Communicating in a networked world
I wrote about this - a few months ago in “Are hungry searchbots eating your site alive?” - but the saga continues! I need a rescue mission, so please will someone send in the SWAT team?[Geek warning—this post is really for geeks only]Here’s the short … [Continue reading]
The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge will contain a unique new suspension span when it opens in 2013. Its tower began to rise above the horizon of Yerba Buena Island a few months ago. In this photo you can see three of the existing suspension span … [Continue reading]
Much as my best days are those on which I “learn a lot,” I find that some of my best days are also “totally scattered and almost devoid of billable hours.” In the last three days I’ve probably addressed ten problems for ten different people, and … [Continue reading]
Digital nomads, you can finally and really be the system administrator for your cloud (and other) servers from your iPad. Since December, each time I’ve left town, I have intentionally left my MacBook Pro at home in favor of my iPad. I found that … [Continue reading]
My “toughest” days are those I spend solving some completely intractible technical problem or other — days when I feel like I’m beating my head against a wall and the problem just will not yield to either intelligent analysis or brute force. The … [Continue reading]