I was very honored today. Bill St. Arnaud, of CANARIE, one of the most respected and well known voices in broadband mentioned my work blog

Thanks to Doug Alder also maintains an excellent blog on this subject

He also invited me to be a speaker at a large conference this fall on the topic. I’m sending my boss Brian instead no way I get up on stage!

Wow.

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I put up a new post at work today on Server Security

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As if Rev. Hagee wasn’t bad enough, the asshole who said God unleashed Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans to punish it for its homosexual sins, now we see that Senator McCain has actively sought, and received, the endorsement of Rev. Rod Parsley, a virulent hater of all things Islam. He calls Parsley “a spiritual guide”. The real question here is why is the MSM not dragging his ass over the coals for his close association with these two bigots.

via: Brave New Films

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Don’t you just hate it when upgrades go wroing I upgraded Apache to 2.2.8, MySQL to 5.0.45-community and PHP to 5.2.6 last night and, if you tried visiting here you know it did not go well :(. Before you can recompile Apache on a cPanel system it’s always advisable to upgrade cPanel first to the latest version. That’s where things went wroing [sic]. It seems there was problem with the MD5 hash on one of the update files and at that point my limited skills fell apart and I had to get the great support guys at work (RackForce) to fix the cPanel upgrade for me so I could recompile Apache. This all started because I wanted to add some more layers of security , in particular suhosin to harden PHP. In any case, I’m back, I’m sure much yo your great disappointment LOL.

fwiw: if any of you are familiar with CSF (ConfigServerFirewall) my rating is currently

and no I won’t tell you which two items I haven’t fixed yet

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I was sitting outside enjoying my after work coffee when I was visited by a bunch of White Crowned Sparrows. Alas my camera sucks and the pictures aren’t good but here’s a mating pair

Male

Female

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Via Frank

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16:24 minutes well spent. Clay Shirky talks about cognitive surplus and it’s capacity to transform society.

via Frank

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Maybe I should believe in karma after all. Remember two years ago when everyone (myself included) reported on the Bush family buying up a 100,000 acre ranch in Paraguay, that long time haven for the scum of the world as it has no extradition treaties? Well it seems that the new leftist leader, Fernando Lugo Mendez, a suspended Catholic bishop, is starting to make overtures towards signing some extradition treaties. Looks like your bolt hole just had it’s door slammed shut in your face Georgie boy.

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Mere hours later Felix tries to gain control over his chair. Riley ignores him

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Delightful British musical comedy

via: Living the Scientific Life

        

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another myth shattered. It seems that it was the very high alcohol (70%) content in absinthe that made people crazy and not the ketone, thujone. Darn those scientists

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