What is Bandwidth
I typically abhor comparing computer items to “real world” items; your computer is not a house and your network isn’t a neighborhood. However bandwidth is amazingly like a highway and I’d like to talk about it here because, frankly, I’m tired of talking about it at 3am with the sales team. Bandwidth is like a [...]
Password Insecurity Quickfix
I just happened upon this brute force calculator and it amazes me how just one word, “Password”, has kept security back soooo many years. Our “passwords” require numbers and symbols and can’t be based on dictionary words and have to be changed and all of this nonsense. It has obviously made people use the same password, [...]
Whoops, I’m on Hackernews
Yesterday my post on Nasdaq ITCH made it onto Hackernews. I got over 1700 uniques, and 16 comments on Hackernews (all surprisingly nice for my level of knowledge on the subject). I have no idea if my site handled the traffic well, as I wasn’t watching and I have little more then Google Analytics watching [...]
Google vs Microsoft
Google and Microsoft seem to be pretty pissed that they are grabbing each other’s information. Even on a personal level they are tweeting about it (Techcrunch details). Of course both companies are building their search platforms by capturing our information and providing it to marketers to provide relevant ads. But when they do it to [...]
Programming Is Like Writing a Theme
Right, so around Christmas you know how TBS plays “A Christmas Story” for 24 hours straight? After seeing that a few times, and then having it happen again the next year over and over it really made me start to think about programming and task automation. You know the story; you’ve seen it 24 times [...]
