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Restore Morsi Now! 5 Jul 2013 | 02:49 pm
I am no fan of the Muslim Brotherhood, as many of their political positions are diametrically oppose to my own. However. I am a big fan of democracy. However imperfect his election and that of the ...
What was the strategy of the Allied Forces in WWII? 14 Apr 2013 | 05:00 pm
I’ve recently read two books relating to World War II. The first was Ike: An American Hero, a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Michael Korda, which is a near idolizing tale of Ike, in which the ...
Administrative Note of the Day 13 Apr 2013 | 11:21 am
If you had an account on this system, I’ve had to delete it. It has nothing to do with how well I know you or anything like that, but that there is a raging botnet war, and any account on … Continue r...
Who owns your identity? 12 Apr 2013 | 04:35 pm
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Right? Not if you are known at all. Those days are gone. As if to prove the point, one of my favorite web sites is on the wrong side of this issue. …...
North Korean Nonsense: 30 Mar 2013 | 06:01 pm
In the last two weeks we’ve heard about how the North Koreans have, well, let’s see… cut communications lines with the South; claimed that the armistice is no longer in effect; claimed that it is ente...
Scaling the Internet and Re-considering Routing: LISP 25 Jan 2013 | 06:28 pm
A new experimental approach to routing on the Internet is maturing. It’s called Locator-Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP), and I am proud to have worked on it with people like Dino Farinacci, Vin...
When is a Fine Excessive? 13 Jan 2013 | 04:21 pm
CNN has an interesting story about a Christian organization that is seeking to avoid fines for not providing coverage for the “Day After” pill or (I think) RU-486. Let us not argue about birth contro...
Smart Watches and wristbands: who is watching the watches? 12 Jan 2013 | 07:44 pm
Over the last few weeks a number of stories have appeared about new “wearable” technology that has the means to track you and your children. NBC News has a comparison of several “Smart Watches” that ...
Mark Crispin: 1956 – 2012 8 Jan 2013 | 03:35 pm
Mark Crispin passed away on the 28th of December. While I didn’t know him well, Mark was a very important visionary in the area of Internet applications, and Email and character sets in particular. I ...
Securing domain names: what’s it take? 3 Jan 2013 | 04:58 pm
When you see a URL like http://www.ofcourseimright.com, your computer needs to convert the domain name “www.ofcourseimright.com” to and IP address like 62.12.173.114. As with everything else on the ...
