Posted in IT Architecture on August 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
I agree with the list of What coworkers need to noodle for 2010…, but its missing at least one thing: Web 2.0. I’m not sure its an oversight, even though posted at 7:30AM on Saturday, way before my coffee. (Milk and cookies kept you awake, eh James?). The only obvious technology or technical architectural features related […]
Posted in Cooking on August 12th, 2006 No Comments »
Does the Sugar Quota make you Fat? discusses the prevalence of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in our diet. I am also alarmed at how difficult it is to find foods without this ingredient. Examples that might surprise you include:
salad dressing, including Italian varieties low fat yogurt any fruit juice “cocktail” ketchup
It is difficult to find anything sweet […]
Posted in IT Architecture on August 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Server infrastructure consolidation requires analysis of factors beyond the attributes of the servers themselves. Operations and maintenance costs for server infrastructure are important factors, but other factors orthogonal to these attributes will have a large impact on ranking servers for consolidation. This is particularly true for phased consolidation of servers in the data center, the most […]
Posted in IT Architecture on August 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Its inevitable, as things go round and round. I came to this conclusion while fiddling with my WordPress installation, working with a single blog entry. I’m currently working on a tool set that I’d like to be small, extensible and very like the command-line UNIX tools I’ve always admired. I started this blog to have somewhere […]
Posted in Photography on August 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Hot and Cold Running Kitty Originally uploaded by Lou Springer. It’s odd to me that this is the most popular photo on my flickr site. It was taken in haste. It was dumb luck catching it there. It can’t be repeated and its many compositional flaws fixed; the cat doesn’t fit there anymore. I didn’t do much […]
Posted in IT Architecture on August 7th, 2006 No Comments »
There is surely a connection between the tendency to divergence and complexity. How can it be helped? Today was a case in point. It started with a simple idea: building a set of small components into a tool-chain for doing forced ranking exercises. So let me diverge for a moment to explain what this means. Forced […]
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