Substitute drew my attention to this article about obtaining quality via quantity. Interesting implications if it scales, which I suspect it does.

From Erik Kuhnke, via the nanog mailing list, I give you The Gallery of Shameful Cabling. This is one of my favorites, if only because of the modems that are trying to escape their fate, although I must admit that this one is just plain odd.

Thanks to Rahaeli, we now have Shpxurnq. UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: 10-15 cm of snow overnight A fully-decorated Christmas tree right behind me A jar full of gingerbread cookies in the kitchen The results of the latter can be found in this post of ‘s. Some of the decorating got a bit odd. In this picture you can […]

I wasn’t going to do this one, but then Candice did it based on Stimps‘s, and that makes it interesting. Here’s the deal: 1. Copy this whole list into your journal. 2. Bold the things that you have in common with me. 3. Whatever you don’t bold, replace with things about you. 01. I only […]

I and 19 other employees, chosen apparently randomly, have a breakfast meeting with Mitel’s CEO tomorrow morning. This will be incredibly odd. Today was spent fighting with Win2k, and then fighting more with Win2k, followed by fighting with vmware, in which Win2k is running, followed by fighting with Win2k. One of the problems of being […]

I am SO TIRED today, because yesterday was an incredibly intense day. First, I had a meeting with my new manager at work to clarify responsibilities and so forth. There have been a lot of moves in the last few months, through a couple of rounds of layoffs; after the last layoff, the NSSG Operations […]

I downloaded a whole bunch of free mp3s from Matador Records the other day. (I encourage you to do the same; there’s a lot of great music there and you will probably find new bands you like, which is always a good thing.) There’s one track there, 14 Zero Zero by Console, and it reminds […]