Monthly Archives: January 2015

@comcast offered to reduce internet bill if we take cable TV. It’s been 5 years without, we didn’t miss it at all. First impresssion after activation: who watches this crap? This is unbelievable, literally a thousand channels of offense to every thinking neuron in my brain. Fortunately we didn’t commit to actually watch TV!

@bruce_schneier QOTD: “It’s always amusing to see when Google complains about the government spying on their users, because it is their job to spy on their users.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ui3tLbzIgQ&feature=youtu.be

Words fail me: @eff: “the government stated that the database it used was unconstitutional” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/many-problems-deas-bulk-phone-records-collection-program

Really, @turbotax: “Dspsd ppty type must be entered.”

Very excellent discussion of platforms in a very old @davewiner post: http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/01/26/thesfwebolution.html#2

Sometimes I’m thinking @awscloud runs its EC2 servers on junk hardware. Just how often can those servers fail so completely?

Living in California.