doing development projects. (aka programming) I’m not a hard core developer though.. it’s not my full time occupation nor do I want it to be. I work mostly with perl and php when necessary, . . .
With all the fear mongering about radiation exposure in media lately I thought it would good to get a little clarity. I found this great chart that breaks down the normal levels of exposure we all get in everyday life and compares it with what’s going on in Japan.. and what happened with the other two major reactor incidents from history. So far.. it’s really not as bad as everyone in the media is making it out to be. I keep hearing about these ‘worst case’ scenarios that are less. . .
