I never stop being fascinated by the fact that web admins have boxes online
that anyone in the world can reach out and touch. Visualizing this activity
is enthralling to me, as visualization often highlights answers to existing
ques…

One of the most depressing things in life is not being able have all your
friends from various phases of your life meet and spend time with each
other.

I have my first friends–from growing up and high school. I have my
…

[ NOTE: I am now using Nginx for everything, i.e. not using Varnish anymore,
and getting the same or better results. ]

I run
Varnish
here on the site, with
Nginx
as the backend. I’ve written before about my over…

One of the things I worry about most is not being able to recall the great
experiences that have happened to me over time. It’s not about forgetting
that I went to the beach in Israel that one time, or any other highlight
event. …

There are many things to regret as one nears death, but I understand people
tend to regret most the things they didn’t do rather than those they did.

You may be thinking now of activities, such as jumping out of an airplane,
…

Working in the information security field it’s frequently handy to be able
to browse the web in different configurations. Sometimes you want to be able
to see and interact with our traffic we speak with a server, sometimes you
wa…

In one of Malcolm Gladwell’s books he talked about how respect for authority
has caused a massive number of plane crashes over time. Basically, the
relationship between a senior and junior pilot was so severe in many
countries th…

One of my favorite things about true learning is that it magnifies itself.
True understanding doesn’t just teach you about the topic at hand, it also
modifies how you view the world.

The way this manifests most strongly is …

This next year is going to yield many debates on what our current President
has or has not accomplished in his first term. Here’s a collection (of
lists) of what he has accomplished.

http://obamaachievements.o…

I’m considering making an attempt to move from TextMate to MacVim/Janus as
my main text editor.

I have a few main things I do with TextEdit that I need to be able to
(mostly) replicate:

Git integration with m…