I’ve not made a big deal of linking to Jim Rome’s band tweet and the articles about it. The dude is a “shock” celebrity, so this kind of press is what he thrives on. Though in this specific case, he got a bit more than he expected.

Still, I have thought a bit about it. For reference, here’s Jim’s tweet:

“Is there anyone not in a marching band who ( Read more... )

So as with many drinks there is a competing claim to who invented the “Long Island Iced” tea. One of the oldest comes from the land of whiskey: Kentucky.

Ransom Bishop refers to the drink his grandfather “Old Man Bishop” put together in the 1920s. As a prohibition-era drink, it was a handy way to get a fair amount of alcohol in a visually ( Read more... )

Recently, some major service providers (notably Yahoo, Comcast and AOL) decided to bounce email that did not conform to the DMARC standard. As a side effect, this broke many long-standing configurations for mailing lists. Full details on this can be read elsewhere:

• http://www.spamresource.com/2014/04/up-in-arms-about-yahoos-dmarc-policy.html
• http:// ( Read more... )

I think I’ve had the best business idea I’ve had in years.

It’s simple. I want to make a DNS registrar.

Yeah, I know there are dozens of them. But this is the difference:

It will be a ZERO UPSELL registrar. I will charge you what is the basic price I can to make the business profitable, and that’s it.

You register your domains with me and I will ( Read more... )

Yeah… it rocked.

I hope to post the music links soon.

That is one of the best concerts I’ve played.

[ Published from Notes and accidentals. You can comment here or there. ]

I don’t necessarily publicize all the concerts I play in.

I do this for a few reasons. #1 I recognize that not all concerts that are fun to play are necessarily fun to listen to. (Especially for some modern works.) And #2 I would be posting lots of times because I tend to play in several groups.

Which is all a round about way to say this: This ( Read more... )

I work for the professional services division of a company that is mostly a storage reseller. (VAR)

What this means is there is often a desire to package up services that people like me can provide along with the hardware that we sell. The professional services side is often a nice add on. Think of this as a short-form of a sales pitch:

“I tell you ( Read more... )

Today’s mischief is brought to you by the line-noise that you can compile: Perl!

You can add this code ANYWHERE in an executing perl stack. (a module, a referenced library, an inherited base class, etc) Then at any point the perl application warns() or dies() and shows the accompanying error, the line number is shown roman numerals.

BEGIN ( Read more... )

I let the whole journaling thing go for a while, so I think I should fill a few key things back in.

Most of my work of late has centered around the DevOps movement and related technologies. In many ways, it’s providing terms and frameworks for stuff that I have long know was “the right way” to do things.

A big turning point in understanding was ( Read more... )

I forgot to post about this from last fall.

Merlin Patterson arranged the complete Holst suite “The Planets” for wind ensemble. We got a preview copy. I had also recently purchased a GoPro camera. So I left it sitting on a stand at the back during the concert.

So here is a Tympani-eye view of what the performance was like, with the concert audio ( Read more... )