Itty bitty vastness

It takes a while to go through it but it's pretty cool: http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/nano.swf…

Horses?

Something about falling off a horse and not getting back on it...anyway... If anyone knows good people we're looking for the following at FTDATA: Senior Microsoft Engineer in NoVA Senior Engineers with Security experience in MD Federal and commercial Account Managers.  Closers.  Not BD.  People I…

"Reciprocal Altruism"

I saw this phrase in an article today and it just struck me as very comical.  However, I checked Wikipedia and there's an entry!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism Ah, philosophy! Sorry about the long drought between articles there.  I'm back…

'tis the season

I guess at the end of it I enjoy this time of year.  There's one unchanging reality though.  After Thanksgiving there's just no getting anything done that's not related to preparing for Christmas. I've been noodling switching to SageTV for…

So maybe I was wrong...

...but not entirely.  Turns out the 180 day waiting period for tests is only if you pass.  That makes more sense as the only good reason you'd have for going back right away is to braindump. Ok, so maybe I jumped the gun a bit. Still,…

Cisco's SMB focus is superficial

I certainly hope this isn't the case.  If it turns out to be wrong I'll post an apology.  However, in a recent post on CiscoBlog there's a troubling comment.  The post itself shows how silly Cisco can be about certain things.…

Ron Paul ('s ideals) for President.

I'm not sure that anyone cares but I'm officially endorsing Ron Paul for President.  That being said, I really wish I could just nominate his ideals.  I like the idea of a strict adherence to the Constitution.  As Glenn at Instapundit suggests, Ron Paul as a…

PVR woes

We've been Tivo owners for some years now.  We used to use it constantly, now we just use it often.  The sole reason is HD.  Or rather, lack of a good way to record HD.  Yes, we can get the HR20 from DirecTV but I don't…