I majored in Economics with a focus on game theory, so I like to share it with my kids. I usually spend anywhere from a day to a week on the subject, depending on the students' engagement. Because Econ often... | Continue »

1. The network is reliable. 2. Latency is zero. 3. Bandwidth is infinite. 4. The network is secure. 5. Topology doesn’t change. 6. There is one administrator. 7. Transport cost is zero. 8. The network is homogenous. via lonesysadmin.net A good list to always keep in mind. :) | Continue »

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What do you get the fat IT guy who has everything? You get him fatter, that's what. I waddled back to my desk this afternoon to find this gift from a happy IT customer. Said customer - let's call her "Talysson," and there is no need to poke around trying to find out who it is, and it certainly isn't the woman with the shiny new 13" 2.44Ghz MacBook Pro with 4Gb of RAM. DO NOT ASK THE TALYSSON WOMAN ABOUT HER NEW MACBOOK PRO - was thrilled with the stellar service she received from the IT department. Thrilled. Stellar.... | Continue »

Over at her blog, Leah Culver is all "look what I did!" in 3 weeks of heads-down iPhone development:"I'm three weeks into developing my first iPhone application, for Plancast. It's been crazy and fun to try to learn something new so quickly! In case you are thinking of getting started with iPhone development, here's how I got started... I stopped reading right there, because, really: she's a girl, and I don't need to know what programming tips she picked up in Teen Cosmo or while she was doing her nails. This weekend, I burned the midnight oil to close my... | Continue »

Modern day life, how fast food takes over not just the hungry and hurried, but entire economies, families, and ways of life. Via Kokochi. | Continue »

I've just changed the fonts on my blog so many times that I no longer have any concept of design aesthetic. I think I like it. We'll see in the morning. I also attempted to start working on the new... | Continue »

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Dear Ladies of San Francisco, I was really hoping you'd figure this out on your own, that an open letter of this sort would not become a necessity, that you'd perhaps pick up a three-year-old issue of In Style from... | Continue »

How could I NOT love my daughter’s blog? She is beautiful, smart, witty, and unbelievably courageous… I’m having lunch with my sister (a relationship about which a whole series of novels could be written, or maybe only a couple of... | Continue »

As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access. Failing to comprehend this is not only a failure of empathy, but a failure of... | Continue »

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"This is the promise they all made in November," to contribute to change by getting more involved in the political process, he said. "I can't wait to pull that trigger on them." The good news is that my dear friend,... | Continue »

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Mark Newport grew up, like many kids, wanting to be a superhero. Inspired by his mother's handmade sweaters, Newport crafts full-body acrylic knit Superhero costumes that are created to explore the connection "...between childhood experience and an adult understanding of protection, masculinity, and heroism" while "...offering the space for someone... | Continue »

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