Bros is a Great Song – Panda Bear – Person Pitch

My first reaction to his album was that I haven't warmed to Animal Collective yet, so why Panda Bear? I ignored the high eMusic ranking for most of 2007. It scored so highly in year end 2007 top lists that I actually gave it a listen. The result is that my kids are frequently heard...

quick reading update

I've got too many in the fire at the moment ... which meant that I picked up Ender's Shadow at the library a few days ago and powered thru. I'm so addicted to these Ender Wiggin books. Other irons in the fire at the moment. Ian McEwan's - Saturday - I've read Amsterdam and Atonement...

MediaWiki Admin Tutorial Guide – PACKT

I do a fair bit of work with MediaWiki and finally broke down & bought the only book available MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide - by Mizanur Rahman. It's not that there isn't a lot of documentation available on-line. It's just that when I use something a lot, it's nice to have the book. I've found...

iGTD Mac ToDo List Manager

I was reading thru MacWorld's 2007 Reader's Choice Awards and stumbled across iGTD to-do list manager from Bartek Bargiel. I've decided to give it a try. I'm terrible with electronic ToDo list managers. I've never migrated from my notebook technique to the computer. Each time I start with some energy and eventually bail on it....

The Monster Switches of Cisco and Juniper

I'm having fun looking at the new Cisco Nexus and the Juniper EX series boxes. I particularly like the 256 x 10GbE ports per rack feature (noted in Lightreading). Wow! Juniper even says this is wire-rate. On a Internet design front. The focus of these boxes is intra-datacenter so it is no surprise that connectivity...