Archive for February, 2009

Macbook networking issues

I noticed recently that my macbook was having issues communicating with certain websites. One site was a management portal for a customer and another was the entire suite of apache.org websites. Since I’m using the apache projects on a daily basis, not being able to access these websites is a major issue. The behavior that [...]

Moon over Redwood City

My wife Jaimie, purchased a Meade telescope for me a couple of years ago, but I was never really able to get into using it. My eyes just weren’t meant to look through an eyepiece. While browsing Amazon recently I came across an interesting little gadget, the Meade LPI Digital Camera. It fits into the [...]

The market needs a few more failures

After reading a post over at Daily Kos, it seems like at some point companies are going to have to wake up and realize that they’re not promoting the type of behavior that they want to by handing out golden parachutes. Of course if we keep bailing out these companies they’ll just never get  the [...]