Archive for January, 2007

If You’re Not Using memcached You’re Doing It Wrong

If you’re building web sites or applications, and you’re not using memcached yet, you should be. Hogan showed me memcache a while back, and I literally implemented it the same day. Even if your site isn’t high traffic it hopefully will be in the future. When that time comes you’re going to wish [...]

This Electronic Voting Thing Isn’t That Hard

Our country is facing the biggest threat to our way of life, ever. It is not Osama, not Bush, and not Hillary. It is the risk that we may lose what makes this country what it is. It is our freedom to choose our elected officials. The time has passed when [...]

I Can Guess Your Password

OK, maybe not. But most people do pick poor passwords. I just read an article on digg that suggests a method to create an easy, stronger password. I disagree with this nonsense method, as it is exactly the type of complicated thing that leads to weak passwords. I must type passwords [...]

Proof That You Can Have a Ph.D. and Still be an Idiot

I was reading and noticed this article purportedly supporting non-net-neutrality. Intrigued, I read the excerpt which cited Akamai as an example of non-net-neutrality. I have a few friends at Akamai (well, less now) and I understand what they do pretty well. Unfortunately, this clown, Professor Yoo does not.
In case you haven’t [...]